Manage day-to-day operations of a college career services office including serving as the key contact for employers, government officials and college partners. Oversee budget, strategic planning, and program development with an emphasis on student engagement and retention. Member of the College Leadership Team and College Strategic Planning Committee. Develop and create content for a comprehensive list of resources for students and alumni to include resume writing, networking, and interviewing resource guides; a career check list utilized by first- and second-year students; career related workshops and training presentations. Create technology driven solutions to improve delivery of career services; built a fully functioning online office (before the Covid-19 Pandemic) so that students, alumni and community members could access career related resources 24/7.

Facilitate career development, professional presence and first year courses utilizing online learning platform; courses include Career Development Strategies, Communicating Professionalism, Professional Presence, and College Success Strategies.Support adult students in developing short- and long-term career development strategies and goals that emphasize the importance of lifelong learning and flexibility. Emphasis placed on maintaining career marketability, anticipating change, and preparing career contingency plans. Help adult students assess and understand themselves, identifying organizational cultures and determining personal fit, managing and embracing change, and networking.Assist adult students in conducting organizational research, preparing job-search documents, practicing interview and follow-up skills, and negotiating the job offer for positions in their chosen profession. Appointed Subject Matter Expert for redesign of Career Development Strategies course.

Full life-cycle recruitment for SAT and ACT Instructors for a fun, edgy and ground-breaking nation-wide SAT/ACT prep organization; territories include Connecticut, Massachusetts and parts of New York City (Long Island, Queens, Stanton Island and Westchester). Develop pipeline of instructors through email, phone calls and online “check ins”.Utilize behavioral interviewing and Google Hangout to screen and evaluate applicants. Collaborate with client relations team to identify instructor needs, staffing issues and to determine best fit instructor for school partnerships and in-home/online tutoring. Plan and facilitate online training for hired instructors; review best classroom management practices, professionalism, and curriculum review. Build school partnerships throughout the east coast through outreach to faculty and career services staff.Partner with comedy clubs, acting troupes, teacher associations and use social media to actively recruit passive candidates. Sourced, interviewed, hired, and on-boarded 14 instructors in first 60 days.

Source internship and full-time opportunities through direct solicitation to area employers and recruiters, online job posting sites, LinkedIn, and networking events.Assist students and alumni in identifying workplace and personal values, skills and abilities in order to develop possible career paths. Develop goals and strategies for career exploration and action plan.Assist area companies in establishing internship programs; write internship descriptions. Conduct practice interviews to teach students and alumni appropriate responses to behavioral, traditional and illegal interview questions. Administer and interpret career assessments including the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and the Strong Interest Inventory to help identify students’ and alumni career and work interest areas.Review and edit individual resumes for appropriate content and grammatical errors; ensure resume is tailored to specific internship or job description and skills and experience are properly highlighted.Create and deliver training to students and alumni in all facets of career development including interview, job search, networking, workplace professionalism, personal branding and resume writing skills; design training and presentation materials to incorporate different learning styles to cater to individual needs while enabling collaborative forms of learning. Developed online training curriculum for student employees covering topics of workplace professionalism and customer service, personal safety, and working with difficult situations and conflict resolution.Designed content including workshop topics for student leader conference; content included diversity, computer, cultural, customer service and personal branding training.

Met with internship-site supervisors before and during internship period to assess employer workplace needs, establish employer expectations, develop student learning objectives, and create plan to incorporate the University’s mission and core values into the student’s internship experience. Maintained existing recruiter relationships through site visits, emails, and phone calls. Conducted mid- and end-term site visits to meet with internship supervisors to discuss student’s progress including academic, communication, teamwork, and character skills. Trained SXU employees on computer-based internal job posting system and writing job descriptions.Instructed staff search committees on how to identify skills needed for positions so that committee can determine appropriate candidates from selection pool; taught staff proper interview techniques, legal and illegal interview questions, and interview follow-up procedures.