Career Services Advisor, Senior

University of Southern California•Los Angeles, CA

2d•$76,443 - $100,146

About The Position

Career Services Advisor, Senior USC Marshall School of Business Graduate Career Services Office The Marshall Career Services team, comprised of more than 30 professional staff, and more than 30 undergraduate and graduate student staff, lead the charge to ensure all of Marshall’s approximately 8,200 undergraduate, specialty MS, and MBA students have the support and connections to achieve their professional goals. Our team is currently in a period of change and rallying around a new set of strategic values: Relationship-centered (we prioritize strong relationships with all internal and external stakeholders, especially students) Career-outcome-driven (we connect students to as many opportunities and employers as possible and actively build the networks that lead to employment), Innovative practice (we maintain a current, tech-forward, and competent practice) Team-centered (we value our people and foster a supportive, balanced, and authentic work environment). These values are reshaping how we function as a team and deliver career services. We are thrilled to be recruiting for several roles and are excited to recruit future team members that share our enthusiasm for defining the future of career services and continuing to build Marshall’s reputation as the best business school! The specialized master’s team in Marshall Career Services is looking to recruit an experienced career services professional to join their team as an associate director. The successful candidate will work directly with graduate students, co-designing career workshops, leading group advising sessions and offer one-on-one advising for students. This role also serves as the primary liaison for specific master’s program(s). This position reports to the senior associate director overseeing the specialized masters team.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree
1 year
Related education and experience in counseling and career services and advisement.

Nice To Haves

MBA or master’s degree in Higher Education, Student Affairs, Counseling, Career Counseling, or related discipline
Five or more years of relevant full-time experience
Demonstrated empathy and a good listener for students
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Good presentation skills
Strategic mindset in guiding students through personal development and growth
Experience and understanding in coaching and advising
Strong interest and ability to drive innovation
Willingness to stay current on industry news, hiring trends and global business trends

Responsibilities

Communicates and develops strong working relationships with students from specialized master’s programs, ranging in age/experience from early 20’s to mid-career professionals
Help students build self-awareness, carry out self-analysis, explore career directions, develop job/internship search strategies, and design action plans; determine career advising needs of individuals as well as groups of students
Stay abreast of industry trends and understand functional knowledge, analyze hiring trends and future employment opportunities
Guide students toward appropriate employment opportunities and help them prepare for the challenges and competition students face within a top-tier business school recruitment environment
Co-design career workshops and lead group advising sessions covering a wide range of career education topics, such as career exploration, personal branding, relationship building and networking, resume, LinkedIn, storytelling and interviewing, job search and recruiting preparations, and more
Work as the liaison for the specific specialized master’s program(s), coordinates communications with program office, academic advisor, supports student clubs, and collaborates with business communications professor(s)
Lead, supervise and serve as a resource to student peer coaches, leveraging extensive functional knowledge, and training the peer coaches with coaching mentality
Support networking and hiring events attended by students, alumni and employers; support recruiting process led by employer relations
Gather data on level of student engagement with career services programs and events, evaluate student event engagement levels to determine effectiveness
Gather data on student employment outcome, work as the point of contact with operations team leader and data specialist on compiling program specific outcome report
Work collaboratively with Marshall Career Services staff, faculty, student services and admissions staff