Montana's Employment Opportunities provides employment assistance to people with different abilities!! Montana's Employment Opportunities typically has over 40 people looking for part-time and full-time work in many fields including:
Secretarial/Clerical/Receptionist/Data Entry
Administrative
Cashier
Food Service/Food Prep
Janitorial/Custodial/Housekeeping
The Employment Services Department currently employs 3 staff including an Job Developers, Job Coaches and a Transcriptionist.
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Did you know:
Disability Awareness
DePaul University researchers, in conjunction with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, compared work-related variables of 314 participating employees with and without disabilities and found:
Workers with disabilities had nearly identical job performance ratings as people without disabilities
The amount of supervision required was similar for both groups
Participants with disabilities from the retail and hospitality sectors stayed on the job longer than their counterparts
Across all sectors, participants with disabilities had fewer scheduled absences than those without disabilities
Disability employment agencies and disability advocates were critical for recruiting and hiring workers with disabilities
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Training Assistance-“Job Coaching”
Many individuals with disabilities have been able to maintain employment by using the services of a Job Coach. A Job Coach is often referred to by several different professional titles such as Job Trainer, Job Specialist, or Employer Consultant. Job Coaches come from a wide variety of backgrounds such as rehabilitation, teaching, or business and are responsible for assisting an individual with a disability to maintain employment by offering on-site and/or off-site support. A Job Coach performs a variety of duties in the course of assisting an individual with a disability to maintain employment. Many times the Job Coach will spend time at the individual’s workplace to learn the job duties of the individual in order to help him or her to build proficiency over time. He or she may also help identify possible accommodations or model expected behaviors and provide actual “hands on” job training. The role of a Job Coach is not only to support and to advocate for an individual with a disability, but also to support the employer and to answer any questions he or she may have. The services provided by the Job Coach are provided at no cost to the employer. Liability insurance coverage for the Job Coach is supplied by Montana's Employment Opportunities. Although a Job Coach does not act as supervisor for the employee, a Job Coach is a valuable resource to the employer for initial training and can be considered a reasonable accommodation according to the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Job Assessments/Tryouts
What is an assessment? An assessment could also be called a Job Try-Out. It is an opportunity for a future job seeker to experience a job in a specific career field. The individual performs the duties of the job while a Montana's Employment Opportunities staff member observes and assists if necessary. The assessment is paid and the individual is covered by Workers Compensation however is not taking the place of any of the employees at the assessment site. Are there liability issues? All liability is covered by State of Montana Vocational Rehabilitation for the individual. There is no risk or obligation to the employer/assessment site. What are the benefits? As an employer, you are giving an opportunity to an individual to see and to experience a job in a real-life setting. The individual benefits by gaining a better understanding of the skills necessary to perform that specific job. The business benefits by gaining an extra pair of hands for a few hours. And
By agreeing to be an assessment site, you are partnering with an agency that has been serving Flathead, Lake, Mineral, Sanders and Lincoln Counties for the past 7 years, with the highest number of placements. You will be assisting individuals with disabilities to explore their vocational interest area. This is all done with no cost or liability to your company. You are not obligated to hire an individual who participates in an assessment. Montana's Employment Opportunities staff is on site with the individual, so there will be minimal to no interruption of your normal working routine.
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Work Opportunity Tax Credit
DID YOU KNOW? Tax Credits are available for hiring persons with disabilities – up to:
$2400 for each new adult hire
$4800 for each new disabled veteran hire
$9000 for each new long-term family assistance recipient hired over a two-year period
All new adult employees must work a minimum of 120 or 400 hours. The credit is 25% of qualified first-year wages for those employed at least 120 hours but fewer than 400 hours and is 40% for those employed 400 hours or more. Please call us with your questions. 406-253-4133
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