Job Coaching
The focus of vocational skills/job coaching is on teaching several skills that foster independence at the workplace.
Vocational/job coaching programming focuses on:
- Searching for jobs
- Choosing a career that aligns to strengths and interests
- Filling out job applications
- Interview skills
- Resume building
- Writing cover letters
- Updating LinkedIn
- Applying social skills in the workplace
- Filling out attendance and timesheet forms
- Using checklists to complete complex tasks
- Organizing a workspace
- Following work routines
- Self-advocacy in the workplace
- Adhering to timelines and due dates
We also assist employers with creating a safe working environment, orienting and training newly hired individuals, monitoring and documenting progress, ensuring our learners are provided with appropriate accommodations (e.g., flexible work hours, sending information in writing, building trust, allowing processing time, or providing advance notice when there is a change in deadline) providing direction and role modeling positive work behaviors. Through our job coaching, we promote inclusion at the workplace which is an integral to making sure our learners feel supported at their jobsites. accommodations that someone on the spectrum may need can be helpful for everyone. We recommend weekly or bi-weekly check-ins with the job coach and supervisor at the workplace to ensure needs and accommodations are being met.