Student Strommen Center Career Peer Advisor Academic Year 2025-26
Student Strommen Center Career Peer Advisor Academic Year 2025-26
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Job Description
As an integral part of the Strommen team Career Peer Advisors will connect with the student body of Augsburg. Peer Advisors (PAs) mentor students in making effective major and career choices through career education and careerrelated activities.
Peer advisors have the opportunity to expand skills in communicating presenting problem solving teamwork and leadership. Additionally PAs staff in dropin hours to assist Augsburg students on resume and cover letter reviews internship and job searching strategies and other career related topics. PAs take part in training and regular meetings to develop their career management skills.
Peer advisors must be available the week prior to classes starting August 26th28th 2025 between the hours of 10am and 3pm for mandatory paid training.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Welcome visitors to the Strommen Center
- Assisting students with Navigate and Handshake our online career portal
- Assisting students with resume and cover letter writing beginning steps of job and internship searches and connecting to career planning resources
- Connect students with opportunities to build relationships with alumni and others through informational interviews and job shadowing.
- Assist with outreach and education including
- Promoting career services through tabling presentations job fairs etc.
- Creating content for social media and the Strommen website as well as designing marketing materials in Canva
- Support Strommen Centers operations through completion of projects that may include (but are not limited to) liaison to campus groups outreach graduation survey data entry in Handshake event planning student experiences interviews and research. Peer advisors have the opportunity to focus in project areas such as:
- Marketing & communication
- Employer engagement
- Community engagement/student group liaison
- Attendance at regular supervisor checkins and staff meetings as able.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Able to effectively communicate verbally and in writing with others one on one and in groups.
- Develop teamwork skills by collaborating with peers Strommen staff and other members of the Augsburg Community.
- Become familiar with and utilize career skills such as coaching project planning and goal setting.
Qualifications :
- Current Augsburg student secondyear or above with enthusiasm for helping peers
- Interest in becoming a student expert to help others explore careers and use the resources of the Strommen Center
- Building relationships and written & verbal communication skills including the ability to listen advise teach and explain in 1on1 advising conversations tabling events and presentations
- Manage multiple priorities of student walkin traffic outreach/education and special projects
- Attention to detail and followthrough
- Resourcefulness and skills in creative problemsolving
- Able to work between 58 hours per week (may include occasional evenings and weekends)
Additional Information :
Augsburg University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees regardless of their race creed color religion gender age national origin disability military service protected veteran status genetic information sexual orientation gender identity transgender status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete our application process please contact the Human Resources department by phone at 612.330.1058 or email at Human Resources is located at 19 Memorial Hall.
Application Instructions:
All student applicants must attach the following for consideration:
- Resume (required)
- Cover Letter (optional but strongly encouraged)
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Parttime
Employment Type
Part-time
