Talent Development Specialist
Purpose: The Talent Development Specialist plays a pivotal role in assisting individuals in their job search, career development, and pursuit of self-sufficiency. Your primary responsibility will be to provide comprehensive counseling and guidance to job seekers, helping them navigate challenges, identify opportunities, and achieve their employment goals. This role requires strong interpersonal skills, empathy, and a commitment to empowering individuals from diverse backgrounds.
Responsibilities:
Manages a caseload of job seekers and provides counseling and mentoring.
Assess job seeker competencies, work history, educational attainment, skills, and abilities; identify challenges to finding employment and prompts them to find solutions.
Conducts regular ongoing individual meetings with job seekers for job search, education, job retention, and/or job readiness.
Completes an individualized overview of available services and works with the job seeker to create an employment plan for short- and long-term goals.
Maintains information about area resources and employers.
Ensures job seeker accountability and attendance; tracks and maintains employment retention goals.
Provides government agencies with prompt notification that a job seeker has lost or reduced hours of employment.
Maintains scheduled, periodic contact with job seekers in a variety of locations to assess job retention/advancement issues.
Provides information to job seekers on available training and/or jobs that will lead to advancement.
Assumes central responsibility for job seekers achieving self-sufficiency by monitoring progress throughout the program cycle, beginning with referral and continuing through retention and advancement efforts.
Prepares, organizes, and maintains accurate, updated information in both electronic and paper job seeker files reflecting the entire history of a program job seeker including a log of supportive services issued.
Provides case management with a focus on helping customers to prepare for employment that leads to self-sufficiency.
Facilitates customer access to training, education, and employment services, as well as job-specific information; provides case management to customers at the appropriate level.
Other administrative duties as assigned.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Paid time off
Vision insurance
Schedule:
8 hour shift
Experience:
Microsoft PowerPoint: 1 year (Preferred)
Work Location: In person