Details
Posted: 23-Jun-22
Location: Oneonta, New York
Type: Full Time
Required Education: 4 Year Degree
Additional Information:
2 openings available.
Description: Reporting to the Director of Career Development, the Career Coach supports FlightPath—Hartwick College’s future-focused approach to liberal arts education and embedded career-development—programs, services, and events that help students prepare for their careers. The Career Coach serves the diverse career needs of students and recent alumni. Key activities include providing one-on-one career advising with an assigned portfolio of students as part of a larger Guidance Team (which includes a Success Coach, Academic Advisor and Alumni Mentor as a minimum), program development, and campus engagement as needed. May also hire, train, and supervisor one student ambassador, who will assist with various administrative tasks and student/alumni outreach.
Responsibilities
- Provides a wide array of direct individual career advising to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as alumni less than five years removed from the college. Includes both in-person and online appointments, feature discussions on digital resume and cover letter development, internship and real-world work placement, job search strategies, utilization of the TrueBlue Connect (PeopleGrove) and Handshake platforms, social media profile reviews, mock interviews, career assessments, networking strategies, graduate school application process, and other career-related topics.
- Collaborate regularly with other staff members to ensure advising practices are streamlined and well informed.
- Will participate in resume/cover letter drop-in hours and also provide assistance to masters’ level students.
- Assigned to help vulnerable and underserved student populations in support of inclusion efforts. This relationship will include meetings with appropriate representatives, creation of special programs, and continual communications throughout the year.
- Work with various constituencies on campus to raise student awareness of and utilization of Career Development Center offerings.
- Present career-related content in classrooms, and work with campus partners to support FlightPath, which can include recruiting alumni for classroom presentations/industry panels as well.
- Participate in counseling roundtables to maintain professional development in the counseling area. Will pursue other avenues of professional development related to trends in career advising.
- Will support employer related activities and events of Alumni Relations and College Advancement. Responsible for recruiting students, developing training materials, attending on- and off-campus events, and assisting with post-event survey efforts. Will also assist with planning logistics and organizing event materials, as needed.
- Participate in significant campus activities including: Welcome Weekend, Convocation, True Blue Weekend, Commencement Weekend, and Career Fair Expo.
- The Career Development Coach must comply with all applicable College, federal, state, local and associational regulations.
- As a representative of the College, the Career Development Coach must comport oneself in a professional manner at all times, both on and off campus.
- Will perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications: Minimum requirements for this position are a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university with one to three years of experience in higher education, business administration, or a related field. Must have a clean driving record, valid driver’s license and be insurable by the College.
- Experience working with confidential information.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- High level of interpersonal skills is absolutely necessary.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Windows based computer software and Adobe Acrobat Professional required.
- Proficiency with Microsoft software (Word, Excel, Office, Access and Power Point), and Google Suite.
- Strong proofreading, writing and organizational skills.
- Working knowledge of Handshake and PeopleGrove platforms are a plus.
- This position could require overnight travel and occasional evening and weekend commitments.
- All employees are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to the start of employment.
