Academic Advisor II

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Academic Advisor II

Duties: Develop and maintain effective relationships with legal employers and recruiters through creative initiatives for marketing and promoting the law school to employers and students. Plan and implement strategies that encourage employers to hire law school students. Conduct employer visits locally and regionally. Direct the On Campus Interview Programs. Solicit additional on campus interviewers. Develop, market, and administer fall and spring recruiting programs, including creating publications and advertising materials, coordinating mailings and forecasting target markets. Represent and market the law school to internal and external constituencies, including legal employers, recruiters, judges and bar associations. Actively solicit job opportunities for law students and alumni using all possible avenues. Facilitate communications between employers and students. Remain abreast of employment trends and avenues for enhancing job search success. Develop and conduct educational programming, workshops and seminars, including but not limited to, resume and cover letter workshops, career options programming, networking receptions and mock interviews. Perform career development and job search personal counseling for students and alumni. Provide individual resume and cover letter review and assistance. Coach students to develop short and long term job seeking strategies/career plans. Individually counsel students and alumni regarding their career plans and professional development. Handle student walk ins, telephone inquiries, and email requests from students, alumni, and employers. Maintain career services databases. Prepare statistical and other reports for internal and external constituencies. Assist in maintaining appropriate statistics on students and alumni jobs, including a variety of characteristics of same for purpose of reporting to the National Association for Law Placement and for internal purposes. Draft informational guides on a range of career related topics for use by students and alumni. Represent the law school's career services function to internal and external audiences including marketing services, students, alumni and legal employers. Maintain contact with student organizations to enhance students' knowledge of job hunting responsibilities and opportunities. Participate in law school events, including speaking at law school orientation and admissions open house events. Assist in the planning of the annual career services orientation for first year students and speak at the event. Create learning opportunities to help prepare students and alumni for career exploration and the job search. Conduct mock interviews with students and alumni and provide feedback on their performance. Cooperate with any law school faculty or staff to enhance Career Services efforts. Help maintain and update the Career Services web site. Assist in maintaining the Career Services library, including selecting appropriate resources for use by students and alumni.

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