Career Development Advisor - Dubai Campus

EF Education; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A global education organization in Dubai is seeking a Career Development Advisor to coach students on securing job opportunities. This role involves delivering workshops, providing personalized coaching sessions, and leveraging networks to enhance student engagement and job readiness. Candidates should have a background in recruitment, excellent communication skills, and a passion for empowering students. Join us in fostering an inclusive and dynamic educational environment.

Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience in recruitment and job market dynamics.
• Previous career advisory experience valued.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver workshops on career fundamentals.
• Provide one-on-one coaching sessions for students.
• Help students leverage their networks for job opportunities.

Skills

Communication skills

Career advising

Content creation

Event management

Networking

Education

Undergraduate degree

Tools

Canva

Job description

The Opportunity

You will be joining a global team of passionate Career Development Advisors who excel at coaching students to secure great jobs opportunities around the world. This role will be based out of our Dubai Campus, focusing on the UAE and wider GCC market in a lean, all hands on deck operational environment. The role contains multiple priorities namely student advising, student engagement for events and initiatives and spotlighting the value of Hult Students to employers in the local job market.

You will be working with students to kickstart their early careers journeys in the region, whilst utilising your knowledge of globalised working trends, HR and recruitment best practices and understanding of the localised work culture in the GCC. You will draw on your excellent communication and job search strategy skills to deliver workshops, one-to-one advising sessions and contribute to building a robust network of employer partners to place Hult students each year.

Ability to use a creative approach and content creation skills to ensure engagement from students from a GenZ demographic will be key, coupled with a nothing is impossible mindset and desire to be part of a high growth, entrepreneurial business school.

Responsibilities

• Career Skilling – Deliver a series of interactive workshops covering all career and job search fundamentals – Resume, LinkedIn, Personal Branding, Networking, Pitching, Interviewing
• Career Platform – Students have access to online tools and resources that allow them to learn at their own pace and on their own timeline. Contribute to update new resources and knowledge to the platform, and forward to students curated materials, insights and advise on an ongoing basis.
• Career Advising – Provide 1:1 coaching sessions to support students in identifying target jobs and establishing an action plan for achieving job success. Set student expectations and understanding the nuances of a competitive job market.
• Career Connections – Work with students to help them build and leverage their existing networks, and to build new relationships in order to gain access to their own job opportunities. Support them to intelligently navigate the Hult Alumni Ecosystem and to participate in #HultHIresHult job opportunities.
• Market Readiness – Utilise AI tools to ensure students are “market ready” with their professional documentation and build a CV look book to distribute to the network
• Relationship Building – Build a rapport with your students YOY in order to collect annual employment data and document their successes for rankings and employability

Key Requirements

• Belief in and desire to participate in the Hult mission for educating, inspiring and empowering students from more than 150 different countries, to carve a career path in international business, and transform their lives and the lives of others in the process.
• 5 years’ experience of building recruitment expertise and best practices, most in demand roles and skills and overall market dynamics, regionally and nationally. Deep knowledge and network in one or more functional areas and/or one or more industry sectors is highly valued.
• Previous career advisory experience and knowledge of student development and career counselling practices is highly valued but not a showstopper - assessment tools, career planning models, career communications including social media, and job search execution.
• Previous use of Canva and content creation with a tasteful creative vision
• Ability to visualise and create infographics that are digestible to the student audience
• Previous end to end event management experience with proven operations / event facilitation / project management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Undergraduate degree required, everything additional including post graduate degrees, certificates, credentials, formal trainings is highly valued.
• Resourceful, Curious, Sustained Positive Energy.

About us

Hult is a new kind of non-profit business school that constantly innovates to meet the needs of students, employers, and society in a world that is changing faster than ever before. More than a business school, Hult is a dynamic and multicultural community that educates, inspires, and connects some of the most forward-thinking business talent from around the world.

What we do

Hult International Business School is a non-profit educational pioneer and the first triple accredited US business school. Ranked by the Financial Times, Economist, Forbes, and Bloomberg Businessweek, Hult offers undergraduate, graduate, and executive education programs across its global campuses in Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai, and New York. The school’s philosophy is that business skills can only truly be learned by doing. By immersing students from all over the world in practical, hands‑on experiences from day one, this fresh approach to education is creating a global community of confident, entrepreneurially minded graduates, ready to tackle the challenges of tomorrow.

Solving problems and overcoming challenges is what our students do: all year, every year. We bring together creative, open‑minded people from all over the world to find solutions to the world’s most pressing issues by doing business, not just studying it so they graduate with the skills and the mindset to be ready for anything. And now we’re looking for a talented workforce that think the same way.

We seek to promote an environment for our students, faculty, and staff that welcomes people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, races, religions, genders, sexual identities, abilities, and personal circumstances in a spirit of inclusivity and belonging. At Hult, we believe that it’s through our diversity that we find our strength.