Lesson 5 – Routes into Employment

Lesson overview

• Routes into employment
• Steppingstones
• Case study
• Portfolio career
• Grow: Goal, Reality – Options – Way forward – via Mentoring
• Plan to close skills gap, get experience, enhance skills
• Final formulation of job goal
• Your employment goal statement

In the previous lesson you considered a few options and narrowed them down to the most appealing and suitable employment options for you. Now we are going try to trace your path towards this employment position.

All experiences are steppingstones that help to walk your way up towards your desired role or career.

Please watch the case study video with Simon.

Case study – Simon

Routes into employment

We discussed various steping stones and routes towards your desired position.

Now we are going to consider the option of a portfolio career

Portfolio career.

Forum discussion

How to decide on the suitability of a portfolio career for you?

https://ndsa.uk/forum/threads/how-to-decide-whether-a-portfolio-career-is-for-you.219/

Task – define your Job Club goal

Now the time has come to chart your career stepping stones and to define your employment goal for the programme.

At beginning of the programme you participated in the webinar with Marianna Forro about setting your goals. Although it is not specifically adapted to autistic people, it contains a useful framework to consider your goals.

You can review her presentation again

Please capture your Tool Up career goal in the goal statement

The attached document may be of help. It is a GROW matrix,

GROW stands for Goal, Reality , Options , Way forward. Try to fill it in

Exploring Options Further:

Links to Access to work:

https://www.gov.uk/access-to-work

https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Faccess-to-work&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFn3DKX_MNcz2YZ6_hmCB9Dto86-A

Covid related government intiatives:

• “Kickstart scheme”: £2bn fund to pay for six-month work placements for 16 to 24-year-olds on universal credit 
• £1,000 grant per trainee for employers who take on new trainees aged 16-24 in England, aiming to triple trainee numbers
• New apprenticeships  – incentive for employer to hire •Doubling the number of work coaches at Jobcentre Plus across Great Britain
• £150m extra for the Flexible Support Fund, which provides help for jobseekers (in Great Britain) •£95m to expand the Work and Health Programme to provide additional support for unemployed people on benefits for more than three months
• A job-finding support service for those out of work for less than three months, costing £40m
• £32m over two years for a National Careers Service to provide advice on work and training (in England)