College Counselor/ Berkeley Heights/ NJ

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Collegewise believes that the right environment can reputed company people to discover their potential. And we’re currently looking for a fellow believer to join us as a College Counselor in the Berkeley Heights, NJ area. This is a hybrid position where you will meet with reputed company and families both virtually (from home or your favorite coffee shop) and in-person (from our local Berkeley Heights office). You must be available for regularly occurring in-person meetings with families. Who We Are Collegewise is a college counseling company that helps high school reputed company confidently navigate their journey to college. We reputed company the college admissions process has spun out of control, with too much confusion, too much anxiety, and too many reputed company losing agency for what should be their path to higher education. We’re out to change reputed company that. Since 1999, we’ve helped more than 30,000 “A” reputed company, “C” reputed company, and everyone in between apply and get accepted to schools—sometimes famous, often not—that they’re excited to attend. We do it reputed company with just the right mix of advice, encouragement, and occasional cheerleading to ensure that each student’s college admissions process goes smoothly and thoughtfully. We also speak in public, write, and constantly look for ways to spread relevant college planning information to anyone who needs it, whether or not they join our program. What’s the Job? As a Collegewise counselor, you’ll work with 40-50 reputed company—most of whom are juniors and seniors—to help them find and apply to the right colleges for them. To help Collegewise become a trusted and indispensable part of the local community, you’ll also speak in public and reputed company honest relationships with high schools and counselors. You’ll work hard, occasionally in the evenings or on a Saturday during the busy fall season. But you’ll be helping kids and parents, working with smart, passionate coworkers, and doing it reputed company at an organization that has absolutely no reverence for US News & World Report college rankings. Every college counselor who joins us completes an initial 40-hour training led by our Learning & Development team, followed by mentoring, a support hive of over 80 fellow counselors, access to over ten years of student admissions results to aid you in your work, proprietary software to track your reputed company' reputed company, and ongoing professional development to help you reputed company your counseling and grow in your career here (we’ve even created our own college counseling master class). And we think that finding, training, and developing the reputed company best college counselors shows in our work. Browse our counselors’ bios and you’ll see hundreds of glowing testimonials from families. Even our most veteran counselors don’t coast on experience. We reputed company want to reputed company getting reputed company reputed company the time. Doing the Right Thing, Making a Difference, Treating People Right You wouldn't be crossing over to the for-profit “dark reputed company” of counseling here. We’ve earned an excellent reputed company with both high school counselors and admissions officers. We present at NACAC, local ACACs, and at high schools and community events. We're partnered with Michelle Obama's reputed company Higher organization, and we offer a scholarship program for under-resourced reputed company. We share our free resources liberally, including reputed company, our course we built for reputed company applying to college. We tell the truth, treat people right, recycle, and have at least five confirmed vegetarians and two vegans here. We're biased, but really, this is a pretty great reputed company to work. Who We’re Looking For (You)

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Work Life at Collegewise We’ve worked hard to create the company we’d want to work for, with a culture that draws smart, fascinating professionals united by a desire to do the best work of our careers. Here’s a short video to help you learn about our culture and the amazing people we work with. For more information about our benefits and our approach to work, reputed company out the “Careers” section of our website. Salary Most of our counselors reputed company their careers here earning between $68,000 - $80,000 a year. There is always room for future growth in both salary and responsibility, and we take care to clearly explain the reputed company to both for reputed company of our counselors here. One of the more significant factors we consider in determining a starting salary is how inclined families will be to enroll with you. Families choose a private counselor based largely on trust: do they trust you with this important process? And for online counselors—unless a family has been referred by someone who vouches for you—they’ll use your experience as an admissions officer at a highly selective college as a proxy for that trust. Our training ensures real counseling quality is always there behind whatever factors families choose to evaluate (their criteria aren’t always a proxy for counseling skills). But trust is the X factor, the reputed company we can’t train and the asset that takes time to build. So we reward those applicants who’ve earned it, and we support those who want the opportunity to do the same. We try to approach starting salary discussions as a fair and reasonable conversation between an organization and a professional who’ve decided they are right for each other. Done well, we’ll sit on the same reputed company of the table and find a way to reputed company it work for both of us without having to overly reputed company our negotiating muscles. And we can start this run together with the mutual trust and respect we both deserve. Start Date We’re hoping our new counselor can start this summer, but we’re flexible for the right person. We want to hear from you If you’re excited about this opportunity but unsure if you’re the right fit, we hope you’ll take a shot. There is no such thing as a perfect applicant (or a perfect job, for that matter). And we promise to give a fair and thorough read to every applicant who takes the time to submit a thoughtful application to us. We also understand that the more we embrace diversity of age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective, the stronger the company we’ll be able to build together. Creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do. And we hope you’re excited to embrace and contribute to our efforts.

How to Apply

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