April 6, 2018 LIVE AND LEARN…HIRE AN INTERN! Hiring an intern for your business or organization is a brilliant idea! ADVANTAGES OF INTERNS Interns can be smart, motivated, quick learners (they’re already in school, right?), take instructions well, have limited expectations, and are eager, industrious, hard workers! They are grateful for the work experience, can be inexpensive, and want to impress. An added benefit…interns don’t have years of jaded employment in the workforce with cranky supervisors telling them “You can’t do it that way!” As an employer, you end up with an out-of-the-box thinker who may come up with some pretty unique and productive ideas. On the downside,…
September 22, 2017 IF YOU NEED TO GET SOMETHING DONE… Give it to a busy person! That’s what my mother used to tell me as I was growing up, and again when I worked for her at the printing company she founded in 1977. It was 1982 and I was a freshman at Loyola College in Baltimore (now Loyola University, see, we all grow up sometimes!) and riding my bicycle the 6 miles down Charles Street to Curry Copy Center, serving as part-time bookkeeper several days each week. Junior High and High School-aged Paula used to go to the copy shop on weekends to help collate and staple jobs, and…
