The goal of work force readiness efforts is to empower people to get into the right jobs.  We want the customer/client/student to take as much responsibility for understanding the process as possible, offering assistance where needed.

Self Counseling

Information disseminated in the self-service mode needs to be designed with that specific purpose in mind. Resources provided in self-service mode need to be easy to use.

The following Job Search skills programs and Job Market Research tools are designed to enhance a customer's chances for employability.

• Employability & Work Maturity - one hundred thirty-four(134) lessons designed to allow older youth and adults with limited reading skills to develop the skills that are critical to the process of selecting, obtaining, and maintaining employment. This program is divided into four modules and 16 topic sections:
  • Career Decision Making - consists of twenty-six (26) lessons that teach students how to make career decisions by relating job requirements to their personal characteristics and priorities.
  • Job Seeking Skills - consists of twenty-five (25) lessons that teach students how to conduct a job search, complete job applications, write resumes and job search letters, perform appropriately in job interviews, and follow-up after job interviews.
  • Work Maturity Skills - consists of forty-two (42) lessons that teach students how to perform in a manner that will help them to be successful at work
  • Worker Effectiveness Skills - consists of 41 lessons and covers the topics of Teamwork, Leadership, Building Self-Esteem, Problem-Solving and Responsible Behavior (including Nutrition, STD's, Drugs & Alcohol).
• Enter Here is a complete career information library of 100 VHS videos that will supplement any employability or guidance program.
• OASYS Job Match - Job Seeker's Workstation: enables job seekers (clients/customers) to use parts of OASYS without the assistance of a counselor. It is intended for use by organizations who want job seekers to play a greater role in employment activities. It contains personal data entry, occupational exploration, career path development and job searching functions. This component can also be used by technicians who could be responsible for entering some of the above data.
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Staff Counseling

• CareerScope Informs the decisions people make by helping them understand how their unique interests and aptitudes mesh with the requirements of jobs.
• CareerScope Interest Inventory (CSII) -  an easy-to-use, affordablepaper-pencil interest assessment that conforms to the National Career Development Association’s guidelines. The CareerScope® Interest Inventory results are critical in beginning the career or educational planning process.
• OASYS Job March matches a person’s skills and abilities to occupations using an AbilityProfile and transferable skills analysis. It also compares a job seeker’s profile to any occupation to determine how closely they match. Using the occupation-to-industry matrix for finding employers likely to hire is also included. The Counselor component also interacts with the job referral process and enables review of the Job Seeker tracking records.
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