Quinn: When you were little, what did you wanna be when you grew up?
Joe: Footballer. Standard.
Quinn: Where would you have played?
Joe: Attacking midfield.
Quinn: Nice, creative.Who was your role model? I always wanted to be Michael Owen.
Joe: I have a signed picture of him from 2001.
Quinn: I think I probably have the same one!
Joe: Probably Patrick Vieira.
Quinn: When did you become aware that you could do what you do now?
Joe: About a year ago! You’ll get why when we talk about it in a bit.
Quinn: And when did you think “that’s what I want to do”?
Joe: It came out of the blue to be honest, it was something that got offered.
Quinn: How did that come about then?
Joe: I’d just finished my Masters, and around December 2017, Sheffield Hallam offered Apprenticeships out. I took one at Whirlow Farm and one at Hallam Finance. So i was splitting my day week, 3 days up at Whirlow and 2 at Hallam. My days at Whirlow was getting data ready to upload to their new CRM system.
And who was doing Whirlow's CRM system? Arkom.
Quinn: Ha.
Joe: So it involved me having meetings with Al and Gaz, I came down here twice, numerous emails back and forth and speaking to them a lot around the CRM build. So I’d been in contact with them a lot during my 3 month internship.
I was still at Hallam Finance, and I get an email from Al one day saying can we have a meeting with you?
So I came down into the office, Gaz was sat here where I’m sat, Al was sat there and I got offered the job there and then!
All after a random email I got on a Monday afternoon saying can I come in for a general chat!
Joe Rooker now works as Arkom's SharePoint Specialist & 1st Line Support for CRMs. He still loves football and is pretty damn good at darts too.
