This technical report describes various approaches to job development. The report (a) describes the results of a study on job development/placement professionals' strategies in the employment process; (b) compares the results to employer perceptions of the employment process from the recent literature and (c) identifies implications for job development/placement practice based on this comparison.
Job Development
Think College Insight Brief #18 describes a project that sought to find effective and low-cost ways to improve secondary and postsecondary professionals’ job development skills.
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National Coordinating Center
This flow chart illustrates the process of job development based on the philosophy that there is a job for anyone who wants one.
This 40 page booklet is a collection of writings from the perspectives of employers who describe how they became involved in providing work experiences for youth with disabilities, what made it work, and what they recommend to individuals and organizations representing youth who are job searching. Some of the businesses represented include the Kennedy Space Center, Port Discovery Children's Museum, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Microsoft, the American Institute on Cancer Research, and more.
This article discusses how agencies representing jobseekers with disabilities should approach businesses and market their clients by using a strengths based approach rather than focusing on deficits and disability.