Overview
The ideal career placement coordinator must have a comprehensive vision of market needs to drive the understanding of hiring needs and employability effectively. The coordinator must study the relevant data about employability and market trends to identify how to implement career development processes and outcomes. The goal is to guarantee that employers see the college as a viable talent pipeline and ensure that students can consistently seek for, source opportunities, and perform optimally while on the job. The coordinator must create and deliver experiential training experiences that are tailored to the different professional fields of the graduating cohorts. In most cases, it’s easier to tailor the programs to fit student needs; however, they must consistently engage with partners or organizations to understand talent needs.
In addition to the above, an annual career fair and facilitate work placements on and off-campus.
Required Background
A bachelor’s degree will be the essential requirement for a Career Placement Coordinator
Interested professionals with approximately 2-3 years in managing educational programs, human resources, talent management with a learning and development focus will be a good fit for the role.
Additionally, business experience and understanding of market and employability trends may give a solid basis for understanding organizational functions and needs.
Required Skills
The Career placement coordinator must have strong interpersonal skills to collaborate internally with their colleagues and externally with organizations that can hire.
Interpersonal skills will also be highly relevant in the interaction with students.
They must also have excellent communication skills because it will help create written instructional materials and deliver training sessions and business development.
In the ever-changing world, there is a need for solid analytic abilities. The officer or manager must evaluate changing trends, workplace needs, processes, and student performance.
They evaluate data to identify how to enhance efficiency, fulfil career development goals, and improve student capacity.
They must have considerable knowledge of the local labour market and hiring trends
Extensive knowledge of how to employ effective marketing techniques.
Knowledge of postsecondary educational organizations.
An understanding of the government approach to employment and labour laws
A strong ability to prioritize and manage multiple workstreams (student- facing and external facing), tasks and projects.
Key Responsibilities
Coordinate career placement for graduating cohorts
Develop, facilitate and lead training sessions on core career placement management skills and mindsets – from resume writing, interviewing and job search strategies to mock interviews.
If applicable, participate in student career development and internship evaluations, run mock interviews, and career coaching or counselling.
If applicable, develop and manage the center’s budget, participate in budget meetings and develop expenditure reports.
Engage in business development to build partnerships and source for internships, apprenticeships, etc.
Coordinate a yearly Career Fair to promote networking between students and employers and serve as a segway for partnerships and job sourcing.
Develop a strategy to market career placement offerings internally with students and externally with potential partners/current partners.
Develop an onboarding process for work-study placements and internships if applicable.
Career Placement Activities
Career Placement Skill Development
To offer value to students while they are in college, the basic support system that can be provided should focus on helping these students develop the basic career management skills through career exploration, resumes & cover letters, internship & job search strategies, personal branding, mock interviews, and networking advice.
Similar to the advisory role, the focus should also be on running-specific training workshops and speaker series to connect students to different approaches and perspectives of the job market and stay tuned to organizational talent needs.
Field Experience: Tours, Co-Ops, Internships or Apprenticeships
The role will also develop relevant relationships with industry players to help students take part in employer-led tours of sites which will provide students with information on the requirements of different jobs. The overall goal will have students make brief worksite visits to spend time with individual workers to learn what their jobs entail.
Additionally, students can participate in unpaid work through the partnerships that have been developed to gear them for specific skill development and integration with school learning through projects or otherwise. Students can also participate in paid work experience with employer partners. This will be similar to the unpaid work scheme; however, the former will be easier to approach as a foundation before scaling up to paid internships. Students can also take up vocational, apprenticeship and work-related classes at school or with organizations that offer hands-on experience.
Please send your CV to justus@wecharity.org the subject of the email should be Career Placement Coordinator.Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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justus@wecharity.org
