Career Service Advisor I

Career Service Advisor I

The Career Service Advisor I is responsible for providing externship, job placement guidance, and assistance to graduates of the assigned Dorsey College campus. Coordinates all aspects of the student externship program at the campus including helping students identify an externship site, monitoring students during the externship period, interfacing with employers, and submitting final grades and reports. The Career Service Advisor I also work to develop relationships with area employers to assist in Externship and Job Placement.

Essential functions include conducting an externship meeting with students going out on externship in the module prior to the externship, identifying eligible students to go out on externship in the following module, identifying an externship site for each student and notifying the student in writing, tracking student progress throughout the course of the externship including obtaining regular attendance reports and making site visits each module, computing each student's final grades, preparing a summary report for each extern and ensuring that all required paperwork is completed and uploaded, counseling the student regarding any noted problems and/or referring the problem to the Associate Director and Managing Director for guidance, coordinating and conducting on-site meetings to explain the Career Services process, assisting students with resume writing and cover letters, conducting mock interviews and a Career Services exit interview with each student, communicating professionally and on a regular basis, both verbally and in writing with students and graduates regarding their job search activities, actively contacting employers to develop a working relationship and to identify current employment openings and externship opportunities, selecting and referring appropriately qualified students to available job orders in a timely and professional manner, responding to job order specifications from employers, and recording employer's account record/job orders in the CampusVue database in a timely and accurate manner.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities include exceptional verbal and written communication skills as well as active listening, being reliable, highly motivated, and possessing a positive attitude, strong ability to multi-task with frequent interruptions, ability to work well individually and cooperatively as a team, proficiency with basic office equipment, computers, and computer applications, working knowledge of CampusVue software preferred, ability to travel within 10 miles to assigned locations.

Minimum qualifications include a minimum of an Associate's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience; Bachelor's degree preferred, and previous job development/job placement experience preferred.

Working/physical demands include evening or weekend hours, if necessary, to meet deadlines, position requires long periods of sitting, excellent listening and interpersonal skills and attention to detail, extensive use of office equipment and business systems including personal computer, CampusVue, copier, printer, facsimile, telephone, and postage meter, ability to work autonomously and take initiative, as needed, local travel to campuses or events within the community, and the physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Equal Opportunity Employer. Dorsey College is an Equal Opportunity employer. The College complies with appropriate federal, state, and local laws and provides equal employment opportunities and access to educational programs without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other protected status to all qualified applicants and employees. Dorsey College is committed to a policy of non-discrimination and dedicated to providing a positive discrimination-free educational work environment.