About JAZ Consultants
Bob Orndorff, D.Ed.
Dr. Robert Orndorff presides over JAZ Consulting, a consulting and publishing company he founded in 2003. Bob is currently the Special Assistant to the Vice President for Student Affairs at Penn State University. He is also an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Counselor Education. For close to 20 years, Bob worked as a Career Development Specialist in Higher Education and Private Industry. While at Georgetown, Bob's program, The Strategic Job Search, won a national award and was highlighted on Good Morning America. Dr. Orndorff has written and published numerous books and articles in both Career Development and Character Education. Bob was the sole author of a 300-page job-search book, The Unofficial Guide to Finding the Perfect Job, published in 2000 by IDG Books Worldwide, Inc. In 2004, Bob wrote Becoming the Best Me, which became JIST PublishingÕs top-selling character education book. Last year, Bob co-authored The Character Development Scale - an assessment instrument published by JIST. Dr. Orndorff is also a frequent presenter and keynote speaker at regional and national conferences. In 2006, Bob was asked to be one of the keynote speakers along with Richard Bolles (What Color is your Parachute?) at the Job Search Success Conference in Indianapolis. In the Spring of 2007, Bob co-created and delivered career enrichment seminars to Penn State employees at various campus locations across Pennsylvania. Currently, Bob is co-authoring a book, The PITA Principle: How to work with and avoid becoming a Pain In The Ass, to be published in the Summer of 2008. In the State College community, Bob is active as a little league basketball coach and a thought-piece columnist on "Fathering" for the Centre Daily Times.
Dulin Clark, Ph.D.
Dr. Dulin Clark is a lead consultant for JAZ Consulting. Dulin earned his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Pennsylvania State University in 1999 and became licensed as a psychologist in 2000. His work history has included working within the university environment as a student psychologist and career counselor and in the consulting environment as a career consultant with two major outplacement firms. Dr. Clark has held professional positions at University of Delaware, North Carolina State University, University of Pittsburgh, and most recently at Penn State University where he is Associate Director of Counseling and Planning at the Bank of America Career Services Center. He also serves as an Affiliate Assistant Professor in Counseling Psychology at Penn State. His past consulting roles have been with two national level career management firms, Right Management Consultants and Mainstream Access Inc., where he was a career consultant to several Fortune 500 companies. Dulin has worked with clients in multiple industries including financial services, computer hardware, pharmaceuticals, electrical products, telecommunications, higher education, and utilities. He is a versatile consultant in applying psychological principles toward the improvement of employee communications and interpersonal skills. In addition, he heads up the testing and assessment program at the Penn State Career Services Center. In the Spring of 2007, Dr. Clark co-created and delivered career enrichment seminars to Penn State employees at various campus locations across Pennsylvania. Currently, he is co-authoring a book, The PITA Principle: How to work with and avoid becoming a Pain In The Ass, to be published by JIST Publishing in the Summer of 2008. Most recently he was a co-architect of a system to provide comprehensive career counseling services to employees of Penn State University.