Empowering People

The PA Times has launched a career center that will empower college students, adult professionals, and others seeking career advice, scholarship and intern information, online resources, professional support and career trends. Initiated in March, 2005, the career center is being implemented by the PA Times, according to Executive Director, Antoinette Samuel to "Provide readers what they need to begin or enhance their careers in public service" (2005, p.1). The PA Times' new program aimed at empowering those interested in the field of public administration has a brief history, being initiated in March, 2005, and scheduled to be fully operative in multiple formats (newspaper, online, phone support, etc.) by the start of 2006 (Samuel, 2005). Samuel maintains the mission of the PA Times career center is necessary not only to "attract the best and brightest" to the ranks of public service but also to provide the means of "empowering those who wish to begin or advance their careers in public administration" (2005, p. 2).

The mission of the PA Times career center is multidimensional. The mission includes offering information from the organization to help inform those beginning or seeking to advance their public administration careers. The mission also involves featuring a daily column of advice and questions and answers from readers interested in public administration careers, written by public administration profes

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unselors as a tool that will help "enhance careers in public service," according to Samuel (2005, p. 3). The PA Times works in collaboration with some of these professionals who have donated their time, but the professional-oriented publication has also hired career counselors and one public administration professional to oversee implementation and operation of the new career center empowerment program. History of Public Administrators Seeking Empowerment Despite having a number of professional organizations, Web sites and other avenues of information to turn to for assistance, numerous current and would be future public administrators have often sought career advice unsuccessfully due to a lack of services focused on public administration. Without tools or methods of empowerment, current public administrators often stall in their careers or remain unaware of best practices, requirements or methods for advancement. Those who hope to begin their careers as public administrators typically move through conventional career resources from high school and college guidance counselors to public administration personnel recruiters. However, these sources are often inadequate or lack the expertise required to be familiar with all of t

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