Employment Coaching

Overview

Employment coaching is an opportunity for students (or recent graduates) to develop workplace skills and explore possible careers. Through an individualized approach, students are explicitly taught about their own personal strengths, interests and abilities and how they apply to the world of work. NESCA offers coaching opportunities designed to meet students at their stage of career development and help them progress through multiple phases of career planning:

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Phases of Career Planning

  1. Career Interest & Aptitude Testing – Clients have the opportunity to learn about the world of work including how the language and expectations are different than school. They will learn about themselves and how their strengths, interests and abilities carve out a path to employment. Students will gain familiarity with skills and behaviors required for work, including social communication, as well as the range of options related to their unique interests and abilities.
  2. Potential Career Paths – Clients learn about the differences between jobs and careers. They will be able to identify short-term goals leading to future employment. They will identify careers related to their strengths and interests to research further. They may be exposed to real-world job exploration such as job shadows, informational interviews, and/or volunteer work. Students will become more familiar with their own self-determination skills, enhancing their abilities to identify strengths, aptitudes, learning styles, transferable work skills and behaviors as well as work preferences.
  3. Job Preparation – Students will create a step-by-step action plan for achieving realistic career goals. This may include educational planning for attendance at technical schools, increased job training and/or higher education. Students will be taught explicitly how to remain flexible with respect to potential career choices, develop independent coping skills and to make a well thought-through decision. Students will further reduce dependence on school support by identifying and developing personal networks. Students will learn about and follow through on job seeking tasks with supportive or competitive employment as the ultimate goal.
  4. Job Maintenance – Clients will have a job and/or internship. They will receive job site-specific coaching to maintain employment. They will improve on their communication skills as they apply to the world of work. They will learn how and with whom to problem-solve on the job. They will be able to describe to future employers what their transferable employment skills are and how they learn best on the job. Clients will increase their independent living skills and self-advocacy skills as they relate to the world of work.