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Talkin' 'bout my generation
NIHRA welcomes the following new members: Cassandra Rosene, Stillwater Hospice; Eric Bowser, Edward Jones; Miriam Posluszny, McGohan Brabender and Benita Foster, Rolls Royce.
Board Member Spotlight featuring: Sarah Weiss, Sponsorship Director.
Member Spotlight featuring: Lisa Bresley, 111 Design.
Lindsay Boccardo, Lindsay Boccardo Training & Coaching who will be hosting our November 16th Zoom Webinar, Every Generation Matters.
Generation Z weighs in on their 1) dream job and 2) what they expect from employers.
We'd like to welcome the following new members Cassandra Rosine Stillwater Hospice, eric Bowser, edward Jones, miriam Puzz-Lucny, mcgowan Brae-Bander and Benita Foster from Rolls Royce.
Speaker 2:Nira 2024 live webinar October 26, 10 to 11 am. With Zoom, we will spend an hour getting to know the candidates for our Board of Directors election so that you are able to vote for those that you feel will best represent and serve in 2024. As time allows, we will also preview just a portion of the amazing speaker and event lineup that we have for 2024. You will have the opportunity to jump in the chat and ask questions to be presented to our candidates as well. So come prepared Now plan to attend Nira 2024 live webinar October 26, 10 to 11 am.
Speaker 1:Today we will be featuring Sarah Weiss, our partnership director, to introduce herself. Sarah, welcome to the program. Tell us about yourself and what Nira means to you.
Speaker 3:Thanks, Mike, for having me on. I'm excited about the program because we're going to have some great changes. But for partnership, what we're looking towards doing is developing an option and opportunity to increase outreach and exposure for these partners more than they've ever experienced before with Nira.
Speaker 1:So what's your vision for the sponsorship and can you tell our listeners anything about upcoming changes?
Speaker 3:My vision is to create year round engaged partnerships and, for the changes we're going to have various partnership options and increase exposure and opportunities. More options than in previous years.
Speaker 1:So, sarah, some sponsors may not be happy with increased costs. What does the Nira board intend to do with the extra money?
Speaker 3:So what we intend to do is, with the different categories of partnership, we actually are looking to have them more exposed on social media, even on the Nira podcast on our website, have them featured in more events than maybe just one or two, so that way they can have more bang for their buck, more opportunities for those products and services that they have to be featured.
Speaker 1:Great, anything else you want to share with our listeners?
Speaker 3:Yes, with this new partnership levels, we're looking to increase the quality of speakers, the conference quality, the new types of events that we're going to have, very different than 2023 and before. So I really do believe in this. I know that the partners will be so ecstatic to see these changes because it benefits them and Nira and the members so much.
Speaker 1:Well, thanks for your time today, Sarah.
Speaker 3:Yes, thank you so much for having me on.
Speaker 4:Mark your calendars for an exciting event from Disrupt HR Fort Wayne on October 26, from 6pm to 8pm at Bergstaff Place, 2020 East Washington Boulevard. Disrupt HR is like nothing you have ever seen unless, of course, you have attended a previous Disrupt HR event. We all have challenges. Whether you are a seasoned HR professional, brand new to HR, an HR department of one, a small business owner that gets the pleasure of adding HR to their job description, or you are a leader that manages people, the challenges are real. The best way to overcome challenges is to think of new and innovative ways to tackle them. Now imagine hearing these new ideas from experts that have been there, done that and succeeded.
Speaker 4:This event is different from most others you have attended. We will have 12 to 14 speakers each speaking for just five minutes, teaching and inspiring us quickly. We have appetizers available for you to enjoy and there will be a cash bar planned now to attend. You can register at nyraorg for Disrupt HR Fort Wayne on October 26, from 6pm to 8pm at Bergstaff Place, 2020 East Washington Boulevard, hope to see you there.
Speaker 5:Hi everyone, this is Anne. Today, I have a member spotlight with Nyra, and I have joining us today Lisa Bresley. She's an HR manager with 111 Design. Hi, lisa, hi, how are you Good? Thank you so much for your willingness to be a part of the member spotlight. Absolutely Thank you for having me.
Speaker 5:So, lisa, with Nyra, how long have you been a member? I've been a member with Nyra since 2021. Okay, so a little recent, but long enough to have probably had the opportunity to attend some luncheons. Oh, yeah, absolutely, I try to go anytime we have them. They're very, very valuable. Great, lisa, are you a SHIR member as well? I am. I've been since. I think it's been about since 2015 or 2016 that I've been a SHIR member. Great, that is great. A few years then? Definitely yeah, it has been a while.
Speaker 5:I did it through my master's program, so I wanted to make sure I was getting as much out of that as possible, so being a SHIR member was just a no-brainer. Yeah, that's awesome. So, lisa, we're excited to hear about why you chose the human resources profession. Yeah, so I think the main reason that I chose this profession was just to be an advocate for the employee. I had worked for a company several years ago that was just blatantly discriminating against employees, and one employee in particular was just too afraid to confront the HR department because they felt that it wouldn't do any good and that just really broke my heart. So I guess I switched gears and I just went back to school and received my master's in human resources management, just because I want employees to feel that they have a safe place to come in times of need.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 5:That's Great that you had that experience to kind of open your perspective, like you said, on ways that you can continuously improve in your workplace. Lisa, I'm curious were you in human resources prior to that experience? I wasn't. That's actually what started the whole process. It wasn't until probably 2017, I believe it was when I actually got my first true HR job, and I was working out in Washington DC at the time, and I worked for a transportation consulting company out there and I was the HR administrator for them. Okay, so some similar past that kind of correlated with that experience as well? Yeah, absolutely so.
Speaker 5:We all have experienced some of the rewarding but yet challenging aspects of human resources. What can you tell us, though, that you enjoy the most about it? It's always changing. You never have one day that's the same. I think we all kind of walk in to the day thinking, okay, how many fires need to be put out today? So everyone can kind of relate to that and also maybe call it cliche, but I really do enjoy the people. There's just something about connecting with employees and getting to know them and what makes them tick, even the stubborn ones. I think that makes it fun and challenging at the same time. That is true for sure. We have to have some drive in us to want to work with people. That's pretty much the foundation of it, and then, of course, there's all the other aspects, but you touched on this a little bit, but please enlighten us even more on what aspects of HR you feel have really changed over the last few years, or just over the years. Sure, I think for me personally, the one that stands out the most is just HR's role with mental health.
Speaker 5:Covid really catapulted mental health to the top of HR's focus. For the organization that I worked for at the time, this is a really big learning curve for us. We went from 100 percent in office to 100 percent remote in a matter of days. We had offices across the country, so we really had to pivot and try to quickly understand the changing needs and concerns of our employees. The big question was how can we support them during this difficult and unpredictable time? We started by implementing a mental health segment during our monthly team meetings. We made sure to connect with each individual employee periodically just to ensure that they were doing okay and that they felt supported. We also opened our calendars just to let employees schedule weekly meetings with us so they could talk about whatever it was that they wanted Didn't have to be work related, it could be anything personal going on. A lot of our employees were here on we called them secondments but they were here from the UK for maybe words of two to five years, and so a lot of them were by themselves. They didn't have their family, so that made it even more important for us to reach out and really connect with them and make sure that they were doing okay. We also put a lot more focus on our employee assistance program too and the benefits that it provided.
Speaker 5:Just really one of the biggest takeaways for me was that no one's mental health journey was the same. It just makes it increasingly important that organizations help eliminate the stigma surrounding mental health, increase awareness and provide resources to employees so that they feel supported in that journey. That's awesome. I love that you shared this. I think that we can all agree on that. It's been a really important aspect that's changed and probably just surfaced, and I think it even more so now as well. Definitely thanks for sharing that, lisa. I think that's important for all of us to hear. It's really great that your organization took a proactive approach. I know several organizations still struggle with that, so that certainly might be great that you share that and you could possibly be a great networking connection for someone that needs some guidance or just some stories on how to get that started. For sure, yeah, always happy to help.
Speaker 5:What do you consider to be the most beneficial experience about being a NIRRA member? I think, hands down, it's the community. There's a lot of days where I question if I know what I'm doing and if it's right. Before, I was always afraid to ask questions, just thinking that I should already know the answer. Come to find out that there's a lot of us out there that deal with the same things. Just being able to lean on one another for advice and encouragement has been really comforting. I'm so happy to hear that. I think it's great just to hear that from others. I agree, it's a beneficial support to have with all of those that are in NIRRA and in the community, like you said.
Speaker 5:I have, of course, some hopefully fun questions for you. Sure, if you could choose one song to play every time you walked into a room for the rest of your life, what song would you choose and why I chose? I Want to Dance with Somebody by Whitney Houston. It's my hype song. It really gets me going, excited for the day and really you just can't help but literally dance to it when you hear it. So that's definitely the one for sure. That's for sure. That's kind of like a classic one, right? Yeah, absolutely. What about superpowers? Would you?
Speaker 5:choose any superpower, which one would you choose and why? Yeah, this is kind of a tough one, because I think maybe the ability to teleport would be kind of cool, just because sometimes I don't love to travel, so if I could get there as quick as possible, that'd be great. But also the ability to read minds, but selectively do so, just because I don't need to know everything that someone's thinking, because that's probably scary and weird, but it would just be really helpful in some situations. You know, like maybe trying to understand what my boss is thinking, sometimes Like a little snippet, right, not too much, but just enough. Yeah, just give me a little bit so I know where to go. Yeah, those are great. Those are, I think, some common superpowers that we all feel would be very helpful in time.
Speaker 5:Sure, yeah, lisa, would you like to share with us what you enjoy doing in your free time or some hobbies that you like to participate in? Yeah, really, in my free time I spend a lot of time with my husband. We have three cats that we adore. They are our children right now, so just love them to pieces. But I also enjoy cross stitching. I enjoy golfing, even though I'm not great at it. Still a lot of fun, don't like to take it too seriously, and we also like to go antiquing and just like trying new restaurants, especially in the Fort Wayne area, with how much Fort Wayne has grown over the past several years. Ok, are you willing to share what the most recent restaurant you tried was? I think the most recent one. I know it's been around for a little bit, but it was Mercado. Went there for my birthday and it was amazing, so I recommend it highly. Ok, yeah, nice.
Speaker 5:So, as far as Niagara goes, do you have a favorite or most memorable speaker at one of our monthly luncheons? Or I just took another quick look at what we have lined up for the rest of the year and I'm like, wow, is there one coming up that you feel, oh, this one's probably going to be memorable? Either way, who would you like to share and why do you feel they were most memorable? Yeah, I think the one so far that stuck out to me the most is Jeff Nishwitz. I hope I pronounced that right. He did a monthly luncheon on snow globe leadership and I just felt that that was super inspiring. You know, I think he did a really great job of giving us all tips and tricks to help kind of shift the mindsets of leadership just to do better for their employees, and so that's a lot of what he said I tried to put into practice here at 111 Design, you know, and it's challenging at times, but I definitely think it's been beneficial. That was a good one. I was do recall that one was there and that was just a very memorable one, and I liked how Jeff kind of, like you said, shifted your. What you're thinking is like, take a minute to just think yeah, I agree, so great Thanks for sharing that, sure, and which one you felt was memorable.
Speaker 5:So, lisa, do you have any encouraging words for someone that is listening in or maybe considering to join Naira? Yeah, you know, my question is what are you waiting for? You know, seriously, naira is just such a great community of HR professionals. Everyone is willing to help one another out. You know there's no such thing as a stupid question and you know we all like to have a lot of fun, so it's definitely worth it, awesome. Well, I thank you for sharing those words and encouragement and hopefully that really, you know, maybe pushes someone to find out more if they're curious. So thank you so much, lisa. I also want to thank you again to for today for participating in our member spotlight. It's been great chatting with you and learning about your journey. Yeah, thanks so much. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1:Today we'd like to welcome Lindsay Bacardo, who will be hosting our November 16th Zoom webinar. Every Generation Matters. Lindsay is the owner of Lindsay Bacardo Training and Coaching as a nationally recognized millennial expert. Groups from across the country lean on Lindsay to help their teams work better together. With four generations of employees in the workforce right now, leaders are looking for new ways to help their organizations stand out, recruit, retain and engage the talent on their teams. That's where Lindsay comes in. She speaks to groups, large and small, coaches their top talent and provides real, actionable solutions for creating success in a multi-generational workplace. Welcome to the program, lindsay.
Speaker 9:Thanks for having me, Mike. I'm excited to be here with you.
Speaker 1:So you'll be hosting our Zoom webinar. Can you give our listeners a taste of what to expect?
Speaker 9:Yeah, I think this is great because there's a lot of elements when we talk about multi-generations at work. There is a ton that we could talk about. There's 50 rabbit holes we could go down, and one of the most important things for us to do when we're together is to talk about the reasons why we get frustrated with those who are in a different generation than us. Because I found as a coach that until you understand what's happening inside of you when somebody sit across the table, until you are self-aware and you know why you're feeling the way you are, we tend to treat the other person like an other. We tend not to be able to really listen and want to make space to understand them. So the job of this webinar is for us to understand. Why am I frustrated with my older employee, my younger employee, my grandparents, my granddaughter. Why am I frustrated? And that's what we're going to get to the bottom because there's actually a pattern of the types of frustrations that folks have, so once you can identify that, it's a lot easier to move through it.
Speaker 1:That sounds exciting. Yeah, with four different groups of age ranges that are working together right now, there's definitely a wide variety of ways that we enter our daily work in the way that we achieve it.
Speaker 9:You nailed it. That's it. I mean, if you look over the last hundred years of the definition of leadership, of the technological trends, of just what has changed in a single lifetime, you see that depending on when you entered into the world if it was the 80s or the 60s you kind of entered into different worlds and when we come together it's so important to keep in mind everyone's past experiences, their expectations of leaders, their relationship to current technology. You know we've all had unique experiences that lead us to the expectations we have at work.
Speaker 1:Agreed. Well, we look forward to your upcoming webcast. So I've heard that you're a musician. Can you tell us about that and how to join the band?
Speaker 9:Oh, my goodness, I would love to. So I am a musician, I'm a drummer and I just, I like to hit things with sticks, mike, I don't know what else to say. It's my jam, I like to play along. You know, it doesn't matter if it's Joan Jett or modern music, or music that doesn't even have drums on there. Let's find the rhythm, let's find the pattern together. I love it, and what we did was we took my love for music, but ultimately my love for practicing music, and created a type of training around that.
Speaker 9:So this is what I've learned as a drummer there's moments that you have on stage where you're, you know, doing the razzle, dazzle, you're making this beautiful moment, but the truth is you spend 10 more amount of time. You spent way more time getting ready for that moment behind the scenes, behind the curtain, and sometimes with leadership skills. I find that we go to trainings. Or we go to, you know, a webinar just like this one, or we go to one training and we think, well, certainly after I hear these big ideas, I'm going to implement them all and be a totally different leader on the other end and we all know that's not true.
Speaker 9:So the purpose of practicewithlindsaycom is for leaders to come pull the curtain back, get behind the curtain and practice their skills with other people. Break down listening, coaching, setting goals, public speaking, even storytelling all these skills that we need. Break them into smaller, bite-sized pieces that you can practice with colleagues behind the scenes. So, when the moment comes and it's time to step on stage and leave the meeting or give the feedback, you've practiced the skills to be able to do that. Well, once you are actually on stage as a leader, and because I find so often that we kind of stumble into scenarios and relationships and difficult conversations we just we weren't even really ready for, so practice. Withlindsay is a place where leaders come to safely practice their emotional intelligence.
Speaker 1:That sounds exciting. And how did you say people could, could participate or join the band.
Speaker 9:Yeah, you just go to practicewithlindsaycom.
Speaker 1:Okay, great.
Speaker 9:And all the information's there in the band We've got, you know, we've got band practice. I wish I could say it was in the garage. I had, you know, Coca-Cola's for everybody. But, very similar We've got. We've got band practice once a month together, man, and that's what we do. We practice for 30 minutes. We practice one specific skill so you can take it to the stage that month and do it in real time with your team.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's great. So tell us about the porch.
Speaker 9:Okay, so the porch.
Speaker 9:I started the porch during COVID because, when everything started to shift, I thought certainly there's got to be somebody who's more prepared than me for what's happening right now.
Speaker 9:And I felt what if I went and found leaders who are focused in the emotional intelligence kind of sphere of growth, that they're the type of leaders that are always looking to understand neuroscience, understand relationships, understand relational dynamics? What if I could just interview them while we're all sitting in our homes during COVID, so that as we listen to them, they're really mentoring us and helping us grow, despite the fact that we're all isolated? And so that's why I began the porch. The porch is meant to be a casual conversation, just like you'd have with your neighbor on your front porch, where we've got incredible leaders sharing their life stories, what they've learned, mentoring us and how we can grow, so that we have these opportunities to build teams. We also have these mentorship hours under our belt, where we've learned from some of the greatest and we've learned how to shape our perspective differently and how to work together despite differences and all the things that we hope to be as modern day leaders. I go and find those folks and ask them to mentor us for an hour.
Speaker 1:That sounds great. How can our listeners participate in the porch?
Speaker 9:Oh, that's great. You can check it out. It's on YouTube. The recordings are on YouTube, but you can also just if you're a podcast person, like I'm, a podcast girl. I got my list for the week. You can grab it on Apple iTunes. You can grab it on Spotify all the major podcast distribution groups you can go to. So if you just search the porch Lindsay Bacardo, you'll see it pop up and you'll see lots of compelling conversations about the future of leadership from people that have more experience than me, that have a lot of goodness to share. So you should definitely check it out. And when you're walking the dog, when you're cleaning, when you're folding your laundry, it's a great lift, it's a great opportunity.
Speaker 1:Is there anything else you'd like to share about your company and how our listeners might be able to get in touch with you?
Speaker 9:I think the examples you gave are fantastic. My goal is to create a place where we can all connect and grow closer together and create environments where that we look forward to going to on Sunday night, going into Monday. So there's a lot of ways to do that, whether we meet up at the end practice, or you want to sit on the porch with me, or you want to come to this webinar coming up in November. Come and just spend some quality time with us, learn something new about yourself, learn something new about how you can connect with other people. That's my goal. That's my dream is that every time we're together, we get a little bit more self-awareness and a little bit more others awareness.
Speaker 9:We continue to grow as leaders because I'll tell you this generation, right now we have to decide if we're going to keep doing it the way it's always been done or if we're going to be the leader that we didn't have.
Speaker 9:And so I'm standing in that gap, with so many leaders who say, okay, this is what leadership used to be, this is what it needs to be as we look into the future.
Speaker 9:There's a big gap where there's emotional intelligence, skills, self-awareness and just healing from our own past. Those are things that we have to do if we want to lead the next generation. It's a personal challenge to each of us to say will I be the leader I didn't have? I'm going to have to do the work, I'm going to have to put in the practice, I'm going to have to put in the hours. It's humbling to say, ooh, the way I see this may not be the way that future generations see it. Let me really consider that this is an opportunity for all of us to be the leader we never had, and to not lean into seniority, old-fashioned authority and fear to get people to do what we want, but to be the types of leaders that the next generation really wants to follow. And that's going to take a lot of personal growth. I don't think there's any way around it. So that's what I'm excited to continue to inspire leaders to want to do, to be the leader they never had.
Speaker 1:Thank you for your time today, Lindsay.
Speaker 9:You're welcome, Mike. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1:So remember to register for her upcoming Zoom webinar, every Generation Matters, on November 16th from 10 to 11 am at Niraorg. Know why skeletons are so calm? Because nothing gets under their skin. So I'm here at Ivy Tech again today and I am talking to students. I'm asking them some questions. And what is your name? Ethan. Where are you from, ethan? Cherubusco. Okay, great. So what is your dream job?
Speaker 10:I'm not really sure my dream job yet, but I think it'd be like Re-Litter, re-litter.
Speaker 1:Okay, you want to sell places? Huh, All right. So one other question for you what do you want employers to know is important to you? I'd say what's important to me is working hard. Yeah. Like always showing up and doing the right thing. Okay, so that's your perception of how to get the job done right. What about what's important for them to do for you as an employer?
Speaker 10:I'd say just show like support and like give benefits and incentives.
Speaker 1:Okay, great Well, thank you for your time today. Yep have a good one. So what's your name? Zane? All right, I'm going to ask you a couple of questions. What would be your dream job? Um a journeyman electrician. Yeah, yeah, okay. So are you going to stay here in the area? Are you looking to move elsewhere?
Speaker 11:Um, I don't really know right now. I guess wherever the money takes me.
Speaker 1:Okay, hey, I get it, man. So, um, what would you like employers to know is important to you personally? Um my work ethic. Not from expectations of you, but your expectations of employers, to know Like what's important to you as an employee.
Speaker 11:Good benefits. Uh, if I need time off for emergency reasons or whatever, that too.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, great, All right. Well, thank you for joining me today. Thank you for having me. All right, all right, um, what's your name? My name is Emmanuel. Okay, um, what uh is your dream job?
Speaker 7:Um, my dream job is to be a electrician. I don't know what type of something in that field.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you want to be an electrician. So, um, what is important for you to about, like, what type of employer do you want to work for and what kinds of things would you like for them to provide to you as an employee?
Speaker 7:So I would want them to provide like access to like, like to growing more in their trade.
Speaker 8:You know, to see different things and, uh, to get to know people better so you can be better connected to the community and more options, kind of like a networking opportunities, then Okay, great.
Speaker 1:And uh, I think I heard you say like training and development too.
Speaker 7:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, anything else important to you for employers to know? I'm always ready to work. Okay, always ready to work. All right. Well, thank you for your time today.
Speaker 7:Yeah, appreciate it, all right.
Speaker 1:So what's your name?
Speaker 14:My name is Jack.
Speaker 1:And where you go to school Jack Homestead High School Okay, Homestead. So what is your dream job?
Speaker 14:Um, my dream job is to be a mechanical engineer for the Air Force or Army.
Speaker 1:Fantastic, all right. So in going to work for the United States government, uh, what, what do you hope that they will provide to you as an employer? What, what, what kinds of things would you like?
Speaker 14:Um, probably just to be treated like fairly. Um, good, good pay, um pay for my college and stuff, Hopefully, Sure yeah.
Speaker 1:Excellent, all right, well, thank you for your time today. Thank you too. So what's your name? My name is Morgan. Morgan. Okay. So, morgan, where do you go to school? I go, I am homeschooled. Okay, You're homeschooled Um, Morgan. What is?
Speaker 15:your dream job. My dream job is to be a welder and a maintenance worker for certain facilities.
Speaker 1:Okay, a welder and a maintenance worker for whatever facility that you're looking to work for. What type of industry you're hoping to go into? Uh, automotive, automotive yes. Okay, great. Um, what do you hope an employer will provide to you as an employee, or what are your expectations of of employers?
Speaker 15:So I would hope for like a good pay, but also a good home and work balance.
Speaker 1:Okay, what? What does that look like to you? A homework balance?
Speaker 15:So like it would be a good balance between going to work and being able to spend time home with my family and other friends.
Speaker 1:Okay, great Well, thank you for your time today.
Speaker 15:Yes, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1:So what is your name?
Speaker 16:My name is Orion Kellen Ryan, orion Orion, okay.
Speaker 1:Um Orion, um. So, uh, what is your dream job?
Speaker 16:Um, for like to go to college and stuff, it's gonna be CNC programming. Okay.
Speaker 1:CNC programmer.
Speaker 16:But like naturally, it's like an eSports team member because I'm really good in that field and I've already made money off of it.
Speaker 1:Okay, tell us about that, Uh.
Speaker 16:Fortnite. I've played it since it came out. Uh-huh, I've, I'm inside an eSports tournament like eSports org.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 16:It's like a sub for a pro team. Okay awesome, I just want to do that, and if that doesn't go anywhere then it's gonna be a CNC program.
Speaker 1:CNC programmer. Okay, so in going to work for an employer, what is your expectations or what would you like them to provide to you as an incentive for you to come work for them?
Speaker 16:Like a bonus to the job because, like, if I'm, if I'm for the CNC, I've already spent my time trying to learn how to do that before I go Right. And they're gonna be hiring me to help them, uh-huh. So I want some kind of bonus for me to help them.
Speaker 1:So bonus, what else? What are your other expectations for the employer to provide for you as an employee?
Speaker 16:Like what's going on about the job and how it's gonna be out through the day and future, if I'm gonna have to leave you in the future, or am I gonna be like a long-time employee?
Speaker 1:Okay, so you want to um place where you can have a career? Mm-hmm, is that, is that your thoughts? Yeah, Okay, what about any bonuses, or not? Bonuses, but benefits?
Speaker 16:Any certain benefits important to you, like health, reality, health insurance and like dental insurance and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Okay, Health, dental, those kind of things, mm-hmm, Okay. Well, thank you for your time today. Mm-hmm. So what's your name? Uh, mason, jax. Mason, where do you go to school? I go to Cherubuska High School. Okay, so um what is your dream job? Um to become a sports medicine physician. Sports medicine physician. Okay, so in going to that field and going to work, are you gonna work for yourself? You looking to work for an employer?
Speaker 17:What um, I want to work with like a sports team or something like that, okay.
Speaker 1:So you would join an organization or a team? Yeah, so in going to work for them, what is important to you, or what's your expectations of them? To provide you, to get, get you to go work for them directly?
Speaker 17:Um, probably like be like on, like a pro sports, like go to the field and like, whenever something happens, just go out there and help them.
Speaker 1:Okay, sure, but like um, like uh, do you have any certain expectations, like you want them to provide you certain benefits or certain pay, Like what's your, what's your thoughts, what do you want them to know to get you to work for them? Um six figures. I guess Six figures.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, and anything else important to you, um not really. There's no right or wrong answers, it's just really I'm, I'm just kind of broadcasting this to a bunch of HR professionals to let them know what up and up and coming people to the workforce, what, what is important to them, um, and and give them a taste or an understanding, so anything else. I think that's all. All right, thanks for your time. So what's your name? My name is Joey Roy. Joey, where do you go to school? Uh, Cherry Busco High School.
Speaker 1:Okay, so what is your dream job?
Speaker 13:My dream job is to be a police detective one day Police detective, all right.
Speaker 1:So um what interested you in that field?
Speaker 13:Well, I've always wanted to have a job that'd be different every day. I never wanted to have like an office job where I'm nine to five in and out every day. I've always wanted to do something different and I've had some police officers of my life and always been inspired by them.
Speaker 1:Okay, great, and okay, and, and going to work for a police department per se, what? What do you want them to know is important to you in terms of what? What would, what would lure you or motivate you to want to work for them and as opposed to another one?
Speaker 13:Well, payment obviously is the biggest thing. Right Aside from that, like I said, just not always at an office, not always at a desk, out out actually in the field doing things, solving crimes, stuff like that Okay.
Speaker 1:Thanks for your time today, of course. So what's your name?
Speaker 18:Riley Morgan Okay.
Speaker 1:Riley, where do you go to school? Northrop? Okay, northrop. What is your dream job?
Speaker 18:Dream job? Well, I'm planning on going into trade school for engineering. Dream dream job, honestly, would be something like a bricklayer cause. I enjoy building, creating and like sculpting things.
Speaker 1:Okay, fantastic. So what would make you want to work for one employer as opposed to another? What's your expectations for employers?
Speaker 18:A single expectation I have for a main employer would be respectfulness, the ability to actually work with that person, or how well they do their job, Because if I find somebody that's you know, unreliable and the another thing would be being able to work well with others as well. So team scale building and just working together.
Speaker 1:All right, well, thanks for your time today. All right, thank you. What's your name? My name is Alana. Alana, where do you go to school? I go to Snyder High School. Snyder right down the road. Yeah. Awesome. What is your dream job?
Speaker 8:I really don't have a dream job. I would just say a job that makes money for me to take care of my family.
Speaker 1:Okay, so what is your expectation of an employer that you go work for?
Speaker 8:Hard working and probably sociable. Like you know, they're a nice boss. You wouldn't want to be a boss.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you want, you want somebody that's going to work hard and be nice, nice to to to the people that work for them.
Speaker 19:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, great, anything else. No Thanks. All right, I kind of put you on the spot, but thank you. Thank you for your time today. All right, bye-bye, bye. So what's your name?
Speaker 7:My name would be Avari Moore. Okay, where do you go to school? I go to school at Northside High School.
Speaker 1:Northside. All right, what's your dream job?
Speaker 7:My dream job would be to own my own business. You know, be my own boss.
Speaker 1:All right, you want to own your own business and be your own boss. What do you? What do you want to do?
Speaker 7:I want to, like you know, make my own clothing line.
Speaker 1:Oh, nice, Nice. So I'm asking most of the students what do they expect of an employer? But since you're going to own your own business, what are you going to provide to employees to make them want to work for you?
Speaker 7:I want to make sure they're safe doing their job at all times and I just want to, you know, make sure they're comfortable when they're doing their job. Don't want to be too hard on them. All right. I definitely want to make sure they're doing what they post to.
Speaker 1:Sounds good. Thanks for your time today.
Speaker 7:Welcome.
Speaker 1:What's your name, altoff? Where do you go to school? Homestead, homestead. What's your dream job?
Speaker 16:Something in construction. Something in construction Like plumbing or carpentry.
Speaker 1:Plumbing or carpentry. Okay, what? What do you want from an employer? What's your expectations?
Speaker 14:Good attitude, hard work in and just, I guess, be fine with everyone I guess. Okay, Get along that kind of thing yeah.
Speaker 1:Anything else you want to share?
Speaker 14:No, not really. This is cool though, All right.
Speaker 1:thanks for your time. Great. What's your name?
Speaker 12:My name is Caden Kaufman. I go to Columbia City. I'm a senior, all right.
Speaker 1:Okay, so Caden, you go to Columbia City. What is your dream job?
Speaker 12:No, I mean I used to be, I used to want to be an astronaut but realize it's kind of dangerous.
Speaker 1:Sure, yeah, it's out of this world man, yeah, yeah. Literally, but I'm into machining. Now CNC machining. Okay, Like the CNC machining, yeah, so yeah, I know there's a lot of that, certainly in the Warsaw area, right in the medical industry, medical device industry. What's your expectations, or what do you want from an employer to get them to, to get you to want to come work for them?
Speaker 12:I mean, obviously pay is a big part, I mean, but just like an opportunity for the future and get me grown. No, get a good job in the future.
Speaker 1:Okay, anything else you want to share? No, I'm good. All right, thank you. What's your name? My name is Michael. Michael Great name, mine mine as well. So welcome to Mike. Tell me what your dream job would be.
Speaker 20:Honestly, for a while I was a librarian, I've always had books. I always want to. I like reading. I've liked bargain with books.
Speaker 1:Nice, awesome. So you like to read, you like being in that type of environment.
Speaker 20:I held the record for most books checked out for both my age year and the entire school, pretty much the entire time I was in high school.
Speaker 1:Very nice. Where'd you go to high school? Snyder Snyder, okay, very close by, we're at Ivy Tech again today. So you shared your dream job being working for a library. What do you want from an employer to come and work for them? What's your expectations?
Speaker 20:Decent pay for my work is. The big one is I want to be paid enough that I can actually pay bills, afford to live. And then just decent hours, like, just not like you know, working over 40 hours, I don't mind if I have to, I just I don't want to be working like wake up at 430 to go to work at five in the morning, sort of thing.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, so kind of have some work life balance perhaps. Okay, Anything else you want to share with our listeners? Not really. Okay, have a good day. Thanks for your time. What's your name? I am Brady. Oh, brady, where do you go to school? I got a Northrop Northrop. All right, go Bruins. What is your dream job, brady?
Speaker 6:My dream job. I probably have to say either a chef or get on my own restaurant.
Speaker 1:Okay, nice. So you want to be a chef and if you go to work for an employer restaurant per se, what are your expectations of that restaurant or the owner as an employee, do want to go work for them.
Speaker 6:I feel like what I really would like is to have a fair wage and like employers actually respecting me and my time and give me what I need. Okay, if I need time off, great.
Speaker 1:So good pay, good working relationship or respectful work environment and kind of a work life balance type of thing with time off. Yeah, okay, great. Well, thanks for your time today. Uh-huh, what's your name, alex? Alex, where do you go to school? I am homeschooled. Okay, you're homeschooled. What is your dream job, alex? My?
Speaker 22:dream job is to be a full-time welder and a part-time firefighter.
Speaker 1:Okay, Fantastic. So in going to work for an employer as a welder someday, what is your expectation of?
Speaker 22:the employer, just to have a nice work environment and to have the employers treat me like a person actually. Okay, anything else.
Speaker 1:Um, that's pretty much it, alright. Thanks for your time today. Yep, uh, what's your name? My name is.
Speaker 23:Jackson Rodgers.
Speaker 1:Jackson, where do you go to?
Speaker 23:school. Um, I go to a Northrop High School.
Speaker 1:So what is your dream job? My?
Speaker 23:dream job. I envision myself somewhere where it's nice and warm.
Speaker 7:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 23:I'm playing golf all year long and I'm driving a very, very nice Ford GT, customized. I've done everything to it myself. It goes very, very fast, very, very quick and it's got just enough room for my golf clubs.
Speaker 1:Very nice. So what are your expectations of an employer?
Speaker 23:My expectations of an employer. Honesty, honesty, be honest. Okay, that's all I want. Yeah, little bit of honesty. Work with me. I got a difficult schedule sometimes. I'm a two-sport athlete. I mean, it is what it is. Sure, I'm an athletic, it's fun. Yeah, I've just got to do it.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 23:So if I can go into a situation where you're honest with me, I'm honest with you. We're having a very just, normal conversation. You shake my hand afterwards, you say works.
Speaker 14:Sounds good. Yes, see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's all I want. All right, that's all I want. Well, that's pretty easy, exactly, pretty clear definition of an expectation from an employer. It's very simple.
Speaker 23:Yes, but sometimes they just make it so much harder. Right, I asked for uniforms. Yes, two weeks after working at my first automotive job, Uh-huh. Now, I am not bashing my employer at all.
Speaker 1:Right, this is a podcast. You don't have to say the employer's name. I'm not going to Right.
Speaker 23:I didn't even get uniforms. I talked to the uniform guy. I was like, hey, I'm new, can I just get a trial pair of pants and some shorts, or something like that? So I at least have not my own jeans to ruin.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 23:And he's like hell yeah. So I got a pair of pants and a pair of shorts, but the shorts busted.
Speaker 7:Oh geez, it was a you know.
Speaker 23:Going back to my own jeans and boots. Disappointing it was yeah. For sure. Working on a, you know, nice new Porsches, nice new Toyota Supra, stuff like that.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 23:Even like the old Cayman Porsches.
Speaker 1:Wow 9-11s.
Speaker 23:Oh, oh, my goodness. It was fun. It was a blast, and I cannot wait. I'm 18. My ceiling is just growing and my potential is just going through the roof. So fantastic.
Speaker 1:Thank you for your opportunity to be on this podcast. Thanks for your time today. Yeah, what's your name?
Speaker 14:My name's Ion.
Speaker 1:And where do you go to school? I go to school at Homestead High School, homestead, alright. What is your dream job?
Speaker 14:I don't know if it would consider a job or like a career, but like I want to be an NFL player Alright.
Speaker 1:You want to be an NFL player? Alright. Well, let me ask you this then what team do you want to play for?
Speaker 14:I want to play for the. I got some.
Speaker 1:I want to play for the Colts. The Colts, of course.
Speaker 14:The Ravens.
Speaker 1:Ravens.
Speaker 14:Or the Titans.
Speaker 1:Or the Titans, Okay. So what do you want from them as an employer? What do you want them to provide you to want to come play for them?
Speaker 14:Well, like I was saying, a good attitude, of course, right, work on my speed like work at my speed. So like you know what I'm saying yeah, so flexibility there, yeah, yeah, yeah and then yeah, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:That's really it, yeah, Sure yeah, and thank you for your time today, of course. Well, what's your name?
Speaker 24:Wiley Master, and where do you go to school? Northrop.
Speaker 1:Northrop alright, yeah, what's your dream job?
Speaker 24:Actually, it is to be like an online influencer, like YouTube or podcast too. Actually, Alright, is this your?
Speaker 1:first podcast, or have you done it before?
Speaker 24:I've done YouTube videos before, but I haven't really dabbled into podcast yet because of some stuff Nice.
Speaker 1:Okay, cool. So what is your like? Would you do that on your own, or would you go work for another business or employer?
Speaker 24:Well, I do want to do it on my own, but I know people you'd probably need help with it. Uh-huh, like I can get friends and shit in and stuff like that. Yeah and like, but yeah, mostly by myself, but I have had help with, like, friends and family from this.
Speaker 1:Okay, so if you were to go work for an employer, what's important to you, what's your expectations for them to provide, to get you to want to work for them?
Speaker 24:Uh, listening. I would like them to like listen to like what I have to say. I want to want them to be like oh, that what you say doesn't really matter because you're a low ranker. Uh-huh, I want everyone's word to matter the same. Sure, and stuff Like say, like your company has like like bad qualities and like there's problems with the management won't listen to you, right? And stuff like higher ups are corrupt and stuff Like your boss is like, say, like your boss is bad but he's friends with the like supervisor, so anything he does they don't listen. But like the higher, higher ups won't listen to you.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So kind of favoritism you don't want to see favoritism, I don't want everybody to be treated equally.
Speaker 24:Yeah, everyone, I know that, like the boss has to deal with all the bad like stuff like that, but he needs to, like you know, know that he isn't the main one.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, thank you for your time today.
Speaker 24:Yeah, thank, you?
Speaker 1:What's your name?
Speaker 22:My name is Max.
Speaker 1:Max, where you go to school.
Speaker 22:I go to homestead, okay.
Speaker 1:What's your dream job, Max?
Speaker 22:I'd like to do something in the welding field, because that's what I do right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, All right. So you want to weld. So what? What do you want from an employer to come work for them?
Speaker 22:I'd say just like a lot of support. I'd say like if I'm starting off, I'm probably not going to know what I'm doing as much, but I think, as like I further my education and also my experience at the job, I think it would help a lot as an employer just to help, like navigate me through.
Speaker 1:Okay, anything else.
Speaker 22:Uh, no, it's about it.
Speaker 1:Okay, thanks for your time today, max.
Speaker 22:Of course.
Speaker 1:Thank you. What's your name, james? James. Where you go to school Columbia City, columbia City. What's your dream job, james?
Speaker 21:My dream job is to have something more hand-based, and so I've been working on carpentry and also furniture.
Speaker 1:Okay, nice. What do you expect from an employer, or what do you want?
Speaker 21:I expect from an employer to respect that's given. So respect I give you should be returned.
Speaker 1:Okay, so mutual respect. And, james, is there anything else you want from an employer?
Speaker 21:Nothing really much. Um, I am a very big respect type of person and I really care if you're respectful to me and I respect you.
Speaker 1:Okay, so, james, you've been on some other podcasts. Tell me about that.
Speaker 21:Um, I have been on Columbia City High School's main podcast. I completely forget what it's called. It's um, it's 93, uh, no, not 93, 91.7. The radio station Nice. And also I have been on my brother's podcast, which is on Spotify Um a what's that called? Um a Z W rock star, I think Okay.
Speaker 1:What's that podcast about?
Speaker 21:Um, it's a D and D podcast.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay. Dungeons and Dragons All right. Anything else you want to share, James?
Speaker 21:Um, if you got an opportunity for me, I'm willing for to work.
Speaker 1:All right, james, thanks for your time today. What's your name? Jeniah. Jeniah, where do you go to school? Northrop High School. Northrop Go Bruins. What's your dream job?
Speaker 25:Um, I want to go to a midwife school. Be a midwife or a doula.
Speaker 1:Okay, midwife or doula. So in going to work for an employer, what, what, what are your expectations? Or what, what, what do you want from an employer to get you to come work for them?
Speaker 25:Um, I want them to know exactly what they want me to do, like I don't want to want them to tell me like, oh, this is going to be your job discretion but then change it shortly after. I want to know exactly, like, what I'm getting into.
Speaker 1:Okay, anything else you want to add? Um no, that's really all. Okay, thank you for your time today. Thank you. What's your name?
Speaker 26:Uh, my name is Corey.
Speaker 1:Corey. So Corey, where do you go to school?
Speaker 26:I go to Homestead High School, go to.
Speaker 1:Homestead. Okay, corey, what's your dream job?
Speaker 26:Um, my dream job. It's kind of unrealistic, but I would want to be like, uh, like a streamer or content creator. That's a dream job, but that job. I'm going for right now, which I'm happy with, is like welding.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay. So, um, perhaps the being a streamer or a content creator you could do on the side until you get enough, uh, enough business right To make it a full-time gig. So, um well, this is a start, right. Have you been on a podcast before?
Speaker 26:I have not.
Speaker 1:Okay, Fantastic. Well, I'm glad you started with us. Um, uh, tell me what. What is it that you're looking for from an employer to get you to want to come to work for them?
Speaker 26:Um, I always like it when some of my friends or somebody that I know like a familiar face who works there. That would make me a lot more comfortable than being around just like a hundred percent people that I don't know. Okay, um, good benefits, obviously, like insurance. That isn't going to uh, jit me up. I'm just looking out on certain things. Yeah. Like in long-term, if I'm looking to stay there forever, okay, um, and then just a positive work environment. Um, I'd say those are the three most important things for me.
Speaker 1:Great Thanks for your time today, thank, you, what's your?
Speaker 27:name. Hi, my name is Chukuka Williams. I'm a senior. I hope you don't get to buy your tongue, Chukuka Williams, I'm a senior.
Speaker 1:Yes, so where do you go to school?
Speaker 27:I am in Ivy Tech and I'm studying nursing Okay.
Speaker 1:So what's your dream job?
Speaker 27:My dream job is to become a certified nurse. Okay.
Speaker 1:Certified nurse Great To save lives. What led you to want to do that?
Speaker 27:I lost my other brother to autism. I'm from Nigeria and I also lost my dad because of stroke. Um, they didn't get the required medical assistance or knowledge, so to say, it's back then, uh, from Nigeria. When you're sick, instead of taking you to the hospital, they take you to the church, and you keep wondering what would the church do when you're supposed to go for, you know, checkup, medication and all of that. So the reason why I intend to be a nurse is to be able to, you know, sensitize my people the need for medical attention.
Speaker 27:The first thing you're supposed to do when someone is sick is the hospital. Then, when you're done everything medically, you cannot proceed to prayer and ask God for grace, you know, for the medication to work. But my case was different. I lost my brother. He was an autism patient, but the belief was he was infected by the witch's and wizard, and then it was a church, church, church, church. Before you know he died. So I want to clear that impression. That's why I'm going for this nursing to be able to, you know, transfer whatever knowledge I gain here back home, to be able to infect life positively.
Speaker 1:Fantastic. So what are you looking for from an employer? What are your expectations to want to come work for them directly?
Speaker 27:I don't know what applies here because I'm still very new in the States, but for an employer, I would expect you to. You know, carry your workers along. Okay, carry them along, first and foremost, the stage of you getting to know if they are ready or a couple of people will do what you want them to do. But if your job says you have room to train people, I think you should train them to become what you want them to be. And then, if your job says we don't train people, then you have to make sure that they meet up to your standard of employment before you take them. But if your job says we teach people, so open it up to everyone. Teach them so long you are willing to learn. Teach them and build them to become what you want.
Speaker 1:Thank you for your time today.
Speaker 27:Thank you very much.
Speaker 1:So what's your name?
Speaker 19:My name is Ashani Simmons.
Speaker 1:Ashani, nice to meet you.
Speaker 19:Same here.
Speaker 1:So tell me your story. What brings you here today?
Speaker 19:I am here with an employment specialist. Her name is Stephanie and she's awesome. She works for an employment company called Core and they are helping people with disabilities get into a career oriented job. So I am out looking to see. You know what it is. I can find. What can I do? I am visually impaired. I have a prosthetic in my right and I'm totally blind out of my left.
Speaker 1:Okay, so what would be your dream job?
Speaker 19:Well, I would love to be in a position to help people, but I am definitely am to doing something different. Right now. I volunteer over at the League for the Blind and Disabled on South Anthony.
Speaker 1:Nice.
Speaker 19:And I am at the front desk some days, okay. So I like talking to people, love communication, I love learning things. I have an Apple phone, so I have learned how to use that. Being blind, you know asking a few questions from people here and there and then I'll help other people that need help with their phones. If they ask questions, I can give them some answers.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's nice. So what do you want from an employer? To come work for them.
Speaker 19:To look past the fact that I am blind and look at what my capabilities are. Okay.
Speaker 1:Anything else you want to share with our listeners?
Speaker 19:If you have a disability, don't let it hold you back, do not. There is a life with a disability. I am totally blind. I have not been blind all of my life and it took me a long time to get to the point of where I am to be comfortable enough to talk about the fact that I have a disability. But I don't let the disability define me. That is not who I am. I am not disabled. I am Shanice Nicole Simmons, a 47-year-old black woman with four grown young men, and I am out here trying to get back out into the employment sector, and I am not allowing the blindness to hold me down.
Speaker 1:Thank you for your time today, Shanice.
Speaker 19:You are so welcome, thank you.
Speaker 28:What is your name? Yeah, my name is Dylan Cross.
Speaker 1:Dylan, and I see you work for.
Speaker 28:I work at Ivy Tech.
Speaker 1:Ivy Tech.
Speaker 28:I am the apprenticeship program manager here.
Speaker 1:All right, apprenticeship program manager. Tell us about what you do.
Speaker 28:So, yeah, I work a lot directly with students and companies. I work with the building trades and we also have industrial apprenticeships. We work with various companies in the community to meet their needs. Some of the bigger programs we work with are in the industrial realm. So we do a lot of machine tool maintenance programs and we found a lot of success with it, and so have the employers.
Speaker 28:In addition to that, we work closely with the building trades in the area, some off the top here the sheet metal workers, iron workers, bricklayers, the plumbers, electricians, insulators we have already said that one. There's quite a few, but we team up with them so that their apprentices can get an Ivy Tech degree when they're finished, along with getting their journeyman's card. We found a lot of success in that. Those are usually one to five year programs. Some of them end in year four. Most go to between three and five, really. But I work with students, advising them once they get into our programs. I help set up their classes. I do a lot of the paperwork behind the scenes with employers, validating curriculums, getting those signed off on and making sure we keep them on track here while they're at school.
Speaker 1:Great, so this podcast really is featured to HR professionals. How would a company get involved in your program if they were interested?
Speaker 28:So, yeah, any company interested would just reach out to me or my director, shelly Huguenard. From there we would set up a meeting, find out what their needs are. We usually like to involve a floor supervisor in that meeting as well so they can kind of review the curriculum and make sure it's meeting the needs out there on the shop floor, in addition to having someone from HR there. So we have a connection when we have to send over paperwork and things like that. So once we establish what your needs are, we get your curriculum established and then we start more of the meat and potatoes of it. We start reaching out to the apprentices. You want to come to school, we guide them, we counsel them. We do a lot. I like to say it's one-stop shopping and apprenticeship. We handle the enrollment of them, we handle any issues they might have along the way, any hiccups, and it's easier for them too.
Speaker 1:Great. Well, thank you for your time today. And one last thing how would they contact you directly? Do you have a phone number or an email you want to say for our listeners?
Speaker 28:So you can email me at dcross19 at ivtechedu. My number also is 260-480-4291. And I'd be happy to help with any questions you might have.
Speaker 1:Thanks for your time today, Dylan.
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Speaker 1:I'd like to thank all of our guests that we had today. That's all the time we have. See you next time on Mic'd.