-: My name is Miriam Gonzalez,
I am the admissions counselor
for Harrisburg Area Community College.
Another name for an admissions counselor
would be a recruiter.
I know, for my position, I go to high schools,
I do college fairs, just working with high school students
on obtaining their career goals at HACC.
I have days where I'm just in the office
doing the paperwork side of things,
and then, other days, I'm not, the whole day,
I'm not even in the office.
I have office hours in high schools,
where I spend the day in the high schools,
working one-on-one with students.
Then I have college fairs.
There's different community outreach programs
or events that I attend, as well,
for recruitment purposes, too,
and just constantly, I'm moving around, which is nice,
'cause then I don't get bored..
When I'm at a high school,
I'm just sitting with students who are interested
in either coming to HACC,
or we have this thing called dual enrollment,
where high school students could get college credits
while still attending high school.
So I work a lot with students that way,
so I sit down with them, one-on-one,
in discussing what classes to take,
test scores, different things like that.
And I also work with the guidance counselors there
on what the process is and what they should be
telling their students about us.
I kind of delegate.
I talk to students, I make sure everything,
you know, if anyone needs anything, I'll run and get it,
especially with open houses, 'cause there's a lot of people
that are involved, like faculty member come,
there's staff members from our Welcome Center,
things like that, so I kind of delegate,
and whatever they need, I get them, and of course,
if students have any questions about admissions,
I'm always there, I'm open to help them out.