Career Counselor & Industry Relations Officer

Job Summary

The Career Counselor & Industry Relations Officer is responsible to guide participants on how to search for and apply to jobs or internships suited for the participants. The coach will also be the liaison point with companies to secure participants an internship.

Summary of Duties & Responsibilities

• Conducting one on one career counseling sessions in person.
• Guiding students through the completion of aptitude, personality, and adjacent tests.
• Scoring students’ responses to pertinent items and conferring with them about the results of these.
• Proposing career-related options that are congruent with your substantiated insights.
• Informing students about potential shortcomings in their skill sets and devising strategies to remedy these.
• Walking students through the process of compiling and restructuring their resumes.
• Pinpointing and informing clients of potentially helpful career-related opportunities.
• Ensuring all students’ skills are shaped in the correct direction towards an income generating opportunity.
• Focal point for companies that will offer internships to students.
• Focal point for interns; following up on their attendance, work and progress within each internship.
• Researching to match the best company/intern contract.
• Preparing and implementing the employers outreach plan, reporting to the project manager the progress of each intern.
• Preparing monthly reports on the progress of the participants, challenges, changes and implementation progress to the project manager.
• Unforeseen tasks may also apply

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Experience in career counseling
• Experience in the digital working field
• People Management – Directing, Motivating, and Directing Others & Managing Diversity

Instructional Expertise – Planning, Presentation Skills, Patience, Time Management, Listening Skills