Still supporting your adult children? Join the club
Posted On January 10, 2019
Have you helped your adult children with a rent payment since they moved out on their own? Covered their insurance? Helped them pay down their bills or chipped in on a down-payment for a house or car? You’re far from alone. You’re actually in the majority. Nearly 80 percent of parents continue to help their adult children out financially, according to a recent study conducted by Merrill Lynch and shared by CBS News. Ranging from major expenses like weddings and college tuition to everyday expenses like utilities and groceries, parents shell out about $500 billion a year to help their… Read More
Categories: Blog, Generation Y / Millennials, Parenting
Don’t know where you want to be in five years? If you’re a job-seeker, find an answer
Posted On January 9, 2019
The modern workforce is changing. It only makes sense that modern interviewing methods should change too. Common queries about educational background and job skills are being replaced or augmented with behavioral questions designed to determine whether an applicant is a good fit for the company: Can you tell me about a time you had a conflict with a co-worker and how you resolved it? If you had 1,000 emails in your inbox but you could only answer 300, how would you choose which to answer? And a seemingly simple one that today’s generation of college graduates is having an increasingly… Read More
Categories: Blog, What's Working with Cam Marston, Work, Workplace
Communication Styles – Men v Women – THIS WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Posted On January 7, 2019
AL Public Radio – Keeping It Real Communication styles of men v women.
Categories: Keeping It RealUSA’s PREP Program is readying students for the Soft Skills of the Workplace
Posted On January 7, 2019
Handshakes matter. So does eye contact. So does body language. Historically there have not been courses that teach these non-academic workplace necessities. The University of South Alabama’s Mitchell College of Business is changing that through their PREP program. Everything from how to answer “what’s your five year plan,” to how to structure a resume, to how to introduce yourself during your “elevator commercial.” Meet Megan Bennett and Jay Hunt, both of the Mitchell College of Business, and hear how interviews are changing, how companies are finding candidates is changing, and how Megan, Jay and their team are keeping their students… Read More
Categories: Libsyn
Today’s iGen teenagers may be better equipped for the world than we think
Posted On January 7, 2019
You’ve seen the students from Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High on TV since the terrible shooting at their school last spring. Regardless of what you think of the stance they’ve taken on gun control, it’s difficult not to admire the initiative these teenagers have shown in organizing the #NeverAgain movement and the way they’ve handled themselves in the face of harsh criticism after placing themselves in the public eye. Is this what we expected from iGen? Weren’t they supposed to be an even more entitled, self-absorbed bunch of social media addicts than we perceive millennials to be? A recent article… Read More
Categories: Blog, iGen
There are still some human qualities and tasks that technology can’t replace
Posted On January 2, 2019
Advances in technology are affecting, and in many cases disrupting, pretty much every industry. We all rely on computers now in some form or other, and digital tools and automation are transforming the way we do business while performing many jobs once held by humans. What about nursing? We always hear that it is one of the few professions where demand is constant. Could robots or artificial intelligence ever replace the tasks performed by a nurse? Lisa Mestas thinks not. Mestas, Chief Nursing Officer at University of South Alabama Health System and our guest in the latest episode of “What’s… Read More
Categories: Blog, What's Working with Cam Marston