1. ROSCOMMON SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT SERVICE (Employability, Roscommon) Career Development Plan

2. 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

3. 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”

4. 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.

5. 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 –

8. 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?

9. “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?

10. Strength s What do you do well? What unique resources can you draw on? What do others see as your strengths?

11. Matching what you like doing with your strengths Interview for Information Computer Literate Generate Ideas Strategize Motivate Write Multi-Task Make Decisions Sell

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

13. 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.

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

15. 5 year plan What do I see myself doing in 1 Year 2 Years 3 Years 4 Years 5 Years

16. Mind-mapping

17. Some Job-Hunting Tips In the module the final step the remaining sections are given over to helping the client by presenting a step by step job seeking guide with all relevant information available for them to follow. As their Employment Facilitator I would mentor and guide them through.

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

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

20. In Summary Your 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#XPgSsvQfGs8 eeAAd.99

21. Thank you for listening! If you wish to contact me directly about any of the content of this presentation or if you have any questions about The Final Step I would be happy to respond via email at ck@rosemp.ie