How to become a Disability Job Coach

Are you looking for a rewarding career.

A Disability Job Coach is similar to that of a Sports Coach, except that a Job Coach works with individuals with challenges and disabilities that hinder employment to develop their working skills to become successful in competitive employment. Working as a Job Coach can be very challenging and rewarding form of employment. As a Job Coach you may enjoy a flexible schedule because your hours and location in where you report changes frequently. One week you may be Coaching a Cashier and the next week you may be coaching a Janitor or a Teacher's Assistant. Your job as a coach would not be to do their job but to assist them in learning there job or accommodating their job to their needs. Learn how to become a job coach.

Difficulty:

Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• A GED or High School Diploma.
• Clean criminal background.
• Resume.
• Phone.

1. Get your resume ready. A major duty of a Job Coach is to teach individuals with challenges in employment to seek, find, and keep employment, so any laziness in these areas will greatly effect your chances of getting employed. On your resume make sure to highlight your experiences (non-paid and paid)with people with with challenges in employment. Remember not everyone that you work with will be consider legally disabled.

2. Brush up on your vocabulary on descriptive words for the business. For instance is it correct to say disabled, handicapped, or challenged. Neither way is really wrong, but preference may differ from area. In addition to this, the research will help you feel more comfortable in interview. I have seen many people in this field give a terrible interview because they felt uneasy. Many people will pause or appoligize because they all of a sudden feel they said something wrong. If you do the research and know the basics do not worry to much about this during the interview, most people in the industry does not get easily offended. If they tell you that you said something wrong you can then apologizes and move on. Do not over think your answers.

3. Find openings in your living area by contacting area staffing agencies and the local Vocational Rehabilitation Center. More than likely these places do not have the opening themselves but they do business with the company's that do and they will know which company's are the best. If you have a Career Center in your area, they may also be able to point you to what company's are hiring. It is important to go through a company such as this to get the heads up of which company is the best to work for. A Job Coach is usually last to get the hours, so you want to work for a company that will be busy.

Tips & Warnings

• Even though you will go to work with the individual, make sure you do not do the job for them or you will not have the job for long.

• Your paper work is essential in this field, so it may be of benefit to include any abilities you have of being organized and paying attention to detail.

• You must have a personal phone for the company to be able to call you.