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Undergraduate Job Placement & Alumni Services Representative
Employer Relations & Internship Representative
Full-time Faculty, Arts & Communications
Chair of Math and Technology
Jr. Programmer / DBA assistant
Evening/Weekend Librarian
Department: Center for Career Development
Post Date: 6/2/2010
Job Type: Part-time
Undergraduate Job Placement & Alumni Services Representative
General Description
The Undergraduate Job Placement & Alumni Services Representative functions as part of the Career Development team whose primary responsibility is to assist graduates and/or alumni with job placement. They will assist in securing part-time and/or permanent placement upon graduation and lifetime placement services for alumni. In addition to assisting in all aspects of the department, this position has its own case load of graduating students to place. Job duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Internal Relations
- Acts as the point person for graduating students and alumni for guidance in resume writing, interviewing skills, workplace professionalism, and job placement
- Works closely with the Career Development team and the Employer Relations and Internship Representative to generate internship, volunteer and employment opportunities for LIM College students, graduates and alumni.
- Handles all job postings as it relates to full-time and part-time jobs.
- Regulates sign-up sheets, and follows up with graduates/alumni; also sends graduates/alumni resumes out to companies and sets up interviews for graduate/alumni, if applicable.
- Supports recent alumni transition from student into sustainable professional careers in fashion and related industries.
- Reviews alumni resumes and cover letters to help ensure job placement.
- Advocates for students by matching their goals/interests with related job and educational opportunities.
- Provides one-on-one coaching sessions for alumni related to job search, college search, and other relevant next steps.
- Diligently represents alumni and assists in anything needed for job placement.
- Assists the Career Development staff with managing the placement of students in the credited internship programs from resume creation through internship completion. This process includes: one-on-one counseling sessions with every student, an explanation of the syllabus, program rules and parameters, placement in retail or corporate positions, making on-site visits, resolving any student-employer issues, and retrieval of all student performance evaluations from supervisors
- Works with the Employer Relations and Internship Representative in organizing and participating in all on-campus student and alumni recruiting events such as: Job Fairs, Career Days and evening professional development seminars. Plan events and execute including all aspects of effective event implementation
- Works closely with Institutional Advancement team to plan alumni programming and services
- Develops and maintains relationships with businesses and fashion industry to learn of hiring and educational opportunities for alumni
- Establishes and maintains recruiting relationships with employing organizations and corporations for the purpose of increasing career opportunities for graduates through on-campus recruiting activities
- Assists in office networking efforts to add to industry contacts and partnerships
- Other duties as assigned or as required by the department
- Manages the Symplicity CSM, with the Career Development Assistant and ensures proper approval of employers and postings in the system. This position will also be responsible for running reports for their respective programs, and other functions as needed.
- Compiles and maintains current and historical data on jobs, placement, employers, salaries, and other data as requested by Senior Management
- Creates and maintains accurate employer data base and all reports as it relates to graduate job placement
- Implements career and advising sessions in order to build strong relationships with students and alumni
- Leads the alumni tracking, evaluation and reporting processes through Symplicity CSM
- Maintains weekly LIM College placement statistical reports
- Reviews and assesses performance evaluations and counseling students who received negative feedback in order to address attitudes or behaviors that may hinder the student’s future career success
- Participates in Work Project and Senior Co-op on-site visits
- Compiles Assessment information and writing assessments for their programs
Minimum Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- Strong, demonstrable computer skills especially in MS Office
- At least 5-10 years of extensive human resources or related university/college level career development experience
- Knowledge of word processing and spreadsheet applications, best practices in career development and/or industry knowledge
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and creatively
- Demonstrated experience working effectively with employers
General Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree preferred, relevant professional experience required
- Career counseling experience a plus
- Outstanding interpersonal, analytical, and problem solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Good interpersonal and public relations skills
- Solid analytical, creative, and problem-solving abilities
- Project management skills and well organized
For consideration, candidates are required to submit a cover letter, resume or C.V. and the contact information of three professional references to: Britta H. Hahn
Human Resources Coordinator
LIM College – Where Business Meets Fashion
12 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022-5268
Fax: 212-750-3493
Email: hrcareers@limcollege.edu
Department: Center for Career Development
Post Date: 6/04/2010
Job Type: Part-time
Employer Relations & Internship Representative
General Description
The Employer Relations & Internship Representative functions as part of the Career Development team whose primary responsibility is to increase the number of job leads for LIM College students and alumni. This person will be the liaison between LIM College and the Fashion Industry and build relationship with employers. The Employer Relations & Internship Representative will also assist students with internships, job placement and secure part-time and/or permanent placement and provide lifetime career services for alumni. He/She will work with the Career Development staff to ensure the department has an adequate amount of job leads. This person will work with companies to teach them the LIM College Internship Philosophy and have the companies create an adequate learning environment for students.
Job duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Internal Relations
- Works closely with the Career Development Team and the Undergraduate Job Placement & Alumni Services Representative to generate internship, volunteer and employment opportunities for LIM College students, graduates and alumni
- Communicates and coordinates all jobs leads with appropriate Career Development staff to facilitate employment and career advising activities.
- Shares learning and industry insights with staff, faculty and Senior Management to provide employment/industry market updates including current hiring practices, interview styles, and industry differences in recruiting practices. Maintains thorough knowledge and understanding of campus employment goals and stays abreast of benchmarks
- Builds strong working relationships with faculty, staff and Senior Management to help ensure that employment goals are met, including actively seeking information from campuses about how to effectively assist them
- Assists the Career Development staff with managing the placement of students in the credited internship programs from resume creation through internship completion. This process includes: one-on-one counseling sessions with every student, an explanation of the syllabus, program rules and parameters, placement in retail or corporate positions, making on-site visits, resolving of any student-employer issues, and retrieving of student performance evaluations from supervisors
- Handles all job posting and the employer relations as it relates to full-time and part-time jobs.
- Works with the Undergraduate Job Placement & Alumni Services Representative in organizing and participating in all on-campus student and alumni recruiting events such as: Job Fairs, Career Days and evening professional development seminars. Plans events and execute including all aspects of effective event implementation
- Proactively provides constructive, consistent and timely employer feedback to Director of Career Development and industry partners
- Partners with Director of Career Development to create and manage communication/marketing plan targeted at heightening the employers’ awareness of programs/campus, students, alumni, and Career Development Services
- Implements career and advising sessions in order to build strong relationships with students and alumni.
- Works closely with the Institutional Advancement team to plan alumni and industry programming and services.
External Relations
- Develops long term working relationships with businesses and creates opportunities for strategic alliances, collaborations, and partnerships with employers
- Performs specific job development activities with companies for co-op entry level and experienced job leads.
- Develops and manages an employer recruitment plan by program and targeted industry
- Manages the Employer Training Sessions and Employer Related events.
- Encourages companies to participate in LIM College Career Fairs, Fashion Survey, Field Trips and related events, including on-campus interviewing.
- Works with businesses to identify employment trends on a regional basis and communicates these trends to appropriate staff personnel.
- Develops and maintains relationships with businesses and fashion industry to learn of hiring and educational opportunities for students and alumni.
- Effectively networks with industry and trade associations, professional associations, as well as not-for-profit groups within the community surrounding our campuses
- Identifies and secures student career development opportunities such as internships, Field Trips/tours, job shadowing, mentoring, guest speakers on campus, etc.
- Markets LIM College and the Center of Career Development through job/career fairs, open houses and other employment related community events
- Maintains thorough knowledge of job market and targeted industries, including industry trends, company market shares, tools and technologies in the industry.
- Assists in office networking efforts to add to industry contacts and partnerships
- Other duties as assigned or as required by the department
Administration
- Manages the Symplicity CSM, with the Career Development Assistant and ensures proper approval of employers and postings in the system. This position will also be responsible for running reports, and other functions as needed
- Compiles and maintains current and historical data on jobs, placement, employers and salaries for the department.
- Creates and maintain accurate employer data base and progress reports
Educational Assessment and Administration
- Reviews and assesses performance evaluations and counseling students who received negative feedback in order to address attitudes or behaviors that may hinder the student’s future career success
- Participates in Work Project and Senior Co-op on-site visits
- Compiles Assessment information and writing assessments for their programs
- Follows up and maintains all job leads and reports on lead activity.
- Assists with placement and assessment of experiential learning assignments for students.
Requirements: The person selected will have the following qualifications:
Minimum Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- Strong, demonstrable computer skills especially in MS Office
- At least 5-10 years of extensive human resources or related university/college level career development experience
- Knowledge of word processing and spreadsheet applications, best practices in career development and/or industry knowledge
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and creatively
- Demonstrated experience working effectively with employers
General Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree preferred, relevant professional experience required
- Corporate college/university relations experience a plus
- Outstanding interpersonal, analytical, and problem solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Good interpersonal and public relations skills
- Solid analytical, creative, and problem-solving abilities
- Project management skills and well organized
For consideration, candidates are required to submit a cover letter, resume or C.V. and the contact information of three professional references to:
Britta H. Hahn
Human Resources Coordinator
LIM College – Where Business Meets Fashion
12 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022-5268
Fax: 212-750-3493
Email: hrcareers@limcollege.edu
Department: Arts & Communications
Post Date: 5/27/2010
Job Type: Full-time
Full-time Faculty, Arts & Communications
General Description
Full-time faculty in Arts & Communications are expected to:
- Teach 3-4 courses per semester, primarily in composition
- Stay current with innovative teaching methods
- Contribute to the profession through research, consulting, presentations, and/or publications
- Hold regular office hours weekly
- Work closely with students outside of the classroom as a faculty mentor
- Assist the Department Chair in course and program assessment as well as curriculum development
- Assist the Department Chair and other faculty in norming core courses
- Conduct observations of faculty as assigned by Chair
- Work closely with other faculty as a mentor and resource
- Serve on the Faculty Council and standing committees
- Contribute to college-wide programs such as Open House and internship visits
- Work with the Department Chair and faculty peers to set and achieve scholarship goals
- Actively participate, through presentations, in relevant conferences annually
- Actively engage with the field through relevant association memberships
Requirements: The person selected will have the following qualifications:
Minimum Required Qualifications:
- Ph.D. in one of the following fields: Rhetoric & Composition, English/American Literature, Comparative Literature
- Evidence of excellent college teaching record
- Scholarship activity
- Ability to compose, evaluate, and assess composition course materials
General Preferred Qualifications:
- Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Composition
- Experience teaching in the distance learning format
- Scholarship in Rhetoric & Composition
- Familiarity with Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)
A comprehensive benefits package includes hospitalization, medical, prescription drugs, dental, vision, life insurance, vacation and a 401K plan.
For consideration, candidates are required to submit a cover letter, resume or C.V. and the contact information of three professional references to:
Britta H. Hahn
Human Resources Coordinator
LIM College – Where Business Meets Fashion
12 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022-5268
Fax: 212-750-3493
Email: hrcareers@limcollege.edu
Post Date: 2/25/10
Job Type: Full-time
General Description
The Department Chair is responsible for all aspects of academic affairs within the Math and Technology department, which oversees the core requirements for the College’s bachelor of business administration degree programs. This includes hiring, development and reappointment of faculty, overseeing of learning outcomes assessment and of curriculum development. The Department Chair should have a well-planned vision for the department, making proposals for new initiatives and carrying out approved proposals for new programs, courses, curricula, teaching tools or any other initiative that enhances the LIM College education.
Requirements: The person selected will have the following qualifications:
- Ph.D., or terminal degree, in Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Technology or related field
- A minimum of 7 years of successful college teaching experience
- Successful managerial experience
- The ability to work in a team environment
- A demonstrated history of initiative
- Excellent communication and technological skills
- Preference will be given to candidates who possess academic administrative experience at the chair or higher level
A comprehensive benefits package includes hospitalization, medical, prescription drugs, dental, vision, life insurance, vacation and a 401K plan.
For consideration, candidates are required to submit a cover letter, resume or C.V. and the contact information of three professional references to:
Britta H. Hahn
Human Resources Coordinator
LIM College – Where Business Meets Fashion
12 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022-5268
Fax: 212-750-3493
Email: hrcareers@limcollege.edu
Department: Information Technology
Post Date: 8/5/2010
Job Type: Full-time
Jr. Programmer / DBA assistant
General Description
The Jr. Programmer / DBA Assistant will assist in the development, maintenance, and creation of all LIM College in house solutions. He/she will assist in providing application development through the use of programming languages and coding. LIM College’s middleware and ad-hoc applications will be supported with the use of customized coding and integration. This position will provide real-time testing and troubleshooting of these applications under the supervision of the Sr. DBA / SIS Administrator.
The Jr. Programmer / DBA Assistant will support the Sr. DBA / SIS Administrator in the development, installation, configuration, documentation, and maintenance of LIM College’s software infrastructure. He/she will also respond via the ticketing system and escalate accordingly.
He/she will perform secondary duties of assisting the Senior Systems Administrator / Engineer in any new initiatives by planning, documenting, testing, and rolling out new systems and applications.
Job duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Primary Functions & Duties
- Support program code using per application specifications (middleware and third party)
- Test and troubleshoot programs utilizing the appropriate hardware, database, and programming technology
- Maintain and modify programs , middleware, and tie in
- Support Application Requirements
- Make approved changes by amending flow charts
- Support detailed programming logic, and coding changes
- Test, develop, and maintain programming modifications
- Maintain data mining & reporting architecture initiatives
- Analyze performance of programs and take action to correct deficiencies
- Write and maintain programming documentation
- Document programming problems and resolutions
- Assist Sr. DBA / SIS Administrator with the upkeep and maintenance of all databases as well as servers
- Includes Tier 1 installation and management of all critical database services and rolled out solutionsTroubleshoot internal solutions
- Provide user training
- Support and document corporate wide data cleanup initiative and provide turn-key support in importing/exporting data to current or new SIS
- Secondary lead in new SIS initiative under the supervision of the Sr. DBA / SIS Administrator
- Respond “real-time” to all production related end-users help desk calls and email
- Determine priority and severity of trouble tickets, documenting trouble ticket into tracking system – Track-IT and escalating to Sr. DBA\ SIS Administrator or Director as needed
- Assist in all technical help requests from students, staff and faculty
- Responsible for assisting all users with questions they have regarding basic application usage, within reasonable means
- Submit bi-weekly project and status reports to Sr. DBA / SIS Administrator
- Participating in all college wide programs
- Performing other duties as assigned
Secondary Functions & Duties
- Provide hands on support and maintenance of system servers under direct supervision of Sr. Systems Administrator
- Assist in the support of (data) server infrastructure
- VMware Infrastructure
- EMC SANs
- Active Directory and GPO
- File and Print Services
- Exchange 2003, 2007 a plus - Assist in the support of (file) sever infrastructure
- File services (DFS)
- Application services
- Printing Services
- Mail Services
- Virtual Infrastructure - Assist in the day to day administration of Windows server systems, services, and applications
- Provide Microsoft Active Directory administration and support
- Respond “real-time” to all end-users help desk calls, email and walk in requests for technical assistance
- Determining priority and severity of trouble tickets, documenting trouble ticket into tracking system – Track-IT and escalating to administrators or Director as needed
Requirements: The person selected will have the following qualifications:
Minimum Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field is required
- A minimum of 3 years in the programming field
- Strong knowledge of programming languages including .NET, Access, SQL
- Strong knowledge and understanding of the following database features:
- Stored procedures, views, triggers
- UDF, SQL Agent, CLR, DBmail
- Replication\Backup\Restore - A minimum of 1 year in the Administration of a Microsoft Windows Domain environment
- Working knowledge in the Administration of Windows Active Directory, Group Policies, Windows Server 2003 & 2008 Server
- Strong written, verbal, analytical and technical skills
General Preferred Qualifications
- MSSQL 2005\2008 certification is a plus
- Any Microsoft, programming, or related technology certification is a plus
- Strong software and hardware troubleshooting skills of servers, desktops, and peripherals
- Strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, proficient in time management and organizational skill
- The ability to work in a team environment and motivate colleagues
A comprehensive benefits package includes hospitalization, medical, prescription drugs, dental, vision, life insurance, vacation and a 401K plan.
For consideration, candidates are required to submit a cover letter, resume or C.V. and the contact information of three professional references to:
Britta H. Hahn
Human Resources Coordinator
LIM College – Where Business Meets Fashion
12 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022-5268
Fax: 212-750-3493
Email: hrcareers@limcollege.edu
Department: Library Services
Post Date: 8/5/2010
Job Type: Part-time
General Description
The Evening / Weekend Librarian assists students and faculty with print and digital sources of information during evening and weekend hours. He/she is responsible for providing reference services for patrons using both standard paper sources and on line databases to answer all reference questions.
Job duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Service Functions
- Analyze patron’s request to determine needed information and assist in furnishing and locating that information
- Teach patrons to search for information using research databases and other information sources
- Will teach library information classes as needed
- Check books in and out of the library using the SIRSI library system
- Explains the use of library facilities, equipment and services
- Offers and relates information about library policies
- Assembles and arranges materials for displays
Non-Service Functions
- Keeps records of all library transactions
- Assists students with copy machines and printers
- Weeds books, magazines and newspapers as needed
- Responds to patron’s complaints and takes action as necessary
- Compiles lists of new materials, such as, books, periodicals and DVD’s as needed
- Assisting in Open House programs as needed
Requirements: The person selected will have the following qualifications:
Minimum Required Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in the field of Library Science or equivalent
- A minimum of 2 years experience in an academic library setting
- Ability to operate SIRSI library software
- Proficiency in reference delivery
- Able to work well within a small library setting as well as work independently
General Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in Library Science
- Excellent interpersonal and public relations skills
- Knowledge of library operations
For consideration, candidates are required to submit a cover letter, resume or C.V. and the contact information of three professional references to:
Britta H. Hahn
Human Resources Coordinator
LIM College – Where Business Meets Fashion
12 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022-5268
Fax: 212-750-3493
Email: hrcareers@limcollege.edu
