What is CareerTime?
CareerTime is an online professional development library for small business owners and their teams, freelancers, and graduating students. It's filled with short lessons designed to advance your professional skills and knowledge as you navigate a competitive business landscape.
With an average lesson length of 15 minutes, you can tackle topics quickly without having to lock yourself away from work for hours.
CareerTime offers a variety of memberships that cater to the needs of specific roles. A membership for a small business owner looks at the professional skills needed to provide leadership and keep a business running smoothly, while a membership for a graduating student focuses on the professional skills that are important when starting a new career.
With an average lesson length of 15 minutes, you can tackle topics quickly without having to lock yourself away from work for hours.
CareerTime offers a variety of memberships that cater to the needs of specific roles. A membership for a small business owner looks at the professional skills needed to provide leadership and keep a business running smoothly, while a membership for a graduating student focuses on the professional skills that are important when starting a new career.
Our Mission
Our mission is to deliver meaningful learning opportunities from our small business to yours.
We do this by:
Our success is tied closely with your success. We have absolutely no interest in trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. CareerTime is meant to provide the professional growth you need to help your business flourish.
We do this by:
- Recognizing the inherent struggles of growing a business while running a business
- Focusing thoughtfully on the professional needs of the small business community
- Collaborating with small business experts to identify knowledge and skill gaps
- Offering budget-friendly, high-value solutions
Our success is tied closely with your success. We have absolutely no interest in trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. CareerTime is meant to provide the professional growth you need to help your business flourish.
Why Choose CareerTime?
Professional development has been shown to provide improved productivity, morale, and performance.
Specifically, focusing on your professional skills can help you to:
At CareerTime, we've been where you are. We know small business because we are a small business. We understand your challenges and your growing pains because we've been through it ourselves.
But more than that, we're good at what we do. Like you, we've devoted an unnatural amount of time to getting our craft just right. We are proud of our work. We are proud of where we're going, and we invite you to join the journey with us.
Specifically, focusing on your professional skills can help you to:
- Communicate better with customers, employees, and the public
- Create more efficiencies in your work processes
- Keep projects on task, on time, and within budget
- Prioritize your time and your most important goals
At CareerTime, we've been where you are. We know small business because we are a small business. We understand your challenges and your growing pains because we've been through it ourselves.
But more than that, we're good at what we do. Like you, we've devoted an unnatural amount of time to getting our craft just right. We are proud of our work. We are proud of where we're going, and we invite you to join the journey with us.
Our CEO's Story
Hi there! Nice to meet you!
I'm Dawn Ferullo - founder and CEO of CareerTime.
I've been in the learning & development industry for a long time—more than 20 years. I started off in a corporate job, designing training courses at Fidelity Investments in 1999. There, I had the great opportunity to "learn the business of learning" while working with an incredibly talented and disciplined team of experts.
I earned my Master’s degree in Management and Organizational Communication from Emerson College in 2002. And in 2003, I branched off on my own professional path to begin freelancing as an instructional designer. Through freelancing, I got a sneak peak inside companies of all shapes and sizes. Talk about a crash course in business! I often felt like a fly on the wall, learning business lessons from great mentors and picking up best practices (and—just as often—what to avoid) along the way.
In 2012, I nervously took the next step in my career and launched The eLearning Company, a custom design and development shop for corporate training. I manage a team of amazing consultants, and together, we create innovative and practical training programs that help employees improve performance and adopt best practices.
In 2020, a year that turned most people's lives upside down and was economically devastating for many small businesses, I fulfilled a dream I've had since the beginning of my professional journey and launched CareerTime. With CareerTime, my goal is to ease the burden of small business owners—who usually need to know and do it all—by providing career-enhancing skills and knowledge for the small business community.
I don't pretend to know everything there is to know about operating small businesses—there is a lot to know. I pull from my own extensive experience, of course, but I also lean on experts and collaborate with fellow small business owners to bring high quality learning opportunities to the community. My philosophy is to keep learning, and keep growing. I believe firmly that every professional experience I've had—and even every misstep—has been a necessary prerequisite for where I am today. I hope you'll join me in the CareerTime community, and let professional development propel you—and your business—to new heights.
I'm Dawn Ferullo - founder and CEO of CareerTime.
I've been in the learning & development industry for a long time—more than 20 years. I started off in a corporate job, designing training courses at Fidelity Investments in 1999. There, I had the great opportunity to "learn the business of learning" while working with an incredibly talented and disciplined team of experts.
I earned my Master’s degree in Management and Organizational Communication from Emerson College in 2002. And in 2003, I branched off on my own professional path to begin freelancing as an instructional designer. Through freelancing, I got a sneak peak inside companies of all shapes and sizes. Talk about a crash course in business! I often felt like a fly on the wall, learning business lessons from great mentors and picking up best practices (and—just as often—what to avoid) along the way.
In 2012, I nervously took the next step in my career and launched The eLearning Company, a custom design and development shop for corporate training. I manage a team of amazing consultants, and together, we create innovative and practical training programs that help employees improve performance and adopt best practices.
In 2020, a year that turned most people's lives upside down and was economically devastating for many small businesses, I fulfilled a dream I've had since the beginning of my professional journey and launched CareerTime. With CareerTime, my goal is to ease the burden of small business owners—who usually need to know and do it all—by providing career-enhancing skills and knowledge for the small business community.
I don't pretend to know everything there is to know about operating small businesses—there is a lot to know. I pull from my own extensive experience, of course, but I also lean on experts and collaborate with fellow small business owners to bring high quality learning opportunities to the community. My philosophy is to keep learning, and keep growing. I believe firmly that every professional experience I've had—and even every misstep—has been a necessary prerequisite for where I am today. I hope you'll join me in the CareerTime community, and let professional development propel you—and your business—to new heights.