Employability Skills
This program
focuses on skills we all learn and pick up through our
life experiences and via osmosis. Because Deaf consumers have
different life experiences and learn differently than we do, these
skills are often not communicated or learned in their language or
culture.
Job Club
This
portion of the program focuses on how to approach and contact employers
independently with a hands-on approach. Different from
mainstreamed program, this club meets the specific needs of Deaf, late
deafened and the Hard of Hearing consumers who are job ready and wish
to participate in the labour force.
Academic Skills
- Communication Skills
- Thinking Skills
- Learning Skills
Personal Management Skills
- Positive Attitudes and Behaviours
- Responsibility
- Self-esteem and Self-confidence
- Decision Making Skills
- Problem Solving Skills
- Flexibility
Employment Counseling Includes
- Employers Expectations
- Hearing Culture and Norms
- Deaf Culture and Norms and how they fit in
the hearing world
- Real World (Reality Therapy)
- Problem Solving Skills
- Interpersonal Skills
- Interviewing Skills and Techniques
- Job Application Forms Training Program
- Career Decision Making
- Resume Preparation
- Job Search Coaching
Agency Activities
- Job Development within the community
- Accessibility Consultation and Advocacy
- Employer/Public Awareness - Sensitivity
Educational Presentations
- Access to funding through Government agencies
for education/employment
- Accommodations
Fine-Tuning Skills
- Discovering your interests and skills
- How to contact an employer
- How to use the relay services for employer
contacts and follow-ups
- The importance of employer follow-ups
- How to properly use an Interpreter in a job
interview situation
- Vocabulary used by employers and what to
expect an how to answer
- How to best oneself during an interview
situation
