James Braden        Office    206-524-8464      bradenconsulting@comcast.net

Hello,
    Here's short video message by me for an Introductory Business class DSL or Cable. Not something I'm used to doing, but it was fun. At least it gives you a chance to see me and hear my voice.

    This is my own short biography and I hope to read each of  your biographies on the student profiles page. I've been teaching Introductory Business, Human Relations, Human Resource Management and Career Planning Courses at community colleges for over twenty years. After a brief stint of teaching junior high school, I returned to graduate school and completed a Masters Degree while holding a teaching assistantship at Central Washington University. After completing my Masters, I spent several years in a doctoral program/graduate assistantship at Florida State U. then taught briefly in Human Relations at the University of Illinois, Urbana before returning to Seattle.
    In addition to teaching, I've worked on 100 %  Commission as a Personnel Recruiter from 1977-1997 then ran my own one man recruiting business from 1997-2002. I guess that qualifies me as a risk taker, so understand how you might be feeling, if you're contemplating changes in your own life by continuing your education, or as a person returning to school.
    Both careers have been satisfying and kept me busy, but lately I have limited myself to teaching which gives me more time to pursue other interests. (And occasionally teach those quarters with 30 hours of classes on multiple campuses!)  However, I found the time and energy to remodel (I can do everything but braze copper!) an older home in Northeast Seattle and turn it into a comfortable (and paid off) home/duplex. Most of my tenants have been University students so I've enjoyed continued interactions with young individuals on the home front, as well as in my academic life. I've been able to put my business knowledge to practical use to enhance my own security and hope to share much of that knowledge with all of you.
    I maintain close relations with family and love to travel. So far, I've been to parts of  Europe, Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica,  most places in the USA and Hawaii and look forward to more traveling in the future.
     I thoroughly enjoy my face to face interactions with students, but this new technology is also interesting to me so have changed and grown with the times, as I believe each of you is doing or you wouldn't be adventurously trying this new format for learning. So Welcome Aboard! Let's all learn together, from one another!

                                                                                    Jim