ROSCOMMON SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT SERVICE(Employability, Roscommon)

Career Development Plan

Introduction and History

• Catherine Kelleher – Employment Facilitator with Roscommon Supported Employment Service.• Varied personal career path• worked as Lifeguard and Swimming Instructor • Store Detective • Secretary• Sales Assistant• Curtain Maker.• Owner/Manager Retail Convenience Store• Special Needs Assistant • Customer Service - Debt Collection• Social Care Worker • Support worker – Autism client• Employment Facilitator

Roscommon Supported Employment Service

Our Mission Statement

“To facilitate access to mainstream employment for people with disabilities in Co. Roscommon by providing supports for career planning, job sourcing, job matching and job retention.

To support employers in Co. Roscommon to achieve best practice in employing people with disabilities”

• Began attending the Boyle Training Centre in 2009 as an Employment Facilitator.• Met with Pauline McNamee. • Worked mainly with clients who had Mental Health difficulties. • Pauline and I had a shared ethos regarding our mutual clients. • We both felt that it was necessary to ensure that all aspects of a clients development be examined to ensure

that success was possible towards attaining employment and living their life to the full. • Nearly all of our clients were presenting with low self-esteem and low self-confidence. • They were stuck within their lives and were having difficulty moving forward. • The very fact of their Mental Health difficulties created for them difficulties in social, emotional and practical

terms. • We decided that we had to do something to help our clients move forward.

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Personal Development? Understanding? Practical help? Pauline produced a programme to help our clients develop all aspects of their lives With this in mind she created the B.U. programme and also the Inspire Programme.

The participants were from the Mental Health services and from the wider community and no-one knew who was from where.

when the clients were ready I developed a module towards accessing employment –

Solutions?

Career Development Plan - Decisions

Where do I want to live and work?

What kind of job appeals to me?

What characteristics would I like my co-workers to have?

What kind of working conditions would I like?

What amount of responsibility would I like in my job?

What type of salary am I expecting?

“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted” David Bly

a. What do I like doing?b. What am I good at?

Strengths

What do you do well?What unique resources can you draw on?What do others see as your strengths?

Matching what you like doing with your strengths

Interview for Information

Computer Literate

Generate Ideas

Strategize

Motivate

Write

Multi-Task

Make Decisions

Sell

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending”.  Maria Robinson

What Next?• match suitable careers with your likes and brain storming with your group.• list matched likes and strengths to possible careers. • any perceived reasons that you cannot take up a particular career are not relevant

finding ways to achieve the career or careers you have selected is the next stage in the plan.

• if you need certain qualifications for a particular career then we will explore how you can gain those qualifications.

• create a five year plan which will be further broken down into yearly plans.• This will create a template for acquiring your chosen career.

“Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was." - Robert Louis Stevenson

5 year planWhat do I see myself doing in

1 Year

2 Years

3 Years

4 Years

5 Years

Career/job I wish to achieve

Further study requirements Applications to

be made

Work experience I can do

Steps to relocate as necessary

Networking that will help with jobs

5 year plan

Mind-mapping

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Practical Job SkillsWhile creating a career plan you may find yourself in a position where you wish to work immediately. This can be incorporated into your plan

Interview Skills facilitated with sample interview questions and scored feed- back

In SummaryYour outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely coloured by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, moulded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.Orison Swett Marden http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/o/orisonswet157891.html#XPgSsvQfGs8eeAAd.99

Thank you for listening!

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