Youth Career Advisor (1880)

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.

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.

2 years of work experience in case management, workforce development, youth services, and/or career coaching. Preferred: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.