Career Center Peer Advisor

# POSITIONS TO WHICH DESCRIPTION APPLIES: 4

PERCENTAGE OF TIME: Campus Hourly or Work-Study

REPORTS TO: Assistant Director

APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 24, 2011

BASIC FUNCTION AND RESPONSIBILITY:

Help students who visit The Career Center achieve career success by providing one-to-one resume advising, facilitating practice interviews, leading workshops, and assisting with a career development course. Increase the Center’s visibility and impact on campus by speaking to student groups, creating new presentations, and completing projects with Center staff members.

CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Conduct Same-Day Session advising regarding resume and cover letter reviews with undergraduate students.
Facilitate mock interviews with students.
Facilitate and co-facilitate workshops on topics such as resumes, HuskyJobs, choosing a major, and internships.
Present information about the Center, upon request, to student organizations, FIGS, residence halls, and other groups.
Participate in campus outreach activities such as staffing informational tables at events.
Occasionally run errands on UW campus.
Provide backup coverage at the front desk; assist with greeting visitors to the Center; answer and direct phone calls, as needed.
Make sure the Center’s lobby, front desk, and storage areas remain organized and clean.
Help out with special events such as career fairs.
Assist Center staff with special projects such as recruiting employer panelists, creating new workshops, producing online workshops, designing bulletin boards, etc.
Complete assigned administrative tasks such as data entry, word processing, photocopying, filing, and processing mail.
Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Undergraduate or graduate student.
Genuine interest in helping fellow students achieve success.
Ability to communicate and connect with students from diverse backgrounds using a friendly and courteous attitude – both in one-to-one settings and group settings.
Comfortable learning career-related information and presenting about it to groups of students.
Capacity for tact, diplomacy, discretion, and confidentiality.
Detail-oriented and conscientious when completing tasks.
Committed to showing up for assigned shifts; reliable and dependable.
Flexible, adaptable, and good team player.
Enthusiasm, motivation, and the ability to take initiative.
Proven leadership, advising, or tutoring experience a plus.
Sense of humor a plus.
Have attended at least three quarters at the UW prior to start date, preferably.

TIME COMMITMENT, TRAINING, AND SALARY:

Must be available 10 to 19.5 hours per week, with significant availability between 10am and 3pm.
Attendance at week-long training in late September prior to autumn term is required.
$9.50 per hour.
Appointment is for the 2011-2012 academic year, with possible extensions through the summer.