Mildred L. Culp

Mildred Culp has been writing about the workplace since 1982. Her WorkWise column discusses emerging workplace trends.
WorkWise InteractiveTM helps readers get unstuck and find their way to viable jobs.

Culp holds three WorkWise trademark registrations -- for print, Internet audio and radio. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago.
For Editors
WorkWise features keep readers coming back.
Contact Info
E-mail Dr. Culp: culp@workwise.net

What is WorkWise?

A suite of features addressing the needs of print and online editors in newspapers and newspaper groups seeking outstanding workplace content. These columns and special assignment articles appear in some of the nation's most prestigious publications.

WorkWise (weekly commentary and artwork)
For readers and site visitors with some work experience

WorkWise (1982-present) was first syndicated in 1994 by Passage Media. A classic, it covers emerging trends in the workplace and contains the widest range of HR topics in print today. This column is a staple in business and special sections, in print and online. Check The Modesto Bee for WorkWise.

WorkWise Interactive (Q&A)
For job seekers at any point in their careers

WorkWise Interactive is an information-packed Q&A column about job-finding and job-keeping. Its BlogTips showcase compelling, often humorous insights from experts on topics of all kinds related to employment. This column is featured in business and special sections, in print and online. Fresnobee.com is one of a growing list of clients since the 2004 launch to carry this widely appealing column.

WorkWise Special (new products developed for editors)
For readers with their own specific needs

• This exciting new service for business and classified pages assures the best content the market has to offer. It is selected from the wide range of columns for which the WorkWise suite is known -- emerging trends, on-the-mark job hunting, hot careers, small business and local interest topics. See the variety in tearsheets from The Miami Herald (Pinpoint A Soft Job Market, Bring Agility and Going 'Green') and link to the series known informally as 'Three New Yorkers' in New York's Daily News. Watch for the announcement of a new nursing publication featuring our national and local content exclusively.

What Readers Say

CONTINUITY

"Your article on age discrimination was very informative. You have a great talent for taking a more complicated issue and turning it into useful, practical information."
-K.C., Hartford, Conn.

"I am going to hold on to that career advice for forever."
-B.F., office support, Mobile, Ala.

"Another winning column."
-R.J., Cedar Hill, Tex.

"I enjoy reading your column. It's helped me with a lot of things I've been working on."
-S.A., in transition, Houston, Tex.

"Thoughtful work. Your material is always topically current and insightful."
-G.W., military recruitment executive, Fort Knox, Ky.

INSIGHT

"I read your column in the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle. It is very informative. I am glad that there is such a column to help job seekers."
-Anonymous, San Francisco, Calif.

"I read your article, 'To Young Job Seekers: Tighten Resumes,' with great interest."
-L.N., new grad, Hartford, Conn.

"I present job search programs to two different groups each week. We have eight offices in six counties. I'll share your wonderful information with my co-workers!"
-Judy Greene, workforce strategist, Business Services KV Works Inc., Valparaiso, Ind.

"I enjoyed your recent column because I had an interview that the interviewer didn't know how to end."
-W.D., international transportation job seeker, Munster, Ind.

"Thank you for your comment about not taking a job you know won't work out."

-S.R., administrative assistant

"I read your article on facility management and am looking for a career change. Your article inspired me."
-M.T., career-changer, Dallas, Tex.

BREADTH

"Three huge cheers for your recent article 'Getting the Irritation to Stop,' read in the Post and Courier's Careermarket."
-N.N., hospital laboratory technologist, supervisor and performance improvement coordinator, Charleston, S.C.

"That is stunning advice."
-K.L., friend of a person in hostile work environment

"I will be sharing your article about customer service with some co-workers."

-C.H., customer service, Houston, Tex.

"I was fascinated reading about working with horses to further the team-building goals of an organization."
-Carolyn McMullen, The McMullen Co. Inc., Davis, Calif.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
-L.P., high-tech whistleblower

What Editors Say

"You are a gifted writer."
-Kevin Weaks, writer/producer, STL-TV, St. Louis, Mo.

"Yours are the only career columns we buy. They help enormously."
-Vivian Vega, managing editor, Custom Publishing, KNS Media Group, Knoxville, Tenn.

"I continue to enjoy reading your articles and I am thrilled when I hear readers from our region are sending in questions."
Keith Foreman, employment sales manager, The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Va.

"Thanks for your consistent hard work."
-Matthew Saltanovitz, assistant editor, Business, The Times of Northwest Indiana, Munster, Ind.

"Our managing editor was so thrilled with the WorkWise package that she grabbed it and put it in the early run for Sunday, not realizing it was for publication next week."
-Tom Blount, editor, The High Point Enterprise, High Point, N.C.



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