• Support refugees and people seeking asylum into professional careers
• Unique and successful non-profit social enterprise model
• Based in Melbourne

About CareerSeekers

CareerSeekers is a non-profit social enterprise that works with leading employers to create paid professional internship opportunities for refugees and people seeking asylum. We help unleash the talent of refugees in Corporate Australia while getting employers to realise meaningful diversity aspirations. We work with both mid-career professionals eager to reignite their career in Australia and university students seeking a pathway to graduate employment.

We are a professional organisation that achieves outstanding results both for participants and employers. We have an enviable rate of success with nearly 90% of participants in our programs securing ongoing professional employment, working with around 80 of Australia’s most well known employers.

About the Role

The Careers Advisor is responsible for supporting participants in the program transition to professional employment. The focus of the role is to support young people in our university student stream in their search for graduate employment, however you will also be exposed to participants in the mid-career program stream.

This is a varied role and will suit someone with a good understanding of employability and career development; a passion to achieve great outcomes for our participants; employability training and coaching skills which can be deployed in relation to participants as well as to build the careers knowledge of the CareerSeekers team; and a flexible mindset and can-do attitude, prepared to roll their sleeves up and get involved in the broader work of CareerSeekers.

Key elements of the role include:

• Supporting participants to achieve positive graduate employment outcomes
• Developing, coordinating and delivering workshops to build the skills and knowledge of participants in elements of the job search process – including graduate assessment activities
• Providing individual careers support to participants, in particular focusing on CV preparation and interview skills
• Equipping Advisors at CareerSeekers with deeper knowledge and skills around employability and careers
• Getting involved with other projects or tasks that contribute to the success of CareerSeekers, on an as-needs basis. This might involve, for example, managing the internship journey of a small cohort of participants

Skills and attributes required

• Results oriented, pragmatic approach
• A sound understanding of career development particularly as it relates to graduate recruitment
• Expertise in graduate recruitment and the tools required to navigate the recruitment phase, including interview skills and resume preparation
• Training and facilitation skills, both face-to-face and online
• Excellent communication, collaboration and influencing skills. A large part of the success of your approach will be delivered through other team members

What We Offer

This is a rewarding role with a successful and growing purpose-driven organisation. We are a small and close-knit team.

The role provides an opportunity to have a real, tangible impact on the lives of people from a refugee background, aspiring to a professional career. Be inspired by the life journeys of the amazing people in our program, work with our corporate partners supporting their leading diversity and inclusion initiatives and build your professional network.

This role is performed on a part-time basis.

Salary packaging benefits are available.

The role does require regular, face-to-face interaction with participants and employment partners, including on sites with mandatory vaccination requirements. As such, only applicants fully-vaccinated against COVID-19 can be considered.

Please click "Apply Now" to submit your application.

For enquiries about the role, please contact Crystal Fernandes on 0418 285 322 or [email protected] using the subject line: Careers Advisor enquiry via EthicalJobs.