Student Career Coach

Position Description

A Career Coach provides Career Management administrative, marketing, social media, and data/analytics support. Additionally, the Career Coach position at USC Upstate allows student workers to gain valuable insight into career preparation, exploration, and connection via Career Services programs, events, and outreach.

• Provide assistance and serve as the front-line contact for walk-in visitors and appointments.
• Answer phone calls, emails, and host minimal office hours to ensure coverage.
• Schedule appointments, communicate in person, email, or on the phone with employers and business partners.
• Assist in inventory management and orderliness of the career closet, including tracking donations and student use.
• Assist students in career closet with clothing selections as needed.
• Assist Upstate students and alumni with resume writing, interview preparation, and job search strategies.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Suggest creative weekly posts about resources, services, and events for IG and FB accounts.
• Once approved by Career Management staff, make weekly updates to IG and FB content.
• Create additional social media campaigns to promote Handshake and build awareness for Big Interview.
• Possess a sensitivity to matters related to diversity and inclusion.
• Assist in content curation for Career Management You Tube channel to ensure relevance and appeal to a broad audience.

• Create promotional materials (i.e., flyers, webpages, designs) to build awareness to students, faculty, parents, and alumni about Career Services’ events, programs, and resources as needed.
• Promote Handshake and other services to campus community through tabling, presentations to student organizations, and individual appointments and drop-ins.

• Assist with distributing and collecting survey responses from students and employers after appointments, presentations, and career events.

• 3.0 GPA or above.
• Ability to think critically and tactfully problem solve.
• Articulate thoughts and ideas in excellent written and oral forms of communication to students, professionals, parents, alumni, staff, and faculty.
• Use of digital technologies to increase student and alumni outreach and awareness of Career Services’ resources and services.
• Engage with campus leaders to build relationships and partnerships.
• Ability to effectively multi-task, problem solve, and work well with other Career Coaches, students, and campus leaders to manage projects.
• Show professionalism through networking and front-line contact.
• Ability to work well autonomously.
• Comfortable with occasional public speaking opportunities.
• Reliable, strong work ethic.
• Must be able to adhere to the work schedule as set by OCM.

This employment site is updated on a regular basis. The length of the recruitment and screening process may vary from position to position, depending upon a variety of factors. Should review of your qualifications result in a decision to pursue your candidacy, you will be contacted by phone or email.

The University of South Carolina does not discriminate in educational or employment opportunities or decisions for qualified persons on the basis of age, ancestry, citizenship status, color, disability, ethnicity, familial status, gender (including transgender), gender identity or expression, genetic information, HIV /AIDs status, military status, national origin, pregnancy (false pregnancy, termination of pregnancy, childbirth, recovery therefrom or related medical conditions, breastfeeding), race, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other bases under federal, state, local law, or regulations.

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• * What is your expected graduation date? (Open Ended Question)
• * What is your current cumulative GPA? (Open Ended Question)
• * Have you worked on-campus before? (Open Ended Question)
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• * Are you currently working another on-campus job? (Open Ended Question)
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