Student Services Adviser
What the work is
Assists post-secondary education students to achieve their academic and personal goals by providing a wide range of services and support.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Provides guidance and support to post-secondary education students on a range of issues, including academic and personal issues
- Provides information and guidance on financial aid and scholarship opportunities
- Assists students with administrative procedures such as registration, enrolment, withdrawal and academic appeals
- Coordinates student accommodation services and student support programs, such as peer mentoring
- Organises and facilitates orientation programs to help new students become acclimated to campus life
- May support international students with visa requirements, cultural adjustments and academic advising
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a careers office at a fictional senior secondary school. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A student who was sure they had no options leaves with three ideas they like
- A past student pops in to say the path you helped plan worked out
- A parent and teenager leave a meeting agreeing, which they did not at the start
Hard days
- A rush of subject choices that all have to be signed by the same Friday
- A student who wants a job you know is very hard to get into
- Being asked for certainty about the future when nobody has it
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 259933, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.