Healthcare Career Placement & Student Job Readiness Specialist

Healthcare Career Placement & Student Job Readiness Specialist

Unitek Learning is a leading healthcare education organization focused on preparing the next generation of nurses and healthcare professionals. Through its family of institutions, including Unitek College of Nursing, Eagle Gate College, Provo College, Brookline College, and Unitek EMT, Unitek delivers career-focused education designed to help students build meaningful careers while addressing critical workforce needs across the healthcare industry. Through our Workforce Solutions segment, Unitek partners with hospitals and health systems to create sustainable talent pipelines and expand access to healthcare education through employer-based training and workforce development programs nationwide.

Job Description

Help healthcare students turn their education into a career! Do you enjoy coaching people, building employer relationships, and seeing your work produce measurable results? Unitek College is looking for a relationship-driven professional who can help healthcare students and graduates prepare for interviews, connect with employers, and secure meaningful employment in their field. This is not a traditional desk-based advising role. You will work directly with students, graduates, healthcare employers, faculty, and campus leaders to move people from the classroom into the workforce.

What you will do:

• Coach students and graduates on resumes, job-search strategies, interviewing, networking, and professional communication.
• Build relationships with healthcare employers to generate externship-to-hire and direct-hire opportunities.
• Connect graduates with job openings, interviews, hiring events, and employer introductions.
• Lead job-readiness workshops, classroom presentations, mock interviews, and career events.
• Manage a student and graduate caseload, maintain consistent follow-up, and help candidates work through barriers affecting employment.
• Track employer outreach, student engagement, interviews, placements, and employment outcomes in company systems.
• Partner with faculty, campus leadership, and externship teams to improve graduate employment and externship-to-hire results.

How you will know you are succeeding: This is a results-driven role. Success includes:

• Students complete required career-readiness activities on time.
• Graduates remain engaged throughout the job search.
• Employer relationships produce qualified interview and hiring opportunities.
• Externship and clinical experiences convert into employment when possible.
• Assigned programs meet or exceed graduate employment expectations.
• Records remain accurate, complete, and ready for reporting or audit.

You may be a strong fit if you have experience in:

• Career services or graduate placement
• Staffing or recruiting
• Healthcare recruiting
• Workforce development
• Employer relations or account management
• Admissions or enrollment advising
• Business development or community outreach
• High-volume case management in a performance-driven environment

Qualifications

What experience you will bring:

• At least five years of combined experience in career services, recruiting, staffing, workforce development, employer relations, account management, admissions, outreach, or a closely related field.
• At least two years of direct experience in coaching, advising, placement, recruiting, business development, or relationship management.
• The ability to build rapport while still holding students and graduates accountable.
• Strong follow-through and the ability to manage deadlines, competing priorities, and a high-volume caseload.
• Confidence communicating with students, graduates, healthcare employers, faculty, and campus leaders.
• Comfort working with performance metrics, databases, CRM systems, and detailed documentation.
• A bachelor's degree is preferred, but directly relevant experience and demonstrated performance will also be considered.

This role is a particularly good match for someone who:

• Enjoys both coaching people and developing business relationships.
• Gets satisfaction from helping someone land a job.
• Works with urgency and does not wait for candidates or employers to come to them.
• Can balance empathy with accountability.
• Likes measurable goals and knows how to adjust when results fall behind.
• Is comfortable representing the college in the Reno healthcare community.

Additional Information

We Offer:

• Medical, Dental and Vision starting the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment
• 2 Weeks' starting Vacation per year. Increasing based on years of service with the company
• 12 paid Holidays and 2 Floating Holiday
• 401K with a Company Match
• Company Paid Life Insurance at 1x's your annual salary
• Leadership development and training for career advancement
• Tuition assistance and Forgiveness for you and your family up to 100%, depending on the program