Millennials in the job market: implications for organizational communication

I give a lot of thought to how I can best prepare my Millennial students for the world of work.
The other side of the coin is this: how can organizations best prepare to recruit and retain Millennials to fill the massive void that will be created when Baby Boomers retire?
Millennials ascending. Born between 1982 and 2000, [...]

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Over 13,000 have viewed this blog and gone on to lead normal lives

More With Les is one year old today.
It was January 23, 2007. I worked late in a hotel room in Richmond, Virginia, with WordPress to create this blog. I was speaking at a conference of the Virginia Commission for the Arts. That audience was the first to know that I was beginning my blog to learn more about social [...]

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Spring semester 2008: the career prep begins

It’s a beautiful and serene snowy day here in Vienna, Virginia. Looking out my home office window at the falling snow, it is hard to believe that Spring semester begins January 28.
I’ll be teaching a new class (new for me anyway) — Principles of Strategic Public Relations and Integrated Communication. Towson’s 200-level Principles course is the [...]

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A voice from the past

An old man sleeps with his conscience at night,
A young boy sleeps with his dreams.
                                 –John Prine
It’s Friday night. I feel sad. I can’t say why really, just that feeling of melancholy that comes over people my age at times.  Too many years, too many miles, too many things. Baggage, I guess.
I thought I’d check email [...]

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Nothing says “American History” like a Mount Vernon shot glass

We have a family friend visiting us while on sabbatical from Tulane University. We took her to Mount Vernon today to show her George Washington’s home. It’s a wonderful half-day historical excursion if you’re ever in the Washington, D.C. area.
Being that the place is lovingly restored and open to the public in honor of the first [...]

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Bad-ass biker chicks eschew Harleys, get Education degrees, and bring a new ethos to the classroom

Well, not really. But…… 
According to a Washington Post article Monday, December 31, 2007, more and more educators are using YouTube to reach people.  The list of universities doing this reads like a Who’s Who: Berkeley, MIT, Johns Hopkins, George Mason, American University, to name only a few from the Post article.
The trick here is that anything [...]

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