Employment

The Career Advisor works with students, faculty, Academic Advising, Coaching, the Drake Center for Academic Support, and Career Services colleagues to support career exploration, experiential learning, employment readiness, and post-Landmark planning.

As part of Landmark College’s Student Success Model, this role helps students connect academic achievement, personal development, executive functioning strategies, and career readiness. The Career Advisor provides individualized advising, accessible programming, internship/employment support, and guidance aligned with students’ strengths and goals.

The work is student-centered and neurodiversity-affirming, with emphasis on agency, self-advocacy, and independence.

Responsibilities:

• Provide one-on-one career advising, counseling, and coaching.
• Help students identify strengths, interests, fields of study, career goals, and post-Landmark pathways.
• Support resumes, cover letters, interviewing, networking, job and internship searches, professional communication, transfer, and graduate school preparation.
• Use developmental advising, life coaching, motivational interviewing, and appreciative inquiry practices.
• Apply understanding of executive functioning, emerging adult development, identity, and neurodivergent learners.
• Design and deliver workshops, presentations, and accessible resources on career exploration, employment readiness, internships, professional skills, financial literacy, and planning.
• Teach or support career readiness courses, including Employment Readiness Experience and Online Internship, especially during the summer.
• Collaborate with faculty, Academic Advising, Coaching, the Drake Center, employers, alumni, and community partners to integrate career development and expand opportunities.
• Maintain accurate records of meetings, advising activity, internship progress, employer engagement, and outcomes.
• Use data, assessment tools, Microsoft Excel, and career services platforms to monitor progress, evaluate programming, and support improvement.
• Contribute to Career Services programming, assessment, and occasional evening or weekend events.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required; master’s degree in counseling, coaching, higher education, student development, career development, or related field preferred.
• Experience in career counseling, academic advising, workforce development, or higher education student support.
• Experience supporting students with learning differences, ADHD, autism, and/or neurodivergent profiles, or willingness to develop this expertise.
• Strong interpersonal, written, verbal, organizational, and collaborative skills.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and neurodivergent student success.
• Ability to design and deliver accessible career-related materials, workshops, and resources.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Excel required.
• Experience with Pathful, Handshake, Big Interview, or similar platforms preferred.
• Knowledge of FERPA, ADA, and related regulations preferred.

Work Environment:

General office and campus environment requiring regular, sensitive interaction with students, faculty, staff, employers, alumni, and community partners.

Compensation: 

Compensation is range is $45,000 - $60,000. Additional compensation may be available for teaching career readiness courses during fall, January term, and spring when preparation and delivery occur outside designated Career Services hours, unless otherwise approved.