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Guidance Glimpse: Job Placement Quality Indicators

Shown below are the job placement quality indicators as identified and listed on the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education website in the Student Services Staff Toolbox at http://okcareertech.org/guidance/SSS_toolbox.html. These indicators are essential for each of our technology centers to be providing.

Job Placement Quality Indicators

  1. All students in accredited technology center programs receive assistance in developing employability and job search skills prior to program completion. The Technology Center provides instruction in strategies that help the student get and maintain a training-related job, including but not limited to:
    1. Resume writing
    2. Interview competence
    3. Knowledge of job application procedures
    4. Use of electronic resources for job search
    5. Self-advocacy/determination, disclosure of special needs
    6. Appropriate workplace behaviors
    7. Job retention skills
  2. The technology center informs all students about the availability of workforce development activities, including job placement services, upon enrollment.
  3. Job placement records are maintained and used to assist in planning and redesigning course offerings and technology center services.
  4. The technology center creates and maintains a list of job openings that is accessible to all technology center staff and instructors involved in student job search and referral.
  5. The technology center maintains regular contact with business and industry to develop and facilitate employment of completers.
  6. The technology center matches eligible students with employers who have identified their needs.
  7. Technology center students are informed about assistance for supporting and refining job search strategies and skills and receive such assistance for a minimum of six months following program completion.
  8. The technology center provides all students with information about employment laws that protect them from discrimination based on race, religion, color, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, or disability.
  9. The technology center provides all students with information defining sexual harassment and the laws that protect them from such harassment.
  10. In accordance with Executive Order 11246 of the Federal Government, the technology center requests assurances from employers that students utilizing technology center job placement services will not be discriminated against in employment, work assignments, or promotion based on race, religion, color, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, or disability. All instructors and others engaged in job placement are made aware of these assurances.
  11. The technology center provides organized and systematic guidance and placement services for those students seeking further education and/or job placement. Reference: Standards for Accreditation of Oklahoma Schools (2002), Standard VI, 210:35-13-75
  12. The technology center establishes policies and procedures for maintaining confidentiality when responding to inquiries and requests for referrals through workforce development, job placement, and job development services.

Joelle Jolly