Placement Issues

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Placement Issues
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How Consumers are doing Vocationally

• 8 of Americans have work limitations only 42.4
  are working
• Men working with limitations 62.5 in Minnesota,
  26.1 in West Virginia
• The employment of men and women with
  disabilities, surprisingly, fell over the entire
  1990s business cycle

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What Consumers Want from Work

• Inclusion and Respect
• Being listened to by their employer
• A good job match that utilizes their capabilities

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Barriers to Employment

• Transportation
• Child Care
• Medical Benefits

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Dual Labor Markets

• Studies suggest that secondary sector jobs,
  rather than being just the entry point into the
  broader economy and good jobs, actually comprise
  a separate self-contained labor market.

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Primary vs. Secondary Jobs

• Higher wages benefits
• Better working conditions
• Employment security
• More autonomy
• More training Opportunities

• Lower wages, few benefits
• Harsher working conditions
• More lay-offs
• Little autonomy
• Few training opportunities

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Where the Jobs are

• Shift from Manufacturing to Service jobs
• (think Carrier)
• Formal Education Vital!

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Salary Levels

• Mean Salary 31,982
• White-Collar 39,590
• Blue Collar 28,822
• Service 16,957
• Metropolitan 32,598
• Non-Metro 26,877
• Mid-Atlantic 35,811
• East-South Center 27,375

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Characteristics of Open Employers

• Work Culture Issues
• Good Job Match
• Experience and Support

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Accessibility and Universal Design

• Ecological Ergonomics-- the relationship between
  the person and the environment in the context of
  work
• Human factors engineering,
• Universal design
• Making workplaces work for people with all ranges
  of ability and characteristics

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Service Delivery Systems

• Rehabilitation Counselor Provided
• Specialized Professional
• Contracted with CRP
• Projects with Industries
• Supported Employment
• Customized Employment Options

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Job Seeking Skills Training

• Resume
• Cover Letters
• Job Search
• Interviewing
• Accommodations
• Using the Internet

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Job Search Strategies

• Treat search as job
• Find Support
• Enlist contacts
• Use the Internet
• Informational Interviews
• Be Flexible and Creative
• Dont Give Up!!!!!!

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Interview Skills

• Appearance
• Attitude
• Behavior
• Follow-up

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Disability Management

• A workplace prevention and remediation strategy
  that seeks to prevent disability from occurring,
  or lacking that, to intervene early following the
  onset of disability, using coordinated,
  cost-conscious, quality rehabilitation services
  that reflects an organizational commitment to
  continued employment of those experiencing
  functional work limitations

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Summary

• Good Placement requires both Supply Side and
  Demand-side strategies
• Good Counselors are Systems based mediators
• Horizontal Expansion of Role of Rehabilitation
  Counselor