Job Responsibility:

- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 37.5 hours per week
- Education: Bachelor's degree
- Experience: Will train

Work setting

- Community-based agency

Tasks

- Interview clients to obtain employment history, educational background and career goals
- Identify barriers to employment and assist clients with such matters as job readiness skills, job search strategies, writing résumés and preparing for job interviews
- Perform administrative tasks
- Collect labour market information for clients regarding job openings, entry and skill requirements and other occupational information
- Provide established workers with information and strategies for maintaining a job or moving within an organization
- Provide consulting services to community groups and agencies, businesses, industry and other organizations involved in providing community-based career planning support or resources
- Develop and implement counselling and intervention programs to assist clients in determining goals and means of attaining them
- Interview clients, prepare case histories and assess problems
- Counsel clients, provide therapy and mediation services,



and facilitate group sessions
- Evaluate the effectiveness of counselling programs and interventions, and clients' progress in resolving identified problems and movement toward defined objectives
- Liaise with community agencies or partners, and identify additional or alternative services and provide referrals

Computer and technology knowledge

- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Word

Security and safety

- Criminal record check

Transportation/travel information

- Own vehicle

Work conditions and physical capabilities

- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure

Personal suitability

- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Values and ethics
- Flexibility

Health perks

- Health care plan

Long term benefits

- Group insurance benefits
- Other benefits

Other benefits

- Free parking available
- Team building opportunities
- Wellness program

📌 job counsellor (Edmonton)
🏢 Lives In Transition
📍 Edmonton