The Real Danger in the College Enrollment Downturn

I was having a discussion with a client about some career services challenges when the conversation turned to projections for the 2014 cohort. “One important thing to remember” I said, “is that new enrollments are down, so many of the graduate employment issues we are discussing today are going to self-solve in the near future.” Read more

Going “Old School”

Three days per week, I go to the same restaurant, at the same time and order the same thing for breakfast.  Three days per week, as I am standing in line, the same young “Millennial Girl” comes in and literally cuts to the front of the line to place her order.  I appreciate her tactic; she acts as if she is incredibly hurried and is always talking on her cell phone in an attempt (I believe) to appear  as though she is so absorbed in conversation that there is no possible way she could notice the other five people waiting in line in front of her.  No one ever corrects her, and the server always takes her order with no questions asked.  Bravo Millennial Girl, bravo.

I would never hire her in a million years and I suspect she is not well liked at work.  Why?  She hasn’t any manners.   Read more