Employment Tracker
Before picking up the phone and cold calling potential employers, you should do this first.
What is check the employment tracker?
This area in the workplace is where employees can connect with their co-workers
What is the lunchroom/break room?
The most common interview question that asks you to describe yourself in a professional context.
What is "tell me about yourself"?
True or false: Employees with an intellectual disability are more likely to be unsafe on the job compared to their peers.
What is false?
Students may take part in this as part of their program of study as it helps build on their education and provides hands-on learning and experience.
What is a practicum and/or WIL (Work Integrated Learning)?
True or False: You should check the tracker before going to a career fair/hiring fair.
What is true?
You may do this for students starting a new job to help create natural supports in the workplace.
What is a staff address?
We may ask the employer for this prior to the student interviewing.
What are the interview questions?
D.E.A.M stands for?
What is Disability Employment Awareness Month?
YEP stands for?
What is the Youth Employment Partnership?
The Employment Tracker can be found here.
Where is: Sharepoint, Microsoft teams, Excel.
True or False: Family members should address challenges on the job directly with the employer?
What is false.
When preparing for an interview, research the company’s this to align your answers with their values.
What is the mission and/or values statement?
The "4 Fs" in employment are?
What is food, flowers, folding, and filth?
Employment is a part of this pathway that we all follow.
What is the normative pathway?
What is the "status" of a red-coloured entry in the tracker?
What is "do not contact"?
If transportation is a barrier to getting to work, a student might consider what alternative options?
What is public transit and/or carpooling?
You may support a student in this way prior to an interview.
What is interview prep?
This theory was developed by Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger in the 1980s.
What is social role valorization (SRV)?
We ask families to use this when supporting their loved one in finding employment opportunities.
What is their network?
When a job isn’t publicly posted, but you find out about it through connections, it’s called this.
What is a warm lead/family connection?
When a student is comfortable in their position, typically after onboarding we do this.
What is fade back/fade out support?
True or false: In Canada employers can ask specific details of a person's disability during the hiring process.
What is false?
This funding stream is available for adults with permanent disabilities in Alberta and is directly impacted by employment.
What is AISH?
Inclusion Alberta's mission statement.
What is "To foster family leadership and advocacy in the pursuit of fully inclusive community lives for children and adults with intellectual disabilities."