On Youth, Age, and Community Service
This past Thursday, I happened to be driving in the afternoon. As I typically do when I’m driving, I tuned into NPR. “Tell Me More” was on, and I caught part of the conversation on President Obama’s proposal to regulate home health care workers.
This is not a political post, nor is it one on home health care. One of the guests was a lady by the name of Nicole Lee, who hired a home care worker for her father after he was diagnosed with lung cancer.
What particularly fascinated me was when Ms. Lee, when talking about her father who passed away at the age of 71, referred to him as a “young man.” She talked about how he was very active, and needed someone who could keep up with him.
And I thought, “That’s incredible, to refer to someone in their 70s as ‘young.’ ”
A Search for Identity … Whither Public Relations?
Guest post by Kirk Hazlett, APR, Fellow PRSA
I stumbled into the field of public relations some 40-plus years ago so …
The obvious … and first … response is “a lot.” After all, when I was a public affairs intern working for the US Army a million years ago, a remarkable piece of technology appeared that made it possible to transmit the written word via a telephone line to remote and exotic locales. Yes, I was alive and kicking when the fax machine altered the way in which we communicated!
But then I get serious with those who truly are interested and say that, in terms of objectives and strategies, nothing has changed.
Our objective for a client or employer remains the same.
Build awareness … foster mutual understanding … inspire behavioral change.
New Year’s Resolutions for Job Seekers [Redux]
This post originally ran on Dec. 2, 2010. Waxing UnLyrical is on its holiday break, so we’re re-running this post since it might still be useful to you. And we hope you had a terrific holiday weekend!
Are you planning to add job seeking to your list of New Year’s resolutions?
I’ve been both sides of the interview table quite a bit.
But probably the time that I did the most interviewing was at my last job.
I was trying to build up a really well-rounded in-house communication team encompassing a range of communication disciplines, both internal and external.
Since said “last job” was for the oldest animal welfare organization in the United States, you’ll understand that we were rarely short of applicants.
