Career Mentor

About the role

Looking for a flexible, meaningful student job that will help you build your résumé and professional skills? Career Services is seeking a positive, team-oriented student to serve as a career mentor, support marketing and outreach efforts, present on career-related topics, help with events, and assist with other tasks. Training will be provided.

Responsibilities

• Career Services Front Desk
  • Assist students, employers, and visitors in person, by phone, and through email
  • Review student appointments, employer accounts, and job postings in Handshake
  • Help maintain a welcoming and professional office environment
• Career Mentoring
  • Meet individually with students to help strengthen résumés, cover letters, and interviewing skills
  • Assist students with Handshake and LinkedIn profiles
• Events & Presentations
  • Support Career Services events
  • Help give presentations to groups on career-related topics
  • Assist with marketing and outreach for events, presentations, and other services
• College of Science Projects
  • Conduct internet research and help maintain the science-related database and website info
  • Identify and post science-related jobs and internships
  • Help communicate with science employers and maintain employer information
  • Complete other projects as assigned

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, and presentation skills
• Strong computer skills, comfortable with Microsoft Office including Excel (or equivalent), and able to pick up new technical skills quickly
• Solid project management skills and good attention to detail

To remain eligible for this position, students must:

• Enroll as a full-time student each semester
• Maintain at least a 2.0 GPA
• Submit a FAFSA each year to be considered for Federal Work-Study funding (this requirement does not apply to international students). Students who applied for Federal Work-Study but were not awarded funding are still welcome to apply and may be considered for the position.

Preferred Qualifications

• GPA > 3.0 (higher GPAs strongly preferred)
• Experience with Adobe Create Cloud products, HTML/CSS, SQL, or basic coding is a plus but not required

Schedule

• Up to 20 hours per week with flexible scheduling
• One mandatory one-hour training meeting each week