Business Services Professional/Business Relat

GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION                                                                                                                                           

Responsible for working with local employers to meet their talent needs. The BRC will assist with sourcing and screening candidates for employment opportunities, plan and oversee hiring events and job fairs, provide outreach and recruitment assistance, collaborate with Career Planners/Talent Development Specialists to find and place qualified candidates in those jobs, and keep up-to-date on state and federal employment programs that may benefit employers.

  QUALIFICATIONS                                                                                                                                           

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing/Sales, Business Administration, Human Resource Development, or related field strongly preferred. BSP Certified strongly preferred. 

Other:

At least two years of experience in sales, recruiting, job placement and/or job development. Good interpersonal skills for communication with job seekers, employers, staff, and the public. Ability to establish and maintain ongoing relationships with business owner and their representatives. Composition skills sufficient to prepare required reports. Intermediate to advanced level of proficiency using MS Excel, databases both pc and web based.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES                                                                                                                                   

• Advocate for and link customers to community services and assist in assessing available support services.
• Maintain and provide reports tracking customer information, attendance and activity to ensure necessary services are received in accordance with funding source requirements.
• Maintain an awareness of local labor market information and refer customers to job leads or to other staff with job leads as appropriate.
• Build strategic connections with employers and area businesses and agencies to encourage their use of Gesher employment related services including but not limited to posting jobs on internal/external databases, participating in job seeker events, and training.
• Attend area networking and business events to build departmental and agency network of participating businesses. 
• Market Michigan Works business related services Going Pro Talent Fund, and other employer related grants and initiatives.
• Partner with Talent Development Specialists to match local employers and business needs with job seekers to develop on the job training, apprenticeship opportunities, and other services to help reach the job seekers employment goals.
• Determine employer and customer eligibility for employer related services and programs.
• Use contacts and other resources to seek appropriate connections for job seekers for informational interviews, job openings, and mentoring. Utilize placement and job development techniques to develop employment opportunities consistent with participants’ interests and abilities. Maintain a database of community members willing to be available for mentorship and informational interviews.
• Partner with local employers and businesses to design targeted recruitment, training and screening of candidates.
• Partner with local employers and businesses to develop on the job training and apprenticeship opportunities for job seekers.
• Identify community organization and have the capacity to host community service internship for customers.
• Present workshops on employment topics to job seekers.
• Participate in district wide job development meetings and initiatives as assigned.
• Other duties as assigned.

  WORKING CONDITIONS                                                                                                                                           

Environmental conditions:

• Moderate noise (i.e., business office with computers, phone, and printers, light traffic).
• Ability to work in a confined area.
• Ability to sit at a computer terminal for an extended period. 

Physical requirements:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to, stand, sit; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard, reach, stoop, kneel to install computer equipment.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work.
• Light to moderate lifting in required. 

Accommodation(s):

As appropriate and fiscally reasonable.

 NON-EXEMPT