Sometimes when you need a job, everything falls into place.

That is what happened for Rhonda Kline, the owner of Integrity Workforce Connection, or IWC Worker Bees, which she opened this spring in Bayfield.

A longtime paralegal and assistant for attorney Dirk Nelson, she needed a job after he became the city attorney for Durango.

Then her son came home to visit for three months, and people kept calling her, wanting to hire him for odd jobs.

Then his friends asked her if she could find them jobs.

"I was working before I started the business!" she said with a laugh.

She started IWC, a full-service employment agency. She also finds day-to-day staffing for someone moving furniture or doing construction, as well as flexible staffing for short-term projects for a week or month.

"Business has been really good," she said. She opened April 1 and found 12 jobs for five employees in her first month, and by the middle of June she had built the agency to a total of 23 employers with 37 people looking for work and 53 job placements.

She can handle insurance and payroll for the employer, or they can do it themselves, as well. She also wants anyone interested in working full or part-time to come drop off a resume or fill out an application so she can build her roster of potential employees.

A few people said it would be hard to find dependable workers in the area, but Kline said that hasn't been the case.

"We have a good work ethic," the Bayfield resident said. With oil and gas service companies laying off employees, "people are happy to work," she added. "They're eager to work."

Many of her employee clients already work full-time, and they place their information with her to find them part-time work, such as handyman jobs or landscaping.

The few surprises she's had included a wife who yelled at her for finding her husband handyman work that she said was dangerous.

"I wasn't expecting that!" she said.

She also will work with someone who has been out of the jobforce on creating a resume and working on job skills. Volunteering for a local non-profit is a great way to meet people and develop skills, she recommends. It's also a tax decuction.

In the fall, she's planning seminars on finding and keeping work, as well as learning the best way of presenting yourself and your skills to employers.

"I'm trying to be a community asset," she said.

To that end, she is organizing "Building a Better Bayfield," a combination job fair and community open house. It will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 20, at the Pine River Library in Bayfield. Both employment booths and information about local groups and agencies will be free.

For more information on the fair, or to find work or an employee, Kline's office is lated at 375 N. Mountain View Drive, Suite 106. She can be reached at 442-2523.