Career Services Advisor

**Job Summary**

The Career Services Advisor supports the mission, goals, and objectives of the college and career services department. They are responsible for developing relationships with companies within relevant industries that result in placement opportunities for our graduates. Career Services key functions are to assist students to prepare for the workforce in their chosen career field and securing placement opportunities for students with internship. The Career Services Advisor will also be responsible for providing a high level of customer service to active students and graduates. This individual will achieve successful placement rates that exceed accreditation standards and be expected to meet advisor metrics.

**Performance Outcomes**

**Student Success**:

- Achieve 90% placement of your assigned graduates within 90 days of graduation
- Meet all accreditation goals for your assigned students
- Develop, implement, assess, and refine Career Readiness Workshops to engage and coach students early in their academic career
- Ensure students receive the most advanced career & workforce guidance to obtain the practical, productive, and soft skills to be successfully placed
- Identify internship opportunities to meet diploma requirements and professional licensure when applicable
- Proactively provide effective, confidential, individual assistance, and guidance to students in all phases of their career development

**Staff**:

- Promote, motivate, achieve, recognize, and openly acknowledge employee excellence by inspiring others with professionalism, emotional intelligence, effort, results, focus, and trust

**Administrative**:

- Ensure placement statistics, student interactions, new employer relationships, and current employer relationships are truthful, accurate, documented, reported, and kept current in real time - adding notes and updates as appropriate
- Employment accounts are seamlessly established, accurate, and maintained with key industry employment organizations
- Plan, develop, implement, facilitate, assess, and refine career-related programs and projects for faculty, students, and staff
- Participate in classroom Zoom meetings as needed and be flexible when these meetings might rarely occur outside your assigned working hours
- Participate in Open Houses and other student recruitment initiatives

**Organizational**:

- Ensure positive collaborative relationships are established and maintained with faculty, staff, students, alumni, employers, and professional organizations to sustain quality career development and planning programs at Bryan University

**General Duties**
- Support and abide by all rules, regulations, and guidelines of the university, serving as a role model for students and alumni at all times
- Carry out the mission of the Career Services Department
- Represent the Career Services department to students, faculty, program directors, senior officers, employers, and professional organizations
- Provide career counseling and job referrals to assist students with the career development process, including clarifying objectives and obtaining occupational information
- Provide career planning assistance through making Zoom and telephone appointments with students as well as providing online assistance, regularly scheduled group workshops, and live access to Zoom interaction with students and alumni
- Schedule, conduct, critique, and offer feedback on Mock Interviews for students to be better prepared for actual job interviews
- Help students develop and improve workforce readiness skills, communication, & professional etiquette skills to ensure they are able to represent the hiring company as needed
- Provide Career Services information to students in all Ignite sessions as well as regular classes when needed by Program Directors or Faculty
- Provide insights to students on the day-to-day working experience of professionals working in each of the Bryan College academic programs
- Establish and maintain effective and cooperative working relationships with students, alumni, faculty, employers, and the community at large
- Initiate contact with and regularly follow-up with employers to develop new job opportunities and sustain existing feeder relationships with those employers
- Assist students with the career development and planning process, including obtaining information on companies, job outlooks, current opportunities for employment, hiring practices, and making the transition from school to career
- Plan and implement virtual job fairs and inform students of ground-based career fairs related to their academic program and within reasonable driving distance from their home
- Distribute information to students on internships, apprenticeships, volunteerism, and summer job opportunities related to academic programs
- Maintain departmental student files in and ensure e-files are accurate, truthful, and current reflecting up to date activities and conversations - no bulk uploading, a