For Individuals

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We’re excited to go on your employment journey with you!

Great Work offers employment exploration, development, and on-the-job support to ensure the success of our clients. 

Are you or someone in your family ready for a fresh start? Let’s figure it out together!

Our services are free! Ask your case manager to get you enrolled.

Check out our Employment Resources section for some great tips and resources to help you on your employment journey!

https://www.greatworkmn.com/employment-resources

The E1MN Framework

The Employment First Minnesota Framework (E1MN) is designed to help make sure that we help you find a job and keep a job that is a perfect fit for you! Click below to learn more about each phase:

Other Great Work Services

Great Work provides these services in partnership with Vocational Rehabilitation Services.

  • We help you find a great job in the community that is a perfect fit for your strengths!

    • Referred individuals must be looking for a long-term, permanent job.

    • Referred individuals must be looking for a permanent and long-term job.

    • Referred individuals should have a resume, template cover letter, complete sample application with established references, and no need for interview practice.

  • Great Work offers job coaching services. There may not be a staff member available to take on the case, but feel free to reach out!

    Initial Support: Great Work will provide 1-1 constant on-the-job support for the first 30 days.

    Fading Support: At 30 days, we’ll assess the need for continued support and will fade back if appropriate.

    Transportation: Great Work cannot provide transportation to/from the job. Great Work can wait for someone’s ride with them if approved by VR in advance.

    Great Work absences: There may be times when our job coach is out due illness, emergency, paid-time-off or Great Work’s holiday schedule conflicting with that of the employer. We will alert the participant, employer, VR counselor, and family asap when our job coach will be out. We will attempt to find coverage internally within our team but if we cannot, we will explore a natural support from family, friends of other providers or a natural support from the provider.

    Participant absences: Please alert your job coach ASAP if you will be absent from work for either a planned day off or unexpectedly. Our job coaches rely on their income from this job and if you can’t work, they usually can’t work either.

    Schedule changes: We cannot guarantee that we will be able to accommodate work schedule changes. We will try our best to accommodate schedule changes when we can, but our job coach may not be available during the new schedule. If a participant’s hours are cut at work, Great Work will often fill the lost hours for our job coach with other responsibilities or support for other participants. If hours are added back to the participant’s schedule. We cannot guarantee that our job coach will still be available to provide support during those times.

    Job coach departure: In rare situations, our job coach may decide to leave Great Work. When they do we will try our best to find coverage internally within our team and find a replacement job coach. However, this is not always immediately possible and can cause a gap in coverage. In these situations, we will explore the possibility of utilizing natural supports while we work on finding coverage.

  • We help you collect experience on a sample application, assist with resumes and cover letters, and practice interviewing!

  • We help you explore employment through a great stepping stone job and will help build your employment experience.

    Through Work Experience Services we can help you search for a job through posted job openings in your community, or we can arrange an individual, time-limited job to help you determine your interest in a particular kind of work. Occasionally these short-term customized experiences lead to permanent job offers!

    Student Services (Pre-ETS):
    This is a short term (usually around 120 hours) experience used to gie you a risk free way to try out a job and learn new skills!

    Great Work pays your wages, so you need an onboarding meeting with HR before your first day.

Get connected with some great resources to help you along your employment journey!

Some highlighted free items are a “First Month at a Job Guide,” “Career Exploration Guide,” “Personal Care Checklist.”

Explore some GREAT resources below!

Career Exploration Resources

Looking for ways to explore employment? Look no further!

First Month at a Job Guide

Want an awesome guide for your first month of employment? Click to learn more and download.

Hygiene Resources

Is hygiene a barrier? Here are some resources to help, including a personal care checklist.

Interviewing Resources

Want to brush up on interviewing with our mock question template or are you just looking for general advice? We have you covered.

Job Hunting Resources

Running out of places to look for jobs? We have a couple of suggestions for you.

Resume and Cover Letter Tips

We have a cover letter and resume template for you! We also have some activities as well as additional resources to make your unique skills and abilities stand out!

Social Skill Tips

We have a some workplace social skill tips as well as an activity on learning names!

Transportation Ideas

Want to work, but don’t know how to get there? We have a couple of transportation ideas for you, as well as some resources!

Workplace Accommodation Resources

Need a workplace accommodation, but don’t know where to start? We have some great resources, including a template of what to send your boss when requesting one!

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