• Job Description

  Req#: 224608

  Job Details

  Job Location: LAX CAMPUS - INGLEWOOD, CA

  Position Type: Full Time

  Education Level: High School

  Salary Range: $25.16 - $26.45 Hourly

  Travel Percentage: Up to 25%

  Job Shift: Any

  Job Category: Education

  Description

  Summary

  The Career Services Advisor is responsible for successfully preparing students to find secure, and retain employment, giving them the skills necessary to report this process throughout their careers. This position will work closely with the other department teams such as the Student Services, Education Department, Faculty, other campus and administration. Therefore, the person must have the written and verbal communications skills to constantly update other departments on the progress of students and alumni on an individual and collective basis, and the customer service skills to quickly and professionally resolve problems that could impede career progress.

  Essential Functions

  Student Relationships and Skills Building:

  • Introduce new and continuing students to Career Development and guiding them through the general employment process.
  • Educate prospective students or visitors about the services available and provided in the department.
  • Conduct, maintain and update student records.
  • Coach students individually and in groups on job creative search skills, resume writing, interviewing techniques, etc.
  • Maintain contact with all students within three months of graduation through job placement, with engagement efforts weekly to ensure active placement services.
  • Maintain record in Student Information System of outreach with students.
  • Work closely with pending graduates to ensure the completion of exit requirements are met.

  Alumni Engagement:

  • Maintain regular and consistent contact with alumni.
  • Provide career opportunity counseling for alumni.
  • Communicate job opportunities to students / alumni through flyers, email notifications, text messaging, and verbal alerts as needed.
  • Outreach to alumni daily to maintain contact with graduates seeking positions after graduation.
  • Maintain record in Student Information System of outreach with alumni.
  • Follow up with industry partners on behalf of students / alumni to get updates on interview / job offer status.
  • Establish new employer partnerships for graduate placement.

  Additional Essential functions:

  • Assist with executing campus events; Career Fair, Job Fair, employer visits, class presentations, graduation and other campus events as needed.
  • Perform routine office support duties.
  • Work with Education to support students in testing for their certifications and continuing their education towards more advanced degrees.
  • Assist the Dean of Students with G&E (Graduate and Employment) Tracking, Program Completion Tracking, and yearly accrediting reporting.
  • Complete other duties as assigned by the Dean of Student Affairs / Career Services Manager.

  Knowledge / Skills

  • Motivated by a desire to help people be successful and achieve their goals.
  • Personal track record of success in academics, coaching or counseling preferred as well as a successful track record of staff training and development.
  • Temperament to enjoy and succeed in a high growth company without a rigid work structure.
  • Excellent and polished presentation and communications skills, with ability to maintain open communications with other departments and business functions.
  • Ability to advise in conjunction with coaching as well as problem solving and provide effective feedback.
  • Be a collaborative, effective member of a team and to work with all types of people, to assume facilitator and lead role, and to affect timely submissions from other required.
  • Experience in helping individuals identify strengths and weaknesses, opportunities, and potential trouble situations, and helping guide those individuals toward creating their own action plan for maximum success.
  • Ability to work in metrical, results oriented environment.
  • Effective, efficient, empathetic, energized, and engaging communicator.
  • Temperament to succeed in a performance-based environment in high growth company with “peak volume” periods.
  • Willingness to work weekends and/or early morning or evening hours as required.

  Qualifications

  
  

  Education and Work Experience

  • High School Diploma or GED required.
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred.
  • 2+ years of experience in job development coaching required.
  • Exceptional oral and written communication skills required.
  • Face to face sales experience preferred.

  Certificates, License, Registrations

  • None

  Supervisory Responsibilities

  • None

  Physical Demands

  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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  Work is normally performed in a typical interior/office work environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger; and talk or hear. An incumbent is subject to contact with others, frequent interruptions, noise and student events.

  AAP/EEO Statement

  Spartan College provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Further, the company takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and employees are treated during employment without regard to any of these characteristics. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.

  In keeping with the above conviction, Spartan College is committed to assuring that:

  All recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, and other employment related programs are provided fairly to all persons on an equal opportunity basis without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law;

  Employment decisions are based on the principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action; and all personnel actions such as compensation, benefits, transfers, training, and participation in social and recreational programs are administered without regard to race, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

  Benefits

  401(k) and Employer Match

  Medical insurance

  HSA/FSA

  Dental insurance

  Vision insurance

  Life insurance

  Paid time off

  Employee Assistance Program

  Tuition Reimbursement/Employee Scholarship

  Benefits

  Sick Paid time off

  Tuition Reimbursement/Employee Scholarship

• About the company

  Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology is a for-profit aviation institute in Tulsa, Oklahoma that offers training in aviation, aviation electronics, flight, nondestructive testing, quality control and aircraft maintenance.

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