[Hiring] Career Guidance Counsellor Dubai UAE
Position: Career Guidance Counsellor
Date posted: 2024-05-11
Industry: Education
Employment type: Full Time
Experience: 2 year
Qualification: Bachelor’s Degree holder
Salary: AED 5000 to 10000
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Company: Scholars International Academy
Description:
Scholars International Academy is looking to hire a dynamic and highly motivated Career Guidance Counsellor for the academic year 2024-25.
Key Responsibilities:
- To use a scaffolding approach to help students, exploring, generating, and building career options with students.
- Handling formal psychometric assessments and counselling students.
- Developing the portfolio and exploration of courses and universities within the career clusters.
- Guiding the students through making decisions about their careers/ degree to pursue.
- Helping students on various entrance examinations, writing of personal statements, supporting the university application process; full documentation and submission of documents for college admission.
- Managing the individual counselling sessions with parents to be undertaken to discuss specific career options.
- Evaluating students’ abilities and interests through aptitude assessments, interviews, and individual planning.
- Working with students to develop skills, such as organisational and time management abilities and effective study habits.
- Liaising with external career consultants, universities (Local and International).
- Organising Career Fairs/ University presentations. Presenting opportunities for students to attend Career Exhibitions, Organising career guidance workshops.
- Assisting and organising local/ International trips to universities.
- Supporting the Community Service Outreach programs will be an added advantage.
- Ability to develop internship opportunities.
- Ability to create opportunities and experiences for students to explore their interests and passions.
Requirements to Apply:
- Degree in Sociology or Social Work.
- A minimum of 2 years of experience (in UAE) as a Guidance Counsellor.
- A high command of written and spoken English.
Please include ‘Career Guidance Counsellor Application’ in the subject line.
Note: SIA is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all its students. Applicants will be required to submit a current police criminal clearance check or equivalent from their home country or current country of residence prior to the appointment.
