Location
Sheffield | United Kingdom
Job description
The Growth Company (GC) are recruiting for an Employment Advisor to join our Restart team. We are on a mission to be the partner of choice for developing people and their communities. The Growth Company is an award-winning organisation with a mission to enable growth, create jobs and improve lives.
We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment.
Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have found themselves recently out of work, to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health and debt.
We work with employers on their recruitment and skills needs to help place people into high quality sustainable jobs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Meeting with jobseekers, identifying any challenges and barriers with finding employment.
- Booking jobseekers to any relevant training courses including customer service, security, hospitality, personal development, IT literacy and many others.
- Supporting jobseekers with CV writing and job application process.
- Liaising with employers to identify any employment opportunities for the jobseekers.
- Promoting the Growth Company within the local community.
Skills required:
- Able to demonstrate coaching/mentoring experience and persuasion/influencing skills through previous work or social activities.
- Experience of working in a customer facing environment for example Customer Services, Hospitality, Social Care, Customer Services, Sales, Retail.
- Experience of working in a performance target driven environment.
- Willingness to travel locally (e.g. to meet customers/employers).
- Experience of exposure to various customer groups.
- Previous experience of a working in a similar role in Welfare to Work or publicly funded services is desirable.
- Well-developed IT skills, including MI systems, spreadsheets and diary management, email, data security.
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