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Job Title: Employment Services Specialist
Duration: 1 year
Job Descriptions:
Summary
The Employment Services Specialist provides employment and career services to job seekers with barriers to employment, such as those with criminal charges in their background or unhoused individuals. The Employment Services Specialist assesses job seeker skills and suitability for training, provides placement assistance and career counseling, and determines eligibility for intensive services or referrals to community-based organizations.
Essential Functions
- Conducts individual and group intake sessions to orient job seekers and employers to the services available and instructs and coaches job seekers/employers on using resources/equipment available.
- Conducts individual or group assessments to determine level of service needs.
- Identifies job seeker's employment potential using assessment tools and labor market information.
- Assists job seekers to develop realistic and achievable employment goals; identifies obstacles/barriers to employment; jointly formulate employability development plans directed at employment outcomes.
- Refers clients to employers for possible job placement based upon comparison of applicant qualifications to employer job requirements.
- Refers clients to educational and other support service agencies to resolve obstacles to employment.
- Develops job placement opportunities.
- Works with eligible job seekers to obtain training from state approved training institutions or explores other avenues for pursuing training and employment goals.
- Monitors job seeker's progress towards completion of employability development plan and modifies as necessary.
Shift Timings
8:00 am- 4:30 pm.