Description

Role: Employment Advisor

Location: Birmingham

Salary: £29,500

Role overview of an Employment Advisor

Trigon Recruitment are recruiting for a reputable national training provider for an Employment Advisor. This role will carry a caseload of customers who are unemployed and referred by Job Centre Plus. An Employment Adviser will use a variety of techniques including effective diagnosis/initial assessment to identify barriers to employment, individual and group coaching, developing paper based marketing tools such as CVs, supporting and improving interview techniques, speculatively approaching employers with and on behalf of the customer to source vacancies and maximising on any participant funding available to achieve sustainable employment.

Main duties of an Employment Advisor:-

Work towards a job start target each month

Achieve sustained job outcomes each month

Manage a caseload of customers and support them into work

Create a smart and robust action plan for each customer

Fully coach, motivate, inspire and develop customer employability skills

Actively apply for roles with customers

Fully preparing customers for job interviews

Ensuring all paper based employability tools such as covering letters, CVs, speculative letters are in place

Carrying out benefit calculations

Signposting where applicable to partner agencies

Liaising with employers to source exclusive job opportunities

Fully updating the organisation database in a timely manner

Key skills and Attributes

Organised and able to manage a caseload of job seekers

Target driven

Tenacious

Driven

Empathetic

Motivational

Inspiring

This is a very rewarding role for the right candidate which requires a very capable and multi skilled individual to be successful. The organisation is well established and has a wonderful culture and ethos with low attrition rates.