Role: Employment Advisor
Location: Bristol
Salary: £27,000 - £28,500
*This role is driver essential with access to own vehicle*
Role Overview:
Trigon Recruitment are recruiting for a reputable national training provider for an Employment Adviser. This role will carry a caseload of customers who are unemployed and referred by Job Centre Plus. As an Employment Advisor, you 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, and speculatively approaching employers with and on behalf of the customer to source vacancies and maximise any Participant funding available to achieve sustainable employment.
Experience working in the welfare to work/employability sector is an advantage, but if you have worked as a travel consultant, recruitment and/or HR advisor/consultant, retail manager, or any role where there is an emphasis on being a great people person with an ability to achieve targets, then this role could be a good fit for you.
Main Duties:
1. Work towards a job start target each month
2. Achieve sustained job outcomes each month
3. Manage a caseload of customers and support them into work
4. Create a smart and robust action plan for each customer
5. Fully coach, motivate, inspire and develop customer employability skills
6. Actively apply for roles with customers
7. Fully prepare customers for job interviews
8. Ensure all paper-based employability tools such as covering letters, CVs, and speculative letters are in place
9. Carry out benefit calculations
10. Signpost where applicable to partner agencies
11. Liaise with employers to source exclusive job opportunities
12. Fully update the organisation database in a timely manner
Key Skills and Attributes:
1. Organised and able to manage a caseload of job seekers
2. Target driven
3. Tenacious
4. Driven
5. Empathetic
6. Motivational
7. Inspiring
8. Understanding
9. Patient
10. Deep understanding of employability
11. Excellent people person with very competent communication skills
12. Resilience
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.
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