Assistant Director Career And Professional Development And Externships

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Assistant Director – Career and Professional Development and Externships
Duties: Meet with students and alumni to assess their career goals; create career development and job search strategies; provide guidance on drafting resumes, cover letters and other application materials; prepare for interviews; and provide advice on other career related topics. Use reflective listening to provide the students with feedback and support as they develop their career plans. Advise students regarding externship course offerings and registration, will help coordinate externship placement opportunities, will support externship faculty on course logistics, and will collect and process applications for externship courses. Work collaboratively and independently to create and deliver programs, workshops and events for students on a variety of career related topics. Assessing student interests and needs, creation, editing and improving substantive career development materials, facilitating panels and evaluating programs. Collaborating with student organizations, outside organizations, and internal stakeholders on program creation and promotion. Play a role in marketing the school and its students to employers locally, nationally and internationally. Understand employment trends, markets, and employers. Maintain and expand relationships with employers and legal professionals through networking at conferences, serving on committees, making in-person visits, and through telephone and email contact. Assist with drafting and designing marketing materials (paper and electronic) as appropriate. Through newsletters, social media, the cpd website, job notifications, podcasts, and other formats, cpd reaches out to students to inform them about opportunities, provide advice, and market cpd programming, services and resources. Develop and evaluate strategies for communicating with students, determine newsletter content, and create other outreach materials. Attending law school events, meeting with student organizations, and seeking other opportunities to interact with students to develop relationships and promote cpd’s goals. Collect, assess and report on a variety of career development and placement related data. Assist in the collection and assessment of this information as needed.

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