Description
The Career Peer will guide students through basic career topics, Handshake, and help to market the Career Center office and services to students and departments.
Essential Functions:
- Assist Career Center staff with walk-ins and appointments on campus and/or virtually via Zoom or Teams with resumes, cover letters, and Handshake usage.
- Lead relationships with student campus partners by hosting walk-in hours, creating
- presentations, and facilitating quick questions with peers
- Initiate and deliver at least two presentations per semester on topics such as Resume
- Writing, Getting Started with the Career Center, Finding an Internship, LinkedIn, etc.
- Attend weekly meetings and ongoing training on customer service and different career topics
- Market CC services and upcoming events through social media, word of mouth, student
- organizations, and additional creative marketing ideas
- Build walk-in-in hours traffic to increase visibility – Career Peer will be partially
- responsible for driving traffic to their walk-in hours and increasing visibility
- Attend a mandatory training session a week before the start of the fall semester
Additional Duties:
Career Peers will be responsible for assisting the Career Center staff when needed.
Requirements
- 2.5 GPA
- Rising 2nd Semester Freshman, Sophomore, Junior
- Willingness to learn and build career development skills
- Ability to commit to a full academic year in this position and work at least 10 hours per week
- Work-study eligible
Skills required:
Outgoing, communication, leadership, teamwork, interpersonal, learning/adaptability, self-management, organizational, computer, teamwork, open-mindedness, strong work ethic, problem solver
Candidates must submit an application and resume. Cover letter is optional.
Supervisor: Martha Reed, Director Career Center
Hours per week: 10 plus