Career Advisor - Rockdale

Company Description

We help job seekers and career changers prepare for and advance in careers with a focus on sustainable, high‑growth, high‑demand industries. Our committed and well‑trained workforce professionals deliver comprehensive workforce solutions at integrated career centers, sector‑focused centers and community and partner sites.

• Manages a caseload of participants and provides 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; provides case management to customers at the appropriate level
• Displays the ability to work with a variety of cultures, languages, educational and economic backgrounds in a classroom setting
• Always coordinates individual instruction in an orderly and professional manner
• Improves the job readiness score of students in workshops and delivers a pipeline of work‑ready customers to staff
• Introduces company and other tools in the classroom (Resume‑Pro, Company Academy, General Education Diploma Academy, Money‑Skill, Project Chief Executive Officer)
• Ensures that individual participants complete and turn in assignments as scheduled
• Conducts follow‑up outreach to students not engaged in classroom activities and documents efforts in program issues systems
• Maintains student assessments in files and student database
• Works well in teams, business customers and other staff
• Communicates effectively, both orally and in writing
• Performs additional duties as assigned

• Related associate degree from an accredited university or college, or equivalent work experience
• 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
• Valid driver’s license in good standing and automobile insurance

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Position pays $21.50 hourly.

Location:

Conyers, GA.

Associate

Full‑time

Business Development

Individual and Family Services