Job 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