Employment Strategist

**Date Posted**:09/23/2024
**Req ID**: 39816
**Faculty/Division**: UofT Mississauga
**Department**: UTM: Career Centre
**Campus**: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
**Position Number**: 00043478

**Description**:
**About us**:
U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region—is one of the world’s great catalysts of human potential.

Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learning and discovery. We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.

This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside the Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome those who want to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.

**Your opportunity**:
The UTM Career Centre utilizes a student-focused approach to help students develop career management skills that they can use throughout their life. Each teammember contributes, individually and collectively, via their specific role and by supporting others to meet the Centre's overall mission and goals. Under the supervision of the Assistant Director, Career Development Unit, the Employment Strategist will provide employment strategy services to students and recent graduates in individual and group formats.

Your responsibilities will include developing program components to foster students’ individual career development process. Developing content for instructional workshops. Developing learning outcomes for workshops and/or services. Facilitating educational workshops for synchronous or asynchronous delivery. Advising students on job search, industry research and networking strategies, including cover letter, resume and interview preparation. Keeping well-informed on recruitment trends.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Advising students on job search, industry research and networking strategies including cover letter, resume and interview preparation
- Advising and coaching students on work search strategies and skills
- Developing content for instructional workshops
- Developing learning outcomes for workshops and/or services
- Facilitating educational workshops and seminars for asynchronous and synchronous delivery
- Consulting with instructors, administrators and student groups on the development of tailored programming needs
- Researching potential target markets to assist students in employment search planning
- Conducting detailed analysis on program efficiency and student learning outcomes to inform program planning activities

**Essential Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
- Minimum three years in a career-related, human resources or employment recruitment setting.
- Experience providing individual job search advising.
- Experience in program and curriculum development and assessment, including learning outcome development.
- Experience facilitating interactive workshops and providing one to one coaching of students, particularly with resumes, cover letters and interviews.
- Experience working with teams and partners in assessing, developing and providing services.
- Strong experiential background in student transition; particularly, experience working with diverse communities and understanding student issues.
- Intercultural competency awareness and knowledge of theories related to equity, diversity and inclusion; experience working with diverse communities and cultures and an understanding of anti-oppression and equity practices are required.
- Good understanding of university students and recent graduates' career development needs.
- Curriculum development and assessment skills for both in person and virtual delivery.
- Sound presentation, workshop facilitation and public speaking skills; able to adapt to students' and campus partners' needs.
- Strong planning and organizational skills, including time management and prioritization skills, ability to work on multiple tasks in high demand times and attend to details.
- Strong service orientation and oral and written communication skills, especially with a diverse student population.
- Knowledge of employer recruitment practices and trends.
- Tact, discretion, senstivity to confidential matter