Competitive Integrated Employment Services
CRC Vocational Services, LLC offers a myriad of services to assist job seekers in developing appropriate and realistic vocational goals leading to maintaining meaningful employment.
CRC Vocational Services, LLC provides individualized support and assistance in all aspects of the job search and placement process, from identifying potential job leads, to providing support once the job is obtained. CRC-V staff can assist when a need is identified and an individual will benefit from receiving specific skill development training that is directly related to their job goal and/or required to obtain or maintain employment.
Job seekers can learn about their interests, abilities, aptitudes, and work preferences by performing career assessments. Services are used for a multitude of purposes, including career exploration through discovery and exposure, while we assess work habits, work tolerance, interpersonal skills and work behaviors to develop realistic vocational goals.
Our experienced staff is accustomed to working with diverse individuals with varied educational and vocational backgrounds. Our employment specialists meet directly with job seekers to conduct intake interviews, administer suitable vocational assessments, provide career exploration and exposure opportunities and offer vocational guidance and counseling leading to defining appropriate vocational goals. We also provide assistance with resume writing, interview preparation, identification of networking opportunities, establishing social media profiles and developing a winning job search campaign.
Our team partners with employers to identify job opportunities for our work ready participants. We address employer needs while focusing on win/win opportunities in placing our pre-screened, motivated job seekers in the workforce. Our commitment is to cultivate long-term relationships with employers while finding meaningful employment opportunities for our job seekers. We work in conjunction with employers to ensure awareness of current labor market trends and to provide potential employees with knowledge of employer expectations, employment soft skills, and sharpen work readiness skills to prepare them for the world of work.
Career Exploration and Engagement
Career Exploration and engagement is a comprehensive combination of interest and aptitude testing along with vocational goal planning. Individuals may participate in career development virtual platforms, job shadowing, trial work experiences, along with informational interviews with employers and/or training programs. This assessment includes vocational guidance and counseling designed to assist individuals in identifying and learning about job opportunities in particular careers and areas of interest in industry sectors. Our goal is to assist individuals in developing realistic and meaningful employment goals based on interest preferences, labor market analysis, and information gained during the assessment process. Review of findings and recommendations will generate reports to assist in future vocational planning.
Job Development and Placement Services are offered to provide timely assistance to individuals to locate, obtain, and maintain competitive integrated employment. The service consists of job development, job placement, and job seeker support services in response to individual job seekers’ needs, focusing on a specific employment goal. Job development is directly related to assisting the individual who has a specific job goal, which is in alignment with the individual’s strengths, abilities, and preferences, while taking into consideration all the individual’s functional capacities and needs.
Job Development and Placement Services
Initial Employment Supports
Initial Employment Supports is a service that compliments job seekers once they have been placed in a job. The purpose of this service is to provide employment supports that may occur on or off the job site to maintain and stabilize competitive employment. We provide a variety of supports based on the job seeker’s needs, which may include time spent in direct job seeker employment support activities, which may occur on or off the job site, and employment management which may include time engaged with employers to support the job seeker and employer. These supports are used to ensure the job seeker makes progress toward stability and confidence in job duties and workplace relationships and has retained employment for a minimum of 90 days as well as maintaining stable employment from day 91 and beyond.