"Careers Coach (London-based) (110822-0925)"

About the Role

To support the career development of PTMBA students, including Executive MBAs, Global online MBAs, Accelerator MBAs and DBAs, delivering career provision in a variety of formats, including 1:1 guidance and coaching, group activities and e-learning as appropriate. To provide, alongside the Career Managers, careers and professional development support at every stage from application to WBS through to graduation, helping students to access opportunities for career transitions to maximise employability outcomes. The successful candidate will be based at Warwick Business School’s London base at The Shard. For informal enquiries, please contact Nuo Xu (PTMBA Career Manager) at Nuo.Xu@wbs.ac.uk. Flexible Working: We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis (e.g. job share), despite the position being advertised as full-time.

Duties and responsibilities

• Careers guidance appointments & focused applications support: Assisting MBA students to identify career management and professional development goals, draw up individual action plans and identify appropriate online resources to assist in the achievement of these. Act as the first point of contact for student queries and provide e-guidance as appropriate. Undertaking mock interviews. Facilitating assessment centre-type activities. Delivery of skill, leadership development, and career management workshops. This will include working with the Career Managers and faculty/administrative colleagues to implement careers education/professional skill development inputs mapped against academic programmes and identifying opportunities for students to underpin their professional skill development with practical application and experiential learning.
• Record all careers and professional development interventions for students and alumni on the university careers portal and apply appropriate processes to monitor feedback from service users, collating appropriate destinations and other careers metrics data as required.
• Maintain and develop expertise and specialist knowledge of MBA career paths and global employability trends in order to enable students and alumni to make effective transitions into their chosen careers, based on an accurate understanding of the global labour market and available opportunities.
• Actively participate in and contribute to the WBS marketing and recruitment process on behalf of WBS CareersPlus, by offering expertise from a careers perspective, interviewing prospective students as required and participating in selection days and recruitment events including open days.
• To support the Careers Managers by working alongside the Employer Relations team to ensure a collaborative approach to the development of successful long-term relationships with global, national and regional organisations for the generation of career opportunities for WBS students and alumni and the provision of appropriate, tailored support for students in terms of CVs, applications and interview preparation.
• Support the production of MBA Talent profiles to promote the quality of our MBA Talent pool to global recruiters.
• Other comparable duties and projects as defined by the WBS CareersPlus Director and MBA Careers Manager.