AmeriCorps Career and Employment Planning Assistants

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Serve in the Career and Employment Office to help increase communication about and access to campus resources and support.
• Contact students about how the Career and Employment Office services can help current students plan for individual career paths and securing their first professional job based on their persistence courses at TSC.
• Conducts one-on-one tutoring sessions with students for resume writing, cover letters, job searches, personality assessments, employment referrals, and mock interviews as part of student development at TSC.
• Aid in mapping out incoming student college transfers, shaping current student’s career aspirations, and navigating current student’s post-graduation job placements and student career readiness training.
• Assist in promoting, coordinating, and implementing student engagement events and outreach efforts for student services. E.g., Welcome Week, campus events, conferences, webinars, etc. to disseminate knowledge of college procedures and policies to students.

Measures of the Assignment

• Number of students, with an undecided or undeclared major, who are directly contacted by the AmeriCorps member, visit the Career and Employment Office, and: Persist to end of term or completion of program (short-term outcome)
• Persist to end of term or completion of program (short-term outcome)
• Persist to end of term or completion of program (short-term outcome)
• Persist to end of term or completion of program (short-term outcome)
• Persist to end of term or completion of program (short-term outcome)
• Persist to end of term or completion of program (short-term outcome)
• Persist to end of term or completion of program (short-term outcome)
• Persist to end of term or completion of program (short-term outcome)
• Persist to end of term or completion of program (short-term outcome)
• Persist to end of term or completion of program (short-term outcome)
• Persist to end of term or completion of program (short-term outcome)
• Persist to end of term or completion of program (short-term outcome)

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand.
• The employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.