Are you seeking a platform to make a difference? Do you have professional career opportunities and recruitment practices?
Apply now and become the Student’s Careers Consultant!
In this role, you will deliver comprehensive career guidance services, encompassing one-on-one assistance, workshops, and presentations, catering to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as apprenticeship program participants. You’ll actively contribute to implementing our Careers strategy, ensuring that our current students and recent graduates’ access and engage with a top-tier career advice and guidance service.
This involves building and maintaining relationships with employers in various fields to enhance employability skills. Your impact will be pivotal in providing a world-class career advice service that accommodates our diverse student body, including international students, and supports outreach and participation initiatives. Collaboration with internal stakeholders and external employers is essential. The role may require flexible hours, including evenings and weekends, as well as travel to different BPP centres, with an Enhanced DBS check also necessary.
What you’ll be doing
As a Careers Consultant you will be required to create opportunities for mentoring, placements, and employer engagement events, as well as participating in career fairs.
Providing wide range of career guidance activities to all BPP students and learners. This included one-on-one support, workshops, and presentations, delivered through various mediums, including in-person, telephone, and online platforms.
The role entails maintaining expert knowledge of recruitment practices to provide students and early career graduates with up-to-date and insightful support. This support is geared toward helping them prepare for applications, interviews, and other selection methods effectively.
Choose a better work-life balance
In addition, you’ll have the flexibility of a home-based role, with the option to work from one of our centres should you wish. Either way, you’ll benefit from a vibrant workplace and a culture that believes in looking after others, while being part of a diverse workforce where difference is celebrated. In addition, you’ll work alongside other like-minded professionals who champion progress, while having opportunities to develop in an environment where creativity and innovation is rewarded. On top of a competitive salary, we provide a generous annual leave entitlement of 28 days, and there’s a rewards package that includes retail discounts, Group Personal Pension Plan, dedicated healthcare, and dental plans that offer additional assurance to look after you and your family.
Candidate Criteria
- Proficient in understanding professional career opportunities and recruitment practices
- Knowledgeable about higher education, careers guidance services, apprenticeship settings, or early careers.
- Proficient in using technology for career guidance.
- Good customer service
- Effective team player with resilience, initiative, and the ability to handle pressure.
- Excellent communication, networking, and relationship-building skills
- Strong organisational, project management, and time management skills.
- Familiar with MS Office
- Student-centric
- Experienced in writing and delivering training sessions
- Relevant qualification
Please note successful candidates will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS Check.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 –! ; success ful candidate will be required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings that are not protected, as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013)
Sound like the perfect fit? Apply today