SERVICES WE PROVIDE

All of our services cater to the strengths, capabilities, needs, and preferences of our customers. Each service is tailored by our Employment Specialists to help our clients to integrate into their job.

Job Coaching

  • One-on-One Job Coaching

  • We work with our customers, their supervisors, and any other supports they have to achieve a satisfying work environment

  • We help our customers find tools to overcome barriers. This could be an assistive technology, like a smart watch, or a note card in your front pocket.

Job Development

This is the most challenging part for most job applicants. What do you want to do? Where can you work? How many hours? We work directly with you to get the right fit.

  • We collect required government documents, like a social security card, so they’re ready when your employer needs them

  • Review and edit your work resume

  • Interview Preparation

  • Establish a baseline for your job search to fine tune what roles you want and don’t want

Work Assessments

Assessments are a tool we use to measure a job seekers ability to perform basic job functions. This is a judgement free

  • Stocking, Cleaning, Organizing

  • Customer Service

  • Productivity Measurements

  • Evaluate Customer’s Accommodation Requirements

Job Preparation

We help our clients organize their personal information and their story. We coach you through what is needed and how to communicate before you submit your application.

  • Organize Personal Documents

  • Mock Interviews

  • Resume Building

  • Developing your story

Career Exploration

Many of our clients come to us without a clear picture of what they are interested in. In many cases, our clients have never had a steady paycheck. This path helps our clients explore a new career field.

  • Work with a coach to identify a career path goal

  • Learn about what those career paths do and how to get started

  • Make a plan to prepare yourself to work in that field

Targeted Vocational Assessment

Perhaps you know what you want to do. You' have a career field in mind and maybe even some experience in that field. With a targeted assessment, you’ll work with our staff to assess your ability to succeed in a specific field. Options for these opportunities are less common and require the VRC and each client to clearly identify specific attributes that you’re looking for. We work towards assessing your barriers and then help you advocate for yourself to get hired. We remove the barriers together.

Community Based Work Assessment

This is typically a starting point for our clients. Those who enter the Vocational Rehabilitation System with limited working experience, or those who have a long-time gap in employment, are recommend to start here. We use the Community Based Work Assessment (CBWA) as a baseline tool to sculpt a realistic plan that will help our client succeed finding and maintaining a job.

  • Starting point for many of our clients

  • Assesses our client’s abilities, barriers, and work style

Discovery

Discovery is the starting line for clients with significant barriers and will need help with a customized employment plan. Clients who pursue this path are referred to Pacific Opportunities through a Service Coordinator or Personal Agent. This path is comprised of four phases:

Phase 1: We get to know our client

  • Our coach visits our clients home

  • Our coach interviews the people that support our client

  • We learn what drives our client forward

Phase 2: Employment Centered Planning

  • Our coach reviews all relevant work history such as community programs or volunteer work

Phase 3: Employment Experiences

  • Hands on experiences that cater to each clients interests, capabilities, and goals

  • One-on-One Coaching

  • Focused on developing the baseline from which a customized employment plan can be pursed as our clients progress thorough the VR path to long-term employment

Phase 4: Career themes, task and prospecting lists

  • After our clients have completed their experiences, we develop career themes that will be tailored around the client’s strengths, desires, and abilities. We provide a comprehensive report that attempts to provide a customized path to employment in the community

Discovery helps people find out what they shine at. We’re excited to be a part of that journey!