CareerEngine, Inc. Partners With 'Five O'Clock Club' National Career Counseling Network; Professional Career Advisors to Offer Counseling on Leading E-Recruiting Site.High Tech & Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2000 CareerEngine, Inc. (a subsidiary of CareerEngine Network, Inc., AMEX/PCX:CNE (Certified NetWare Engineer) See Novell certification. ) today announced it has partnered with The Five O'Clock Club, a nationally renowned career counseling Noun 1. career counseling - counseling on career opportunities counseling, counselling, guidance, counsel, direction - something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action network, to expand CareerEngine's professional development services in key industries and provide career counseling for executives at all levels. Through the alliance, CareerEngine users will gain access to professional Five O'Clock Club career advisors on CareerEngine's IT and Sales job search sites (www.ITClassifieds.com and www.SalesClassifieds.com). The new service will build upon CareerEngine's personal approach to online career search and expand the interactive offerings of the company's "virtual career communities." The career advisors, Jill Abel and Louise DiSclafani, bring to CareerEngine extensive counseling experience on career-related issues. Ms. Abel has been part of the Five O'Clock Club Guild of Career Counselors since 1996, and has served as a consultant to several distance learning companies and Internet start-ups. Her specialties include advising executives on work/life balance issues. Ms. DiSclafani has been a counselor with The Five O'Clock Club since 1994. She is a member of The Five O'Clock Speakers Bureau and has worked in career counseling for more than 20 years. As part of the agreement with CareerEngine, Ms. Abel and Ms. DiSclafani have agreed to raffle off Verb 1. raffle off - dispose of in a lottery; "We raffled off a trip to the Bahamas" raffle gift, present, give - give as a present; make a gift of; "What will you give her for her birthday?" a private one-hour counseling session to job seekers on CareerEngine's ITClassifieds and SalesClassifieds. Under the agreement, job seekers in IT and Sales will have the opportunity to consult with the professional advisors at no cost via e-mail. In addition, a "Take Five" section across CareerEngine sites will offer users career tips and links to articles from The Five O'Clock Club. "Our partnership with a premier career counseling organization furthers CareerEngine's commitment to personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. career development and e-recruitment services," said Tom Ferrara, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of CareerEngine. "Joining with a leading online recruiter enables us to give job seekers greater access to the seasoned advice of our counselors, while enhancing the effectiveness of our career consulting practice, " said Richard Bayer, Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of The Five O'Clock Club. In addition to their ongoing presence on the IT and Sales sites, the Five O'Clock Club career advisors have each agreed to raffle off one free in-person counseling session to job seekers through an email campaign sent to registered users of CareerEngine's Network of category-specific career sites. About CareerEngine, Inc. CareerEngine, Inc. (http://www.CareerEngine.com) operates an Application Service Provider division, CareerEngine Solutions, which builds, hosts and maintains customized career centers for client websites. Utilizing CareerEngine's leadership in e-recruiting, CareerEngine Solutions enables both online and off-line companies to add unique, value-driven services to their websites and affords them an immediate presence in the fast-growing and profitable online recruiting space. Major partners include SmartMoney.com, a joint venture of the Hearst Corporation The Hearst Corporation is a privately-held American-based media conglomerate based in the Hearst Tower in New York City, USA. Founded by William Randolph Hearst as an owner of newspapers, the company's holdings now include a wide variety of media. and Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance & Company. CareerEngine also operates the leading network of vertical career sites, including its flagship sites: ITClassifieds.com, SalesClassifieds.com and AccountingClassifieds.com. CareerEngine's category-specific sites serve as "career portals," offering professional development tools, online career counseling and continuing education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). courses. Headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , CareerEngine offers e-recruiting services to Fortune 1000 companies and has distribution partnerships with leading recruiting firms, which sell the services of CareerEngine's sites. CareerEngine, Inc. is a subsidiary of CareerEngine Network, Inc. About The Five O'Clock Club The Five O'Clock Club (www.fiveoclockclub.com) is America's Premier Career Counseling Network. The Five O'Clock Club provides affordable, state-of-the-art career counseling services directly to individuals and via the corporate market. Services include career counseling seminars through a nationwide network of branches (including the Virtual Branch), and private and small group job-search as well as executive coaching Executive coaching basically refers to bringing about an improvement in the overall personality of an individual for a better outcome professionally. These are like any other coaching classes; the only difference is that they are meant for business executives, entrepreneurs, HR through Five O'Clock Club certified counselors. Certain statements in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. 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