TNJ - January 2002 - Feature Story - CareerJournal.com: The Means to a Sound Future

January 2002

CareerJournal.com:
The Means to a Sound Future

By Feona Sharhran Huff

It’s your sincere desire and urgent need to sharpen your skills with some top-notch educational programs, but in your search for a school, you come up empty-handed.

CareerJournal.com, the executive career site of The Wall Street Journal and CE Technologies, an executive education portal, can help. They have joined hands to form the Executive Career Center [ECC] to provide what it takes for professionals to succeed in their careers.

It’s your sincere desire and urgent need to sharpen your skills with some top-notch educational programs, but in your search for a school, you come up empty-handed. CareerJournal.com, the executive career site of The Wall Street Journal and CE Technologies, an executive education portal, can help. They have joined hands to form the Executive Career Center [ECC] to provide what it takes for professionals to succeed in their careers.

“We realize that people need to continue their education,” said Patricia M. Rodeawald, assistant director of career ventures for Dow Jones and Company Inc. “We’ve made it easier for [people] to search for programs that they’re looking for in the location they desire.”

Dan Steneker, CEO of CE Technologies, said that another mission of the ECC is to make the search a time-effective process.

“We’ve assembled all the information into one place people are spending a little amount of time in the search process. [This is especially] important to the small business owners who have a lot to do,” Steneker said.

CE Technologies’ director of educational marketing, Genevieve Ormond, said, “A comprehensive search that may have previously taken days can be done in only seconds. [ECC] Center speeds their search by identifying programs from leading business schools which are directly relevant to their professional interests.”
According to Ormond, executives and corporate human resource managers can save countless hours by enlisting the learning agent to notify them by mail when new programs become available. The programs match with a predetermined profile of business objectives or professional interests.”

Access to ECC can be gained by entering CareerJournal.com’s site as well as through CareerJournalEurope.com and CareerJournalAsia.com.

ECC gives access to 15 of the leading business schools including the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Kellogg/Northwestern, Fuqua/Duke University, London Business School, Carnegie Mellon, Jones/Rice University, and University of Michigan with each school providing an average of 20 programs.

ECC also boasts an executive career profile section that allows perusal of information on the skills and competencies necessary for executive and management careers in varied business areas.

John E. Roche, Ed.D., the associate dean of the School of Continuing Studies at Long Island University-Brooklyn campus, Brooklyn, NY, is all for educational vehicles such as the one ECC is offering but he emphasizes on strengthening one’s skills as the most important thing one can do to improve one’s personal and professional life.

The continuing education expert even likens the necessity of continuing education to the story of two lumberjacks who chopped wood. Lumberjack A and Lumberjack B started off at the same time. But in the process of beginning at the bottom and reaching the top, Lumberjack B took breaks in between while Lumberjack A tirelessly continued chopping away. In the end, lumberjack B finished first and lumberjack A was exhausted and puzzled by his defeat.

The point of the story? Roche said, “You have to sharpen your skills in order to succeed. You have to take time out [for continued education]. People who never get trained end up doing the same thing, the same way.”

“Our students come to us because they are in a job they feel isn’t leading anywhere and they need to sharpen their skills. We’re a training organization that helps them various aspects of their careers.” said Roche.

Educational experts agree that continuing education is necessary in enhancing careers.

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