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Your Career and You: “Learning…Patience”
As a (now) “professional” teacher doing my thing at Curry College introducing young undergraduate Communication majors and others to my own lifelong career choice/passion of Public Relations, I talk...
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Your Career and You: “Say ‘No’ to Negativity”
I just spent what seems like an eternity with someone who has, without doubt, the most negative approach to life of anyone I’ve run into in my entire life. We’re talking serious “no…unh-unh…no way.” By...
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“Your Career and You: Reflections”
Today is one of those days that, thankfully, comes just once a year…my birthday. I’ve endured enough of these days that the excitement of childhood occasions has faded away. This particular birthday,...
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Your Career and You: “Think Out of the Box!”
Sometimes I’m thrown for a loop by questions I’m asked by my students at Curry College, where I ride herd over the Communication Department’s Public Relations Concentration. You’d think, after ten...
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Your Career and You: “Tomorrow…It Begins…Again”
I’m sitting here looking out at a magnificently miserable day and thinking back on the year that is in its final days. For the most part, good memories, with a few “challenges” thrown in just to keep...
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Your Career and You: “Are You a Leader…or Just ‘In Charge’?”
A couple of recent actions (or, more correctly, inactions) got me to thinking about the difference between a leader and someone who has been put in charge of an activity. To say that I personally was...
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Your Career and You: “Oppurtunity and Common Since”
Two things that I try to help my students understand at Curry College, where I head our Communication Department’s Public Relations Concentration, are (a) that there are any number of great entry-level...
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Your Career and You: “Plan Ahead…The Future Is Now”
It’s a well-worn “rut”…with the new year comes, for many students at Curry College, where I head our Communication Department’s Public Relations Concentration, the final semester of their studies...
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Your Career and You: “Making Connections…Connecting Dots”
I love it that my students at Curry College, where I head our undergrad Public Relations Concentration and teach most of the PR courses, are starting to explore internship and job possibilities…without...
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Your Career and You: “Do Your Homework and Choose Carefully”
Events of the past few weeks here in the Boston area have reminded me of one important thing as you start out on your search for either your first adventure in your chosen profession or the next step...
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Your Career and You: “Inspiration”
For anyone who may have noticed, I’ve been kind of quiet on “Your Career and You” for a couple of months. Lot of “stuff” going on both personally and professionally, and as blues legend B.B. King would...
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Your Career and You: “Nothing’s Perfect, Little Girl”
I read a terrific post on PR Daily recently entitled “8 Fundamental Truths about Public Relations” by Christina Nicholson that got me to thinking about all the things I pass on to students at Curry...
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Your Career and You: “Public Relations and Ironing Clothes”
It’s Sunday morning, and I’ve just wrapped up the first set of tasks that I’ve inherited over the past 40-plus years of married life, one of which is ironing clothes. I actually enjoy this chore, and I...
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Your Career and You: “Good Housekeeping = Good PR”
In one of my previous lives as a public relations practitioner, I developed an odd (to my co-workers) habit of stopping on the way to my office to pick up stray bits of paper in the parking lot and...
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Your Career and You: “Life and ‘Overloads’”
I’ve been doing something recently that doesn’t come naturally…never has, so “progress” will be interesting to measure. Apparently I’m genetically incapable of saying “no,” and I occasionally (aka:...
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Your Career and You: “Bumps in the Road”
I spend a lot of time in my “rah-rah” mode…encouraging others (students, friends, professional colleagues) that “everything will work out…just hang in there.” And then I crawl back into the deep, dark...
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Your Career and You: “Decisions…The Fork in the Road”
One of my favorite topics…life’s choices. I spent an all-too-brief time with a former student/good friend a few days ago catching up on “stuff” and talking about “life.” She has been studying for her...
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Your Career and You: “The Rollercoaster Called ‘Life’”
The past several months have been “less than optimal” on my side of the world. There have been some more-than-appreciated “ups”…accompanied by what is starting to seem like an increasing number of...
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Your Career and You: “You’re Not In This Alone”
Part of my “other duties as assigned” at Curry College where I head up our Communication Department‘s Public Relations Concentration is being available to students for advice and counsel. I do this...
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Your Career and You: “Who Should You Trust?”
“Fake news” is the topic du jour these days. What’s true? What’s false? Who can you trust to assure you it’s true or false? I love it, in my Introduction to Mass Communication classes at Curry College,...
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