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Effective Career Planning for Job Seekers with Disabilities

Effective Career Planning for Job Seekers with Disabilities . Institute for Community Inclusion Umass Boston www.communityinclusion.org. Identify Yourself !. DISABILITY. What does it mean to you?. Disability. Includes wide range of conditions Impact on people’s lives varies

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Effective Career Planning for Job Seekers with Disabilities

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  1. Effective Career Planning for Job Seekers with Disabilities Institute for Community Inclusion Umass Boston www.communityinclusion.org

  2. Identify Yourself!

  3. DISABILITY What does it mean to you?

  4. Disability • Includes wide range of conditions • Impact on people’s lives varies • Often not apparent

  5. Be careful of blanket assumptions about disability and people with disabilities Disability is individualized and idiosynchratic

  6. One-Stop Customers • Job Seekers • Employers

  7. Marketing as Education Every conversation you have with an employer about an individual with a disability contains both implicit and explicit disability awareness education.

  8. Job Seekers with Disabilities • People who have an apparent disability and/or disclose their disability to you • People who have a non-apparent disability and choose not to disclose • People who are not aware they have a disability

  9. Getting to Know You:Current One-Stop Assessment Practices Interest inventories Achievement tests Aptitude tests Personality assessments Intelligence Testing

  10. Shortcomings of Testing for People with Disabilities • When modified, scores are uncertain • Tests that reflect disability do not provide info about potential • Predictive assessments used in a different environment are limited • Norm-referenced difficulties: most pen/paper tests were standardized on people without disabilities

  11. HOW DO WE FIND OUT WHAT PEOPLE WANT? What interests them? What motivates them?

  12. Individualized Career Planning • Rally the troops • Tap into those resources! • Who knows them well? Who can help identify skills/abilities? • Develop a Vocational Profile • Likes and dislikes • Past experiences • Skills and abilities • See “Job Development Planning Tool” • Identify Employment Outcomes • Job choice • Environment of choice • Develop Placement Plan -Matching interests & supports

  13. Critical Elements of Career Planning • Customer Driven • Focus on Desires, Strengths, Abilities • Get to Know Him/Her: Ask, “Why?” • Ongoing Process • Respecting Preferences and Choices

  14. Job Seeker Planning Tool • A good job is a good match. • What’s your profile?

  15. Alternative Methods of Exploration and Assessment • What are they? • Who sets them up? • What can they tell you or your customer?

  16. Situational assessments Job shadowing Tours Informational interviews Volunteering Taking a class Alternative Assessments

  17. How to… • Use existing employer relationships • Use job development techniques • Use your customer’s and your networks • Be considerate of employer’s time and restrictions • Be clear about purpose and role

  18. Employer/Career Research • Information about labor market trends • Job requirements and environments • Level of education and experience • Availability of jobs

  19. Research Resources • Job listings • Newspaper articles • Employer web sites • http://online.onetcenter.org/

  20. Long Term Employment Success Requires that potential support needs and barriers be identified and addressed, prior to placement

  21. Anticipating Needs • Individual support needs vary • Anticipate and address support needs during job search • Focus on needs on the job as well as external needs (e.g., housing) which can impact employment • Focus on concrete (e.g., transportation) & personal supports (e.g., need for supportive co-worker)

  22. Potential Job Support Issues • Transportation • Child care • Non-work meetings/appointments/obligations • Benefits management • Money management • Personal organization skills • Housing • Clothing/uniform

  23. Support on the Job:Two Areas to Look At • Accomplishing job tasks • Fitting into work culture & understanding social rituals

  24. Addressing Support Needs • Identify and provide assistance in accessing resources (transportation, benefit planners) • Focus on potential placements which are good skill & work culture match with sufficient level of on-the-job supports • Accommodations: identify & arrange • Determine need for post placement support (job coach, counseling, peer support post-placement, etc.) and identify source

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