Inside Job: When seeking employment, it really is who you know

In 1998, Brian Brown was playing his last year of football at the University of Wyoming and earning some part-time cash at the Laramie First Interstate Bank.

He didn’t have to catch a "Hail Mary" pass to land his first professional job.

Following up on a manager’s praise of Brown, Tom Scott, whose father started the bank, and Ed Garding, its current chief executive, dropped by the Laramie bank and offered Brown a manager-in-training job.

By JAN FALSTAD [email protected]

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