1. Job Placement Partners: A Collaborative Effort - Delaware County Intermediate Unit # 25 Patricia Frederick Barbara Lefferts

2. Job Placement Partners Job Placement Partners History –Since 1992 –Delaware County Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR) Who –20-25 Providers in Delaware County Area

3. What Goes On??? Sharing resources –Job leads –Profiles of potential employees –Job fairs –New companies/businesses moving into area Encouragement –Job developers Positive experiences/frustrations

4. Something Old Since 2000 - DCIU OPTIONS Program –Kept original format –Informal meetings –Open invitation –1 to 1.5 hours

5. Something New –Included outside speakers –State Civil Service A.D.A. –PA Protection and Advocacy Rep –PA Career Link –Employers –Medical/Educational Professionals –Inspirational

6. Helpful Speakers Who would you want to hear from? How could they help you as you look for jobs? How could they help you personally as you work with students to find jobs?

7. Perky with long red braid

8. A Reality Job Developers, many of whom never intended to enter the profession, like what they do.

9. “If you were a member of Jesse James band and people asked you what you were, you wouldn’t say, ‘Well, I’m a desperado.’ You would say, ‘I work in banks’ or ‘I’ve done some railroad work.’” Roy Blount, Jr., American Author

10. Receptionist: “What may I ask is this regarding?” Creative Job Developer: “Well, it’s a surprise?” Bissonnette, Denise (1994), Beyond Traditional Job Devleopment, A.Milt Wright & Assoc., Inc., USA

11. The Surprise

12. Sharing Types of Approaches Phone call, follow up letters, phone call Family connections Cold calls Newspaper ads Billboards Job fairs Familiar employers Chamber of Commerce Internet Career Link

13. Introducing Your Services to Employers on the Phone Be brief, be brilliant and be done Expect success before you make the call Use assertive language Be prepared with a list of options Know when to persist and when to quit

14. “ If a man is called to be a street sweeper, (or job developer) he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a street sweeper (or job developer) who did his job well’.” Rev. Martin Luther King Civil Rights Leader