By Kate Jonuska
Reorganizing your resume, practicing your interview skills and polishing your professional appearance are all vital ways of marketing yourself for a new position or new promotion, but those with true ambition and drive realize that often education and only education can get your foot in the door of your dream office.
“In an intellectual society like ours and a service economy like ours, education becomes a huge benefit to those that have it and a detriment to those that don’t,” says Dr. Ernest Price, provost of the University of the Rockies, a psychology-focused graduate school based in Colorado Springs. “Less than 30 percent of Americans have any degree at all – and that’s a big number – but that means 70 percent don’t. Once you get down to masters and doctoral numbers, which are the programs we offer, it becomes less than 2 percent.”
Among that 2 percent of graduate degrees, Price believes one of the most valuable across many fields is the study of organizational leadership, which is a great extension of the university’s specialization in psychology.
“It’s a great adjunct to the clinical (psychology) program, which is concerned with the ways individuals act and think,” he explains. “But organizational leadership lends itself to those that want to focus within organizations, looking into the minds and behavior of people as a group. It’s analyzes why people and therefore why organizations behave as they do, and then gives you the ability to guide that organization toward its goals.”
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