Description
Facilitate externship placement for all certificate program students, assist all graduates with procurement of employment, oversee all efforts relating to externship and job placement to ensure positive placement outcomes; evaluate and develop career services staff on a consistent basis.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Develop and implement plans and strategies to achieve graduate employment goals.
- Attend new student orientations to discuss and present the role of PMI's Career Services Department.
- Update database of employers / externship sites with all new opportunities, as well as externship placements and job placement information.
- Monitor ongoing externship and graduate placement efforts provided by all Career Services Advisors; assist Advisors with externship placement, as required.
- Ensure every new site is qualified, following ABHES/PMI standards, and all necessary paperwork is complete prior to any student commencing externship with the site.
- Communicate externship requirements to students prior to externship and ensure all externship requirements are met before externship commences.
- Provide job placement assistance, as necessary, for all not-yet-placed graduates.
- Counsel and assist new and current extern and graduate students with job-related issues.
- Counsel Career Services staff to ensure student success.
- Collaborate with campus staff and faculty to resolve student concerns with externship and graduate placement.
- Conduct site visits to ensure student progress via Mid-term Evaluations.
- Assist with exit interviews with all students upon completion of their externship.
- Conduct job search workshops to assist and train students with networking, resume and cover letter writing, on-line job searches, soft skills and interviewing techniques.
- Assist with coordination of certification testing for graduates.
- Generate ABHES Graduate and Employer Surveys and compile data for benefit of Advisory Boards, PMI Education Department and reporting requirements.
- Maintain Clinical Extern Affiliate Surveys (questions completed by Site Supervisors on annual survey). Summarize survey results and follow up with participants.
- Maintain Student Externship Surveys (completed by all Certificate students at their Exit Interview immediately following externship). Summarize survey results and follow up with participants.
- Generate follow-up calls, e-mails, texts, to all not-yet-placed graduates to ensure ongoing contact and update of graduates' employment information in database.
- Maintain current data and generate reports to monitor externship and job placement statistics and ongoing progress; prepare job trend analysis and surveys.
- Coordinate Advisory Board meetings, including entry of requisite data in employer database; select new members for the Board and work with Faculty Coordinator to facilitate meetings.
- Coordinate and attend Job / Career Fairs, and externship site and agency appreciation events; participate in campus and off-campus events, including graduation and marketing events.
- Conduct weekly site visits for the express purpose of enhancing existing relationships with employers / sites and establishing new partnership opportunities.
- Serve as a liaison between PMI students and clinics, hospitals, laboratories and medical facilities for the purpose of establishing and continuing ongoing partnerships with extern sites and employers.
- Complete preliminary performance evaluations for all Career Services Advisors (Campus Director to review, sign off and forward to Human Resources) and counsel Career Services staff with job-related issues.
- Monitor work of all Career Services team members to ensure minimum 70% placement rate in all programs.
The list of essential functions is not exhaustive and may be supplemented. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree preferred.
- Minimum three (3) years of recruiting/placement, marketing, public relations and/or teaching experience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Computer and word processing skills
- Networking skills
- Any equivalent combination of training, education or experience that meets the minimum qualifications.
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