I am proud to lead a team of talented career professionals committed to building skills for today – and instilling pride for life. Bringing together creative, collaborative, and analytical strengths from my diverse background as a large-company marketing director, small-firm entrepreneur, and executive recruiter, I created my own encore career to help students find their place after graduation. As a onetime English major, I advocate for student attainment of both career-readiness competencies and a liberal arts foundation.
In addition, as the primary career liaison to the College of Arts and Sciences, I help students understand and apply the lifelong value of their liberal arts skills to pursue a meaningful career. Bringing an insider's perspective of a longtime executive recruiter, entrepreneur, and marketing executive-and a personal liberal arts background-I teach students how to connect the dots. Our Seekers career exploration group for Arts and Sciences majors and the rapidly expanding Widener Works externship program, which matches students with alumni for job and graduate program shadows, are particular points of pride. I also oversee student learning assessment for our office.
As a lifelong learner, I recently completed Widener's doctoral program (EdD) in higher education leadership. I am a certified Myers-Briggs practitioner and a fellow of Leadership Philadelphia.
StrengthsFinder: Achiever | Strategic | Learner | Individualization | Intellection
MBTI: INTJ
National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), National Blog Contributor; Eastern Association of Colleges and Employers (EACE), Outcomes & Assessment Committee; American College Personnel Association (ACPA), Commission on Career Development
The Experience MORE! program helps financially support students who need summer break to work and earn money. The program instead makes it possible for them to do unpaid or low-paid internships that will help prepare them for rewarding careers.
Students often turn down or turn away from unpaid internships in their fields because of economic considerations. A new, donor-funded program is designed to help overcome the financial barrier.
Exciting improvements to the Office of Student Success will empower students to thrive in all settings: indoors or outdoors, on campus or off, in person or virtually.
As the university resumes the spring semester through digital learning and working environments, Career Design and Development transitioned online to offer virtual support and programming.
Widener has piloted VMock, an artificial intelligence-based résumé evaluating software, to help students in their job searches.
Widener recently shared outcomes from the 2024 undergraduate class via the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Janet Long, executive director of Widener's Career Design and Development office, and communications studies alumnus Anthony Pompilii '24 are quoted.
In part two of this blog series, Janet Long, executive director of the Office of Career Design and Development, continues to explore the internal and external factors that signal the need for a career change. This blog also mentions a course taught by Susan Schaming, associate professor and director of Graduate Counselor Education and Home School Visitor Programs.
In part one of this blog series, Janet Long, executive director of the Office of Career Design and Development, writes about how employees can recognize the signs and stages of a career shift.
Janet Long, executive director of Career Design & Development, has been named to a two-year term as co-chair of the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Liberal Arts Affinity Group.
NACE is the leading professional association for more than 13,000 higher education career services and industry recruiting partners. With more than 300 members nationwide, the Liberal Arts Affinity Group coordinates programming that showcases best practices in career readiness and employment market awareness for liberal arts students.
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