Fredericton Works

Outreach Employment Services

For Deaf and Hard Of Hearing

Persons

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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 and how to answer

· How to best market oneself during an interview situation

Services/Programs

Providing you with the tools you need to build your future