Our Bellevue office needs assistance, so we’re hiring an assistant.
Collegewise is hiring an assistant college counselor to help us take great care of the families who’ve hired us, and keep our office running smoothly during our busy season.
Who is Collegewise?
We’re a college counseling company that helps high school students find, apply to, and attend the right colleges for each student. You’d be helping our Director of College Counseling as she prepares “A” students, “C” students, and everyone in between with good advice, organization, and a little cheerleading to make sure everything happens smoothly and thoughtfully. Our goal isn’t to get every kid who works with us into an Ivy League school. Instead, our college counselors show families just how many wonderful colleges there are, helping our students apply and get accepted to schools they’re excited to attend.
What would you say ya’ do here?
This job is mostly administrative, a little customer service, and a bit tutoring. Here are some examples of things you might do in a given day working with us.
- Make (and feel free to drink) coffee in the morning. Must…have…coffee.
- Call students to confirm their appointments with counselors.
- Help a student understand required recommendations and help get all the paperwork organized.
- Print and copy materials for a seminar in the afternoon.
- Work on a research project to find interview requirements for students’ college lists.
- Review supplemental college essays and provide feedback.
- Answer the phone when it rings. Make a good first impression. Don’t use phrases like “A counselor will hit you back later.”
- Review student progress via our application management system and follow-up with any kids who have assignments due.
- Send out an email reminder to families registered for an upcoming seminar. No spelling or grammatical errors, please.
- Check our office supply stock and reorder any if necessary.
Who are we looking for?
We’d love to find people who have interest or experience working in education and helping students. But fit is more important than experience for this job. We enjoy working hard and doing a great job. We’d rather be forced to drink lizard spit than be that worker who shows up late, does sloppy work, or otherwise phones it in. We like working with other people who want to be proud of what they do every day. And we like to have fun here. If that resonates with you, you might really enjoy working with us.
What else should you know?
- Starting pay is $15 per hour.
- We’re looking for someone to work 5-8 hours per week, Mondays-Fridays (depending on your availability) from September to early December. There may be an opportunity to do additional work in 2016 as well.
- We’ll provide all the necessary training about college admissions and the Collegewise way of doing things.
What’s the next step?
If your interest is piqued, we invite you to get to know us a little better by looking around our website. Find out more about what we do, who you’d be working with and what we believe. If you like what you read and think you could find a professional home here, please email a resume and cover letter to our director, Katie Konrad Moore. Like a great college essay, we think a great cover letter should help us get to know who you really are. Don’t be afraid to be yourself—smart, thoughtful, maybe even funny. Just don’t be generic. We’ve also got five (totally unsolicited) tips for job seekers if you’d like them.
We hope to hear from you, but if we don’t, we hope you find a great gig someplace else.