Career Services Associate

Job Details

Description Summary: In relation to contributing to our college's mission and goals, under the direct supervision of our leadership team, this role provides numerous services that assist students and graduates in obtaining employment. The three major functions of Career Services are Employment, Externship or Certification Track, and Career Services Skill Development, while serving both employers, students, and employers. Associates work with students before graduation to prepare them for the practical application of their skills and entering the job market. Sales standards and metric goals are set for every function of the Career Services role to achieve employment start outcomes through our activity-based management system.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Conducts employer and job development sales activities such as employer calls and site visits.
• Mets and exceeds daily, weekly, and modular activity goals to achieve modular employment start goal.
• Maintains relationships with students and graduates to ensure appropriate interaction with employers.
• Attends business functions, trade shows, and professional organizations’ meetings for networking and employer development.
• Contacts potential sites for the development of new student externship opportunities.
• Carefully coordinates and supervises the externship process and provides midterm review to increase extern to hire opportunity.
• Administers all externship presentations.
• Maintains connections and provides support to graduates as they complete licensure to gain employment.
• Provides support to help students prepare resumes, employment search strategies, and interview techniques.
• Partners with students in job search strategies and coaching that leads to employability.
• Conducts career skill workshops on a variety of career topics like resume, interviewing, professionalism and more.
• Adheres to all compliance and performance standards as it relates to employment start confirmations, metric activities, and student interaction documentation.
• Maintains timely and accurate documentation of physical and electronic records.
• Supports campus goals and initiatives by supporting activities, events, and graduation ceremonies.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Education and/or Experience: Associate degree required, bachelor’s degree preferred. Preferred three years of job development, career services, agency recruiting experience. Required degree(s) must be from institutions accredited by recognized U.S. accrediting agencies. Degrees from non-U.S. institutions are recognized only if equivalence has been established and provided.
• Language Skills – Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos; ability to write simple correspondence; ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to students, employees, and clients.
• Mental Skills – Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to interpret bar graphs.
• Reasoning Ability – Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions; ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Computer Skills – To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook, and master proprietary software used to maintain student records.
• Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Compensation

The starting pay range for this position is $27.00 - $31.00 per hour.

Benefits

Commensurate with experience.