Career Development Specialist

About the company:

NIIT is a leading Skills and Talent Development Corporation that is building a manpower pool for global industry requirements. The company, which was set up in 1981 to help the nascent IT industry overcome its human resource challenges, today ranks among the world’s leading training companies owing to its vast, yet comprehensive array of talent development programs. With a footprint across 40 nations, NIIT offers training and development solutions to Individuals, Enterprises, and Institutions.

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Position - Career Development Advisor

Location - USA

The Career Development Advisor (CDA) acts as a personalized advisor to guide Career Center participants in building skills, networking, and discovering potential career paths within MRL. By leveraging available learning resources and connections with the Career Navigators, they play a pivotal role in guiding the participants to the most appropriate resources. They play an important role in the execution of the Career Center strategies.

The responsibilities of the CDA include, but are not restricted to the following:

• Offers learning resources and solutions for the participants’ issues or areas of opportunities
• Charts a course for individual development based on assessment insights
• Partners with participants to implement proactive steps that will enable them to improve their skill levels to achieve their career goals
• Partners with participants to establish and implement a continuous learning plan
• Brokers opportunities (e.g., gigs, projects, special assignments) for participants by introducing them to other departments and groups outside of their immediate department
• Partners with participants to end the coaching relationship in a way that honors the experience
• Serves a customer-facing role to address the development needs of MRL employees enrolled in the Career Center
• Partners with participants in a thought-provoking & creative process that assists them in establishing a career development plan
• Establishes agreements for the overall coaching engagement as well for each coaching session
• Challenges participants to explore potential development paths and encourages them to broaden their scope
• Conducts assessments of participants’ occupational interests, career aspirations, knowledge, skills, and abilities
• Partners with participants and relevant stakeholders to create clear agreements about the relationship, process, plans, and goals
• Connects the participants to appropriate Career Navigators

Will learn/follow the practices below:

• Demonstrates ethical practices
• Develops and maintains a mindset that is open, curious, flexible, and participant-centered
• Acknowledges that participants are responsible for their own choices
• Communicates effectively
• Co-Creates the Relationship
• Develops and maintains the ability to mentally and emotionally prepare for sessions
• Is sensitive to participants’ identity, environment, experiences, values, and beliefs
• Demonstrates professional written and verbal communication skills
• Listens actively
• Demonstrates organized and efficient tracking and recording of details as it relates to participant interactions, recommendations, action plans, and follow-ups
• Maintains confidentiality
• Creates recommend action plans (using MRL resources) based on employee goals

Qualifications

Minimum education requirement: Bachelor’s degree in HR, Psychology, Counseling/Social Work, or Education. Knowledge of the drug development industry is preferred but not required.

• Effective communicator.
• Ability to provide examples and effective solutions.
• Active listening and understanding.
• Ability to coach and advise career center participants using internal resources in a virtual environment.
• Organizational development and design experience.
• Credible experience working with individuals at a higher level.
• Culturally competent.
• Embodies a Mentoring Mindset to provide feedback in a constructive manner.
• 2-4 years of experience within an HR, Learning and Development, or Coaching department. Effective relationship/interpersonal skills.
• Must understand networking.

NIIT is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Thanks & Regards

Anoop Tiwari