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Job Readiness
Job Readiness
Job readiness assessment and training may include, but is not limited to the following:
- Assisting and Instructing client's with Writing a resume;
- Completing a job application
- Assistance in arranging for and preparing for job interviews
- Workplace behaviors;
- Identifying transportation options;
- Personal appearance, attendance, and punctuality;
- Positive work attitudes, job performance, and safety practices
- Interpersonal skills;
- Development of a personal budget; and/or
- Individual and group counseling of clients on job retention skills.
Job Placement Services:
Job Placement services are those services in which we actively and directly assist the client in activities which lead to the client maintaining appropriate employment. “Appropriate” employment is:
- Consistent with the client’s strengths, priorities, concerns, abilities, capabilities, interests, and informed choice;
- In a competitive integrated setting, consistent with the client’s informed choice; and
- Job placement services include but are not limited to:
- Working with the client to develop a list of potential employment opportunities;
- Contacting an employer on behalf of the client;
- Assisting the client with job applications/interviews
- Job coaching services may be provided as an on-the-job support service on an individualized basis and depending on the client’s particular needs. Services may include:
- Training a client on-the-job to perform a specific job duty,
- Orienting a client to the workplace, and/or
- Assisting a client with developing positive work habits and positive behaviors with co-workers and supervisors.
DEFINITION OF SERVICES:
A job coach will;
- Provide on-site training to familiarize the client with specific job demands,
- Assist the client to develop positive relationships with co-workers and intercede when problems or difficulties become known,
- Assist the client to develop a standard of production acceptable to the employer,
- Identify and address problems that will affect the client’s ability to maintain employment,
- Ability to implement the most effective, least intrusive techniques to help the client learn job skills including teaching client how to use available transportation to and from the job site,
- Assist the client to become more independent by developing natural supports so that job coaching services can be successfully faded from the job site,
- Provide disability awareness information to the client’s supervisor and co-workers.
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