Job Coach

Job Coach

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The Church’s provident living web-site provides information on job coaches and what they can do to help the job seeker. Go to www.providentliving.org to learn more.

Who can be a job coach?

What does a job coach do?

Job coaches are usually assigned by the quorum or Relief Society leader. They can be the job seeker’s ministering leaders, quorum or relief society leaders, or, any helpful ward member.

Job Coaches are meant to motivate and call for results and accountability. D ouble teaming may be needed to give additional attention to an individual in distress.

While the job seeker may wish to select a job coach from among his or her friends or relatives, family members may prove less effective if they are too close to the situation.

Guidelines for Job Coaches

· Job coaches should be employed and self-reliant. They should be people who understand what it takes to be successful.

· Job coaches should preferably be the same gender as the job seeker. This is especially true if the job seeker is married.

· A job coach should be someone that the job seeker can have confidence, respect and trust in.

· A job coach should be someone who is willing to meet with the job seeker on a regular basis, preferably once a week (perhaps on Sunday) or more often as necessary.

· A job coach should be someone who is willing to listen to the job seekers weekly plan and objectives and provide sound feedback and encouragement.

· A job coach should be willing to review weekly accomplishments against previously set goals and objectives.

· Job coaches who are immediate family members are usually too close to the situation and too emotionally involved to be effective.

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Coaching Work Sheet

The following questions are intended to serve as a general guide for job seekers / job coaches as they work with the individual to whom they have been assigned. Each question may lead to a series of follow up questions depending upon the answer given. These questions are designed to help the job seeker self-evaluate his or her progress and to modify behavior as needed to achieve success.

Meet with the job seeker weekly and call as often as needed to provide support and follow-up.

Job Search:

1. What are your goals for this week?

a. Networking contacts

i. Re-contacts

ii. New Contacts

b. Cold Calls

c. Approaching companies directly

d. Work schedule for job searching

(should be 40 hours a week with no more than 15 on the internet).

2. How many resumes do you plan on sending out?

3. Are you getting responses to your resumes?

4. Are you maintaining a contact log?

5. Who do you need to follow up with this week?

a. Companies

b. Individuals

c. Employment Center

d. Staffing Agencies

Interviews:

1. How do you think you did?

2. Did you research the company before the interview?

3. How did you dress for the interview?

4. Did you feel well prepared?

5. Were you asked any hard questions?

6. Did you say anything that you wish you had not?

7. If so do we need to address it in the follow-up phone call or e-mail?

8. What do you think the company is looking for in the perfect candidate?

9. Did you fill out a post interview form,

listing what went well and what did not?

10. Did you send a "thank you" note

11. Did you send a follow-up letter?

12. Would you like to practice interviewing?

Well Being:

1. What are you doing to relieve stress?

2. Are there any temporal concerns that you would like me to share

With priesthood leaders?

3. What can I do to help you this week?

Encouragement:

1. Reinforce and praise individual efforts and good strategies

2. Congratulate on achieving goals

3. Share a spiritual thought or scripture