The Job Fit program helps adults and/or youth with LD’s and/or ADHD explore interests, strengths, and areas of need in order to pursue employment and how to ask for accommodations in the workplace. It ensures clients have a full understanding of their LD’s and develops client’s confidence to join the workforce. This program also explores post secondary options/requirements for entering the workforce.

Job-fit can be the bridge to help you close the gap between where you are today and where you want to be.

How one-to-one sessions in office works:

• Program is 6 weeks in length.
• Each session is 60 min long
• Sessions are booked on an individual basis according to your schedule Monday to Friday

Learning Objectives:

• Learn to focus on your strengths, rather than dwell on your difficulties
• Understand your learning disabilities and explain them to others
• Understand how learning disabilities affect your ability to work
• Identify what might be a really good job for you, given your strengths and difficulties
• Discuss accommodations you might need to be successful in a job.                    

If you answer “yes” to any of the following questions, then Job-Fit can be a fit for you:

1. 1. Have you been formally identified as having learning disabilities, and are you having employment problems, such as getting and keeping a job that you want and for which you seem to be qualified?
   2. Do you think that you may have learning disabilities, but have not had an assessment? You may decide to have an assessment done later to be sure or you may decide to simply continue assuming that you probably do have some learning disabilities.

Did you often have problems with schoolwork or receive special education support while you were in school, and are you now having difficulties with employment?

 

Job-Fit is made up of the following five modules:     

2. Module 1: Job-Fit: The Essentials

This module introduces you to Job-Fit and provides some information about learning disabilities, such as their signs, symptoms, and impact.   This module also discusses disclosure issues, including the advantages and disadvantages of disclosure in the workplace.

1. Module 2: Assessing Learning Styles, Strengths, and Strategies.

In this module, you look at your learning styles and some coping strategies. It is important for you to recognize that everyone has learning strengths and difficulties and that all individuals, not just those who have learning disabilities, have preferred learning styles. The key is self-awareness and the ability to apply suitable strategies.

        Module 3: Discovering Your Strengths

Many people, whether they have learning disabilities or not, have difficulty seeing if their strengths and abilities match the job or career that they want. In Module 3, you will identify your unique gifts and talents. You will then learn how to match your strengths and abilities to the skills involved in the career or job that you want.

        Module 4: Developing Employment Goals

This module looks at the following:

• What are employers looking for?
• What kind of work you would like to do?
• What are your strengths?
• Do your strengths match the job that you would like to do?

         Module 5: Becoming Job Ready

This module gives you job-search tools and information on the following topics:

• • Conducting information interviews
  • Writing resumes
  • Completing application forms
  • Preparing for and having job interviews
  • Selecting references

Program fees*: $80 members $100 non-members

Subsidies available

For more Information on the program or subsidizes contact

Nina.Shwaizer@ldayr.org or (905)884-7933 x 5

 

*LDAYR will not let fees act as a barrier to anyone registering for our programs. Please contact our Program Coordinator to inquire about subsidized rates or to organize a payment plan.