What Does a Proprietary School Director of Admissions Do?

A very important career college job is the position of Director of Admissions.

What does a proprietary school director of admissions do?

First of all, a proprietary school is a two or four year, for profit career school that offers a diversity of subjects. Most of the for profit career schools or career colleges offer two year technical degrees in fields such as health care, engineering, graphic arts, other arts, business, or information technology.

A proprietary school director of admissions is typically responsible for managing a staff of admissions reps who endeavor to attract prospective students to their school or career college. The size of the staff the director will manage will vary by the size of the career school and career schools vary widely by the number of students attending.

The reason this is one of the more difficult career college jobs is that the Admissions Director must continually find creative ways to attract new students. In addition to attracting and recruiting students to the career college, the proprietary school director of admissions must keep the student retention rates high. The director of admissions will manage a staff most of the time unless the school is very small. If there is a staff there may be adult admissions reps and high school admissions reps reporting to the position. These individuals specialize in recruiting adult students to the campus or visit high schools to talk about what their particular career school has to offer.

In order to qualify with an executive recruiting firm, the proprietary school director of admissions must have prior experience as an admissions rep or admissions director.

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What Does a Proprietary School Director Do?

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There are many types of positions available within the for-profit school industry. One of the positions where potential candidates are most widely sought for career college jobs is the position of College Director/School Director/Executive Director/Proprietary School Director/School President (all the same thing).

What does a proprietary school director do? Where can a proprietary school director submit his or her resume? Does a qualified proprietary school executive director have to have experience in the for-profit career college field?

A proprietary school is a for-profit career college or four year college that can offer certificate, two year and four year degrees in a variety of diverse subjects. The proprietary school director also known as the proprietary school executive director or the proprietary school president is the person responsible for overseeing and managing all aspects of the career college. Everyone reports directly or indirectly to the school director.

The School Director holds one of the most difficult career college jobs.

The biggest responsibility of the school director is being responsible for the profit and loss of the whole career school (the branch office s/he is over). The main objective in a for-profit career college is to increase profits, but not at the expense of providing a poor educational experience for the students. The school director will be responsible for providing an educational environment that will retain and grow the student population while increasing profits accordingly.

A proprietary school director (proprietary school president or executive director) position is a very challenging and high stress position in a for-profit environment. It takes a solid leader to succeed in this industry.

The proprietary school director must have experience in the for-profit career school / college environment to work with an executive search firm. There are exceptions where outsiders can come into the for-profit career school environment, but those entries are typically as a result of the executive's own efforts and networking. With an executive search firm, the clients are paying the search firm to find candidates who already have experience in the field.

There are also cases where the school director has been promoted up through the ranks of a career college by working through other various positions such as director of admissions or dean of education. Once again, the search firm can place an admissions director but cannot place an admissions director into a school president or proprietary school executive director position.
There are a number of executive recruiting firms who specialize in the placement of the for-profit or proprietary school director.

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