Healthcare Career Placement & Student Job Readiness Specialist

Brookline College • Albuquerque, NM

10d • Onsite

About The Position

Help healthcare students turn their education into a career! Brookline College is looking for a relationship-driven professional who can help healthcare students and graduates prepare for interviews, connect with employers, and secure meaningful employment in their field. This is not a traditional desk-based advising role. You will work directly with students, graduates, healthcare employers, faculty, and campus leaders to move people from the classroom into the workforce. Success includes: Students complete required career-readiness activities on time. Graduates remain engaged throughout the job search. Employer relationships produce qualified interview and hiring opportunities. Externship and clinical experiences convert into employment when possible. Assigned programs meet or exceed graduate employment expectations. Records remain accurate, complete, and ready for reporting or audit.

Requirements

• At least five years of combined experience in career services, recruiting, staffing, workforce development, employer relations, account management, admissions, outreach, or a closely related field.
• At least two years of direct experience in coaching, advising, placement, recruiting, business development, or relationship management.
• The ability to build rapport while still holding students and graduates accountable.
• Strong follow-through and the ability to manage deadlines, competing priorities, and a high-volume caseload.
• Confidence communicating with students, graduates, healthcare employers, faculty, and campus leaders.
• Comfort working with performance metrics, databases, CRM systems, and detailed documentation.

Nice To Haves

• A bachelor’s degree is preferred, but directly relevant experience and demonstrated performance will also be considered.
• Enjoys both coaching people and developing business relationships.
• Gets satisfaction from helping someone land a job.
• Works with urgency and does not wait for candidates or employers to come to them.
• Can balance empathy with accountability.
• Likes measurable goals and knows how to adjust when results fall behind.
• Is comfortable representing the college in the Albuquerque healthcare community.

Responsibilities

• Coach students and graduates on resumes, job-search strategies, interviewing, networking, and professional communication.
• Build relationships with healthcare employers to generate externship-to-hire and direct-hire opportunities.
• Connect graduates with job openings, interviews, hiring events, and employer introductions.
• Lead job-readiness workshops, classroom presentations, mock interviews, and career events.
• Manage a student and graduate caseload, maintain consistent follow-up, and help candidates work through barriers affecting employment.
• Track employer outreach, student engagement, interviews, placements, and employment outcomes in company systems.
• Partner with faculty, campus leadership, and externship teams to improve graduate employment and externship-to-hire results.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision starting the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment
• 2 Weeks’ starting Vacation per year. Increasing based on years of service with the company
• 12 paid Holidays and 2 Floating Holiday
• 401K with a Company Match
• Company Paid Life Insurance at 1x’s your annual salary
• Leadership development and training for career advancement
• Tuition assistance and Forgiveness for you and your family up to 100%, depending on the program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree