Career Advisor, Core Services

Date Posted: 08/19/2025
Req ID: 44884
Faculty/Division: Joseph L. Rotman School of Management
Department: Rotman Commerce Career Centre
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Position Number: 00051345

Description:

About us:

The Rotman School of Management is part of the University of Toronto, a global centre of research and academic excellence at the heart of Canada’s commercial and financial capital. Rotman is a catalyst for transformative learning, insights and public engagement, bringing together diverse views and initiatives around a defining purpose: to create value for business and society. We make a fundamental promise – Here’s where it changes – to our students, our partners and the broader community. Everyone at Rotman, faculty and staff, plays a role in bringing that promise to life.


Your opportunity:

The Rotman Commerce program is offered jointly by the Rotman School of Management and the Faculty of Arts and Science. It is a highly respected, highly competitive program within the business, financial and academic communities. Rotman Commerce serves approximately 3,300 in-program undergraduate business students as well as over 18,000 graduates of the Bachelor of Commerce program. Rotman Commerce offers its students a rich and rigorous academic program alongside ample opportunities to develop themselves personally and professionally.

As the Career Advisor, Core Services, you will work with a team of career service professionals to ensure students and recent alumni are prepared to enter the job market with confidence and a solid understanding of how their strengths, values and interests are coherent with their identity and program of study.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Coaching students on a variety of career related topics including resumes and cover letters, job search strategies, interviewing, goal setting and more; increasing students' confidence and self-efficacy. Advising and coaching students on developing career-related goals
• Identifying gaps or growth opportunities in career education and development programming; building and revising programming to meet student needs
• Delivering and managing career education and development programming
• Building and revising career education resources and content including but not limited to building asynchronous learning modules
• Facilitating workshops, webinars; reviewing and assessing feedback received
• Keeping well-informed on industry and career education best practices
• Promoting programs and service offerings to internal and/or external contacts
• Fostering cooperative working relationships with a wide variety of internal and external contacts

Essential Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in adult education or related field; or acceptable combination of equivalent education and experience
• Minimum five (5) years full time, relevant, progressively more senior experience, in designing and planning career development programs (or a related field)
• Experience facilitating and presenting; experience in coaching or advising (preferably within a university setting)
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of adult education principles
• Ability to utilize technology, including social media, as an education tool
• Demonstrated written, oral and interpersonal skills
• Strong project and program management skills; organized, ability to handle a variety of projects, deadlines and schedules simultaneously and under minimal supervision
• Knowledge of career services as well as campus recruiting
• Collaborative team approach and positive attitude
• Outstanding customer service focus and the ability to work effectively with a wide variety of people at different levels of the University and with external stakeholders is essential
• Must have a good understanding of business students and employment markets
• Demonstrated decision-making skills in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Tact, discretion, sensitivity to confidential matters
• Strong computer skills; sound working knowledge of MS Office; experience with databases and Content Management Systems
• Ability to work outside of normal office hours for event support

Assets (Nonessential):

• Career coaching certification
• Experience working with post-secondary students in a university environment
• Experience or knowledge in business communities such as finance, accounting, management, or marketing

To be successful in this role you will be:

• Communicator
• Diplomatic
• Intuitive
• Patient
• Possess a positive attitude
• Team player

Closing Date: 08/27/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 14 -- $91,677. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $117,242. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Student Services
Recruiter: Jen Salerno

Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.