Conversations About Employment

Coordinators of Community Services (CCS) play a key role in having important conversations with people and their families around employment.  The State Employment Leadership Network has created a comprehensive guide called Guidance for Conversations: Identifying and Designing Pathways Towards Rewarding Employment.

While the guide is focused on Case Managers, many of the conversation elements are useful for anyone wanting to engage in conversations about employment. This valuable guide includes downloadable resources, worksheets and person centered planning tools.  Use and share the resource with anyone that would benefit.

The guide can be found at: www.selnhub.org/guidanceforconversations

Example questions for probing questions and conversation starters

❑ Tell me about past work you have done.

❑ What’s your biggest question about work?

❑ Imagine yourself working. What would you be doing?

❑ What worries you about getting a job?

❑ What’s the best thing that can happen if you get a job?

❑ What’s the worst that can happen?

❑ How do your family and friends feel about you getting a job?

❑ How would earning more money change your everyday life?

❑ Let’s talk about people who can help you find and learn a job.