Youth Career Advisor

Our purpose (Why We Exist) is to keep our region a great place to do business, work and live.
The individual in this position helps people get a job, keep a job, or get a better job. The Youth Career Advisor provides professional advice to customers who want job search guidance, career advice, or placement. They will work to evaluate a customer’s background, training, and education to help develop realistic career goals.

• Conducts outreach and recruitment of youth customers.
• Manages customers in their career exploration, including:

• Developing a relationship with the customer,
• Actively listen to determine customers’ employment-related wants and needs,
• Identifying skills and abilities,
• Evaluating their past work experience, as it relates to current goals, and
• Conducting thorough assessments to identify customers’ strengths and address challenges.
• Collaborate to establish short and long-term employment and career goals.
• Conducts and maintains contacts with community organizations for the purpose of outreach, recruitment, and positive public relations.
• Leverage external and system resources to achieve the most effective outcomes.
• Advocates for the customer and provides other resources and contacts, when Workforce Solutions cannot meet the customer’s needs.
• Provide ongoing communication to ensure customer’s needs are met and maintains contact with the individual to coach and support, recognize benchmarks, and achieve goals.
• Helps customers access other services and resources they may want or need, including Workforce Solutions’ financial aid.
• Provide professional employment-related counseling and advice about local labor market information, career exploration tools, resources, and job search.
• Facilitate career events, presentations, and workshops associated with resume writing, interviewing skills, networking, and industry research

Experience

Required

• 4 year(s): Four years of experience working at Workforce Solutions and a recommendation from current or most recent supervisor

Education

Required

• High School or better

Preferred

• Bachelors or better in Business Administration or related field

Licenses & Certifications

Required

• Driver's License

Skills

Required

• Compassion
• Active Listening

Behaviors

Required

• Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
• Enthusiastic: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest

Motivations

Required

• Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help
• Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)