Career Services Associate

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Conducts employer and job development sales activities such as employer calls and site visits.
• Meets 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.
• Coordinates and supervises the externship process and provides midterm review to increase extern to hire opportunity.
• Administers all externship presentations.
• Supports the monitoring of attendance and performance of the student on externship.
• Monitors graduates as they complete licensure to maintain connections and provide support 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

• Associate's 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook, and master proprietary software used to maintain student records.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to walk. The employee is occasionally required to stand and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Pay

The starting pay range for this position is $24.00-$27.00 per hour.