Career Closet Intern
Career Center
Campus: Manhattan
The Career Center facilitates the career readiness of all students in the K-State community. We help students explore their interests and values, develop their potential through internships and involvement, teach them to tell their story through resumes and interviews, and connect them with employers and opportunities. We offer individual advising, assessments, workshops, career classes, and events that help clients explore majors and careers, develop job search strategies, and make direct links to employers interested in hiring K-State students.
This position is responsible for managing the clothing donations for the Career Center.
Qualifications:
- Strong organization and planning skills
- Good attention to detail
- Database management skills
- Excellent communication and customer service skills
- Strong problem solving skills
- Self-motivated, proactive, and team-oriented attitude
- Knowledge or interest in apparel and textiles
Responsibilities:
- Manage in-take system for donated clothing
- Sort, classify, and organize clothing items
- Provide input about the physical layout and furnishing of the Closet space
- Coordinate merchandising, displays and special promotions
- Assist students with clothing selection and care of professional attire
- Prepare reports that summarize usage and other program metrics
- Other duties as assigned
Hourly Wage: $9.00
Conditions of Appointment:
Flexible scheduling of 10-15 hours per week (anticipate more around events). May involve some weekends for clothing drives at K-State and community functions.
Application: submit the following via Handshake
- letter of interest
- resume
- Names, emails and telephone numbers of three professional references
Application materials may be addressed to Teresa Parks.
Application Deadline: May 1, 2025
Questions
If you have questions, please contact Mary Ewing, HCS Liaison, at mewing@k-state.edu.