Try and hire: Temporary staffing in a run of low unemployment
Posted On November 14, 2018
We have addressed, in previous blogs, how the current low level of unemployment is affecting companies looking to hire new staff. But what about companies whose job it is to provide staff, or recommend new hires, to other companies – temporary staffing agencies? Our guest in the latest episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston” is Liz Freeman, president of Long’s Human Resources, who shares with us how the current economy has affected her temporary staffing business. Freeman says her firm is working a lot more of late with permanent direct placements, where her agency acts as a headhunter of… Read More
Categories: Podcast, What's Working with Cam Marston, Workplace
AL Public Radio – She decided to make her children’s lives harder – Air date: 11/9/18
Posted On November 9, 2018
Keeping It Real Alabama Public Radio Aired 11/9/18
Categories: Keeping It Real
Are millennials killing Hooters too? Not so fast.
Posted On November 7, 2018
Stop me if you’ve heard this, but guys still like eating chicken wings and looking at scantily clad women. Hence, despite what Business Insider would have us believe are millennials’ best efforts, reports of the Hooters restaurant chain’s demise may have been greatly exaggerated. Business Insider, which seems to blame millennials for killing off a different industry every other month, reported last year that Hooters was in trouble. The chain, known for its waitresses and their short shorts and tight, low-cut tops, had seen its U.S. locations decrease more than 7 percent from 2012 to 2016 and sales were stagnant…. Read More
Categories: Generation Y / Millennials
Are we on the verge of a retirement crisis?
Posted On November 4, 2018
Are we on the verge of a retirement crisis? It depends on who you ask. Conflicting reports abound on the state of American retirement plans. Some say we, on average, are looking OK. Others say we aren’t even close to being ready. Wesley Carpenter, a financial planner with Merrill Lynch, offers his take in the latest episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston.” Corporate America has shifted from pensions toward 401k plans – fewer than 20 percent of private sector employers still offer a pension plan, Carpenter says, down from over 60 percent in the early 1980s. That shifts the… Read More
Categories: Retirement, What's Working with Cam Marston
My kids have no idea about the other use of a yard stick. Maybe they should…
Posted On November 1, 2018
Keeping It Real Alabama Public Radio Broadcast November 2, 2018
Categories: Keeping It Real, Parenting, Travel
Millennials are in marriage to win, not divorce
Posted On October 30, 2018
We Generation Xers and Baby Boomers are well attuned to what we perceive as millennial flaws. They’re not good with commitment, we believe. They don’t know how to overcome adversity. They expect things to be handed to them. They don’t do well when conditions in the workplace or in life aren’t what they consider ideal. There’s something else we don’t talk about as much, however, that millennials also don’t do well: divorce. Bloomberg recently cited a study by University of Maryland sociology professor Philip Cohen that showed the divorce rate has dropped 18 percent from 2008 to 2016. What’s more,… Read More
Categories: Generation Y / Millennials
AL Public Radio – Keeping It Real – Middle Age, And What I’m Going To Do About It
Posted On October 26, 2018
Keeping It Real | Alabama Public Radio Broadcast date: 10/26/18 Click on image below to play:
Categories: Keeping It Real
AL Public Radio – Weekly Commentary – 10/19/18
Posted On October 22, 2018
Alabama Public Radio Commentary Air Date: October 19, 2018 Topic: Progress can be defined by how chickens get to your kitchen.
Categories: Keeping It Real, Parenting
Unproductive meetings are a sign of an unproductive workplace
Posted On October 22, 2018
Who likes going to meetings? Not many of us would raise our hands in response to that question. Most of us see meetings as time that would be better spent actually getting some work done. But workplace consultant and executive coach Michael Nash says it doesn’t have to be that way. Nash, who joins us again for another episode of “What’s Working with Cam Marston,” says it really isn’t the meetings themselves we hate, it’s that they aren’t being conducted effectively. Meetings actually serve important functions, Nash says. They allow employees to have face time with their supervisors, and they… Read More
Categories: Podcast, What's Working with Cam Marston, Work, Workplace
Have a child in an organized activity today and you’ll be assigned a day to bring the snacks.
Posted On October 14, 2018
Alabama Public Radio | Friday, October 12, 2018
Categories: Generations, Keeping It Real