Career Advisor

New York, NY    

Summary

The Career and Alumni Resource Center of a top-tier international law firm is hiring a Career Advisor to provide career guidance and coaching to lawyers and alumni. The Career Advisor will be an integral part of the firm’s innovative Career and Alumni Resource Center, which provides career counseling to current and former lawyers of the firm at all stages in their careers.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Provide individualized career counseling to associates and alumni, including identifying opportunities, resume and cover letter review, interview preparation, networking best practices and offer evaluation. Serve as a general resource for lawyers as they explore career paths after leaving the firm
• Source in-house and other professional opportunities for lawyers using the Resource Center
• Serve as a networking resource to associates and alumni by facilitating connections, working with clients and developing relationships with select external recruiters
• Work with partners, clients and alumni to identify candidates for key job openings
• Research and stay abreast of legal market employment trends
• Develop and update resources for lawyers to utilize as part of their career transition

In addition, responsibilities related to maintaining firm and client information are to be adhered to by all employees. This includes complying with the firm’s information security policies, protecting firm assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference, and reporting security events or potential events or other security risks to management.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of legal hiring trends and practices
• Ability to develop strong relationships and trust
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Highly organized and self-directed approach to managing multiple projects simultaneously; excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• High level of judgment, discretion and ethics with the ability to maintain confidentiality

Education and/or experience

Required:

• 5-10+ years of experience in career coaching and/or in-house recruiting, preferably in the legal industry or other professional services firm
• Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel

Preferred:

• J.D. and experience as a practicing attorney
• Significant experience sourcing and placing attorneys into in-house roles

Work environment 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.