Career Coach

Summary

Join HyperionDev's Career Services team as a Career Coach, helping coding bootcamp graduates launch successful tech careers. You will provide one-on-one coaching, workshops, and feedback on career development tasks. Responsibilities include optimizing resumes and portfolios, conducting mock interviews, and managing a talent database. The role requires at least two years of interviewing and career advising experience, strong communication skills, and proficiency with various tools. HyperionDev offers flexible remote work, generous leave, medical benefits, and the opportunity to take a free bootcamp.

Requirements

• At least 2+ years of interviewing experience in an agency or inhouse recruitment, or HR role with talent or recruitment responsibilities
• At least 2+ years recent and relevant experience in Careers-related Advising, coaching and mentorship in Higher Education or in a comparable role advising graduates seeking formal employment (HR Talent-role)
• Experience working under pressure with strict targets showing initiative and the ability to multi-task
• Understanding of the technical recruitment market
• Outstanding reporting skills and experience with CRMs
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Skilled in working with virtual tools for effective education and communication purposes
• Fast learner, meticulous attention to detail and experience working with data and delivering reports
• Client relationship and candidate management skills
• Proven computer literacy and comfort with creating and working on G-suite applications and project management tools
• Development, planning, facilitation and hosting of events
• Experience in skills development workshops

Responsibilities

• Deliver career development learning and advisory services to ensure that graduates are technically ready and prepared to enter the job market
• Offer 1:1 consultations and workshops with students to optimise their CV, LinkedIn profiles, GitHub portfolios (building their personal brand, supporting in their job search and interview preparation
• Facilitate mock interviews with graduates to practise their interview skills
• Provide high quality review/feedback on tasks submitted on our bootcamp dashboards related to Career Services
• Providing access to bespoke career development resources that support graduates in honing their professional profiles and portfolios
• Encourage students to create side-projects to fill the non-experience barrier
• Actively driving and tracking of graduate outcomes and milestones
• Regularly interact with learners using available communication platforms
• Assist with interview scheduling and candidate availability through the hiring companies’ recruitment process
• Providing excellent up to date record keeping using the data platforms that are available for student information updates
• Manage our applicant talent leads database accurately and efficiently to ensure a healthy pipeline and promotion of talent profiles to our employer partners and for vacant roles
• Promoting of job opportunities to unemployed students
• Support and drive effective marketing initiatives for placing our graduates, provide feedback on lead quality and engagement ratio, and assist with the market segmentation and targeting strategy by providing feedback on most likely to convert hiring company profiles

Preferred Qualifications

• A relevant tertiary qualification would be preferred
• Prior tech startup experience in a high-growth and ambitious environment
• At least 1 year experience with email automation and campaign outreach
• Experience with lead generation and market research for business development
• Interest / experience in the coding education and ed-tech space
• Understanding of International technical recruitment environments

Benefits

• Flexible & remote working: We are a remote-friendly organisation and offer flexible work options
• Generous annual leave and medical benefits: We provide up to 19 annual leave days as part of our leave policy, as well as medical benefits and group life cover for our staff
• Learn new tech skills: You can do 1 free bootcamp per employee per year with a 50% family discount