news brief on Jim’s addition to the Gordon team<\/a> on September 16, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jim Perkovich has been hired by Gordon Electric Supply as the new senior inside account manager. Jim, who is nicknamed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297],"tags":[298,362,315,12,26,11,361,357,359,360],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordoncommunity.com\/gordonblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordoncommunity.com\/gordonblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordoncommunity.com\/gordonblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordoncommunity.com\/gordonblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordoncommunity.com\/gordonblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gordoncommunity.com\/gordonblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/gordoncommunity.com\/gordonblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordoncommunity.com\/gordonblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordoncommunity.com\/gordonblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordoncommunity.com\/gordonblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Jim, who is nicknamed Perk, has worked in the electrical distribution industry for the past 28 years\u2014first as a driver then progressing to inventory management and inside sales. His previous sales positions offered the opportunity to work with some of the largest contractors in the Chicagoland area. He lives in Orland Park and is excited to work locally from the Mokena branch of Gordon. Jim \u201cgladly steps in to help in any capacity,\u201d Mokena branch manager Josh Corson said, adding that \u201cit was the first time I have hired a new employee and received calls from customers saying things like \u2018Perk is my guy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n