Career Advisor/Career Coach/Talent Development Specialist

Job Title:  Career Advisor, Career Coach, Talent Development Specialist

Indianapolis, IN

ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

 Manages a caseload of participants and provides work readiness counseling and mentoring

 Assesses participant competencies, work history, educational attainment, skills and abilities; identifies challenges to finding employment and prompts them to find solutions

 Conducts regular ongoing individual meetings with participants for job search, education, job retention, and/or job readiness

 Completes an individualized overview of available services and works with participant to create an employment plan for short- and long-term goals

 Maintains information about area resources and employers

 Ensures participant accountability and attendance; tracks and maintains employment retention goals

 Provides government agencies with prompt notification that a participant has lost or reduced hours of employment

 Maintains scheduled, periodic contact with participants in a variety of locations to assess job retention/advancement issues

 Provides information to participants on available training and/or jobs that will lead to advancement

 Assumes central responsibility for participants achieving self-sufficiency by monitoring progress throughout the program cycle, beginning with referral and continuing through retention and advancement efforts

 Prepares, organizes, and maintains accurate, updated information in both electronic and paper participant files reflecting the entire history of a program participant including log of supportive services issued

 Provides case management with a focus on helping customers to prepare for employment that leads to self-sufficiency

 Facilitates customer access to training, education, and to employment services, as well as job-specific information; provide case management to customers at the appropriate level

Qualifications:

 Associate’s degree from an accredited university or college, or 12 months of related work experience

 Excellent verbal and written communication skills

 Demonstrated customer service skills

 Familiarity with the communities being served, with knowledge and understanding of local needs and resources

 One to three years’ experience in workforce development or related programs preferred

Job Title:  Career Advisor, Career Coach, Talent Development Specialist

Indianapolis, IN

ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

 Manages a caseload of participants and provides work readiness counseling and mentoring

 Assesses participant competencies, work history, educational attainment, skills and abilities; identifies challenges to finding employment and prompts them to find solutions

 Conducts regular ongoing individual meetings with participants for job search, education, job retention, and/or job readiness

 Completes an individualized overview of available services and works with participant to create an employment plan for short- and long-term goals

 Maintains information about area resources and employers

 Ensures participant accountability and attendance; tracks and maintains employment retention goals

 Provides government agencies with prompt notification that a participant has lost or reduced hours of employment

 Maintains scheduled, periodic contact with participants in a variety of locations to assess job retention/advancement issues

 Provides information to participants on available training and/or jobs that will lead to advancement

 Assumes central responsibility for participants achieving self-sufficiency by monitoring progress throughout the program cycle, beginning with referral and continuing through retention and advancement efforts

 Prepares, organizes, and maintains accurate, updated information in both electronic and paper participant files reflecting the entire history of a program participant including log of supportive services issued

 Provides case management with a focus on helping customers to prepare for employment that leads to self-sufficiency

 Facilitates customer access to training, education, and to employment services, as well as job-specific information; provide case management to customers at the appropriate level

Qualifications:

 Associate’s degree from an accredited university or college, or 12 months of related work experience

 Excellent verbal and written communication skills

 Demonstrated customer service skills

 Familiarity with the communities being served, with knowledge and understanding of local needs and resources

 One to three years’ experience in workforce development or related programs preferred