Sector Training Activities

“Finding a Job, Keeping a Job”

“Finding a Job, Keeping a Job” will provide participants with a general overview of employment services, the values and principles that should underpin their operation, and a wide range of practical skills to locate, secure and maintain quality jobs for people with disabilities in open employment.  All “Finding a Job, Keeping a Job” presenters are experienced practitioners and managers of disability employment services.

Module 1:

Finding a Job

• Quality Employment
• Services
• Matching Jobs
• Generating Job Leads
• Marketing Job Seekers
• Securing Jobs

Module 2:

Keeping a Job

• Establishing Partnerships
• Analysing Jobs
• Integrating Workers
• Instructing Workers
• Sustaining Jobs

 LEARNING OUTCOMES:

At the end of this course participants will be equipped to:

• Collect necessary information to match suitable jobs to job seekers’ skills, abilities and interests.
• Promote individual job seekers and your agency to employers in a professional, responsive and enticing way.
• Sell the unique benefits and advantages of your agency and people with disabilities as valued employees.
• Overcome employer concerns and manage the job seeker interview process.
• Establish an ongoing partnership between the employee, the employer, the support network and your agency.
• Apply a series of powerful on-the-job training techniques to bring the employee to maximum productivity in minimum time.
• Make maximum use of natural supports in the workplace to train, support and advocate for co-workers with disabilities.
• Harness and train co-workers to enhance natural supports in the workplace.
• Consolidate employee motivation, independence and tenure through effective and efficient maintenance strategies.