Academic Advisor

Position: Academic Counsellor

Reporting to: Associate Manager

About Us:
CollegeDekho is a disruptive development platform that connects students to colleges. CollegeDekho are enablers of student admissions wherein they help students discover the right career choices. Some of its unique features include step-by-step college search from over more than 500 partner colleges in India using a technology driven, multi-layered assessment mechanism. Collegedekho is also the first ed-tech company in India to provide a comprehensive 360-degree process of student counseling for higher education. In addition, CollegeDekho prides itself on having the first AI powered Chatbot to help students with their educational queries.

Driven by the vision to make career and college guidance to be all-pervasive across India, CollegeDekho has driven sustained sequential growth since its inception. CollegeDekho is now guiding students not only to study in India but abroad as well in the USA, UK, Europe, South-East Asia etc. It has a strong hybrid presence, with on-ground cafes in major cities PAN India.

CollegeDekho provides a transparent and open platform that facilitates interaction between students and colleges.

It provides information about colleges, courses, entrance exam details, admission notifications, and changes in exam pattern, scholarships and all related topics. It supports students in selecting relevant career study options based on their strengths and guides them through the admission process.

CollegeDekho has counselled more than 1.2 million students till date and has helped more than 15,000 students take admission to a college of their choice and potential.

CollegeDekho has raised a funding of $12 million (approx), which is being used to strengthen our ability to create more engaging internal and customer-facing technologies and enhance our customer engagement.

Who are we looking for:
We are looking for smart and dynamic people, who are passionate about helping students realise their dreams by guiding them making judicious & informed decisions about their education and career.

The successful applicant would thrive on a challenging role, and be a great advisor to both the student’s and their parent’s. We would like to invite people who have worked in or would like to work with progressive organizations, as part of a successful team to come and join us.

If you think you would enjoy working in a fast paced, growth-oriented organization, you are the right person for us.

What would you be expected to do:

- Upon your joining, you will go through an intensive training program where you will be taught counselling skills, and about internal technical systems
- You would then be assigned to teams, with a buddy to help you get answers to your routine, day to day questions
- Once settled, you would be expected to counsel students on the phone with basis the knowledge and training imparted to you at time of onboarding.
- The counselling will lead to forms filling for admission, and ultimately to admission in our partner colleges as per your assigned targets.
- You will also have directly access to the colleges as and when required and help in admission conversion process.
- You would be expected to maintain daily MIS on the calls attended and walk in’s attended (if any).

Skills you should possess:

- Experience - 1 to 3 Years
- Education: Graduate
- Inherent ability to have engaging conversations
- Excellent listening skills
- Excellent communications skills (English) and interpersonal skills
- Self-starter and ability to execute high velocity closures
- Ability to work in low supervision but high ownership environment
- Genuine interest in helping people succeed

**Salary**: ₹16,000.00 - ₹30,000.00 per month

**Benefits**:

- Health insurance

Schedule:

- Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Gurgaon, Haryana: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (preferred)

**Experience**:

- total work: 1 year (preferred)
- Academic counseling: 1 year (preferred)

**Language**:

- English (preferred)

**Speak with the employer**
+91 8595431747