Medical Assisting Career Services Advisor - MA program - Hybrid!

About the position

As a leading healthcare education organization, Unitek Learning’s family of schools helps thousands of students launch and accelerate their careers every year. As a rapidly growing and highly successful company, Unitek is also a great place to pursue a rewarding and challenging career. We offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, unlimited growth potential, and a collegiate work environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide career advising to current students and graduates.
• Advise participants on job search strategies and the logistics of securing and maintaining a job.
• Generate job leads and meet placement goals.
• Maintain relationships with externship sites and employers to address their staffing solutions and provide follow-up with placements.
• Provide one-on-one employment assistance to both students and graduates.
• Answer student and employer questions regarding the externship, employment, and placement processes.
• Generate employer database through cold calling, mailing, and site visits.
• Responsible for weekly placements goals and employment verification.
• Establish and maintain relationships with extern sites to encourage maximum potential for students to be offered employment upon completion of externship.
• Ensure that the student is prepared to begin the job search process and obtain training related employment by assisting with resume writing, interview techniques, phone skills, networking, and other job search processes.
• Aid students with career preparation concerns throughout their stay at Unitek.
• Maintain accurate student, graduate, and employment records and phone logs.
• Establish a working relationship with existing and new companies to hire graduates.
• Participate in all program advising committee meetings.

Requirements

• College degree or trade school is preferred.
• At least two years’ experience working in a related field: i.e. Career Services, recruiting, sales, marketing.
• Experience placing students at medical assisting externship sites in a post-secondary education environment is a plus.
• Ability to gather data, analyze results, and present findings.
• Maintain professional appearance and demeanor.
• Knowledge of local business community.
• Demonstrated skills in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with students, staff, faculty, and the public.
• Possess the ability to generate leads and meet placement goals.
• Demonstrated computer literacy skills including working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision starting the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment
• 2 Weeks’ starting Vacation per year, increasing based on years of service with the company
• 12 paid Holidays and 2 Floating Holidays
• 401K with a Company Match
• Company Paid Life Insurance at 1x’s your annual salary
• Leadership development and training for career advancement
• Tuition assistance and Forgiveness for you and your family up to 100%, depending on the program