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Job Description:
Oakton has an immediate need for part-time temporary Career Counselor faculty. Career counseling is a highly interactive process where a career counselor helps the individual to learn about themselves, the world of work, how to investigate careers, their decision making style and what might be needed to make a decision. Career counselors work to uncover the obstacles to career decision making that the individual is experiencing. Common obstacles include a lack of self-knowledge, lack of information about the world of work, underdeveloped decision making skills, emotional blocks, family of origin issues, external factors, or a combination of factors.
Career counselors provide individual and group career counseling to students, alumni and community residents. Counseling is composed of a variety of career exploration activities, including interest and value clarification, skill assessment, interpretation of interest inventories, understanding decision making style, assistance with computer assisted career guidance, and investigation of career areas.
Individual job search advising and coaching is delivered, including the training/teaching of effective job search techniques such as how to write resumes and cover letters, use the Internet for job search, developing a network, using the telephone in a job search, interviewing effectively, and negotiating a salary offer.
Career counselors are paid $40 per hour.
Occasionally, career counselors also teach part-time and are paid on a lecture hour equivalents (LHE) basis for teaching. All part-time faculty start at the beginning pay rates, regardless of the level and type of experience obtained elsewhere. Those rates are $825/LHE for those without doctorates and $855/LHE for those with doctorates.
Part-time faculty advance one step within the salary schedule with the successful completion of 2 fall & spring semesters where 3+ credit hours are taught in each semester.
Requirements:
A Master's degree in Counseling, with an emphasis in Career Counseling is required.
Also required are three years of experience providing career counseling and translating current career development theory into practice in either an academic, agency, or corporate setting; experience working with college age and older adults; familiarity with the assessment tools used in Career Services, including Strong Interest inventory, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, DISCOVER, SIGI+, and Career Information Systems; and the level of communications skills necessary to conduct group presentations for workshops and classes and to coach individuals through the job search process.
Additional Information:
Part-time career counselor faculty hires and assignments are coordinated by the Manager of Career Services. Contact Robin Vivona at 847.635.1723 or vivona@oakton.edu for more information.
Part-time faculty are hired on a semester-by-semester basis. A reasonable effort is made to assure the assignment of courses to more senior part-time faculty who are fully qualified by virtue of their education, training, work experience as related to current technology and pedagogical techniques, and who have had a history of successful performance at Oakton Community College.
Career counselors are expected to complete the counseling assignments made throughout the semester.
Application Instructions:
Required documents for a complete application file include an application, cover letter, resume/cv, official transcripts for the hiring credential, and 2 original, signed recommendation letters or college placement/credential file. The recommendation letters may either be original or e-mailed directly from the reference. The transcripts may either be official or pdf copies of official transcripts. Interested applicants must submit their application, cover letter and resume/cv on the Oakton website. Please indicate the position code (PTCOU-10) on the cover letter. Official transcripts and original letters of recommendation or placement/credential file should be mailed to: Faculty Search PTCOU-10, c/o Department of Human Resources, Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Rd., Des Plaines, IL 60016. Please contact Craig Ahrndt at ahrndt@oakton.edu if you have any questions or experience problems in submitting your application.
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