CDO Workforce coordinates and focuses employment, training and education development resources across three counties, providing service to employed people, unemployed people and employers alike. Our goal is to improve the long-term growth and development of the work force.
We can assist you with writing and enhancing a resume, job search and strategies, interview preparation and practice, and more.
CDO Workforce Career System helps you through the process, from the first assessment, to resume-building, job search and career management. We know which employers are hiring, and what they’re looking for.
Career competency maps are visual illustrations of the steps that may be required to get to a chosen job or career cluster. Career competency maps show the occupational steps related with making career decisions and advancements including skills, certifications, degrees or subsequent occupations. The CDO Workforce’s Disability Employment Initiative program has developed two career competency maps, one for manufacturing and another for healthcare occupations for job seeker’s review and consideration. Also, a Career Pathways Worksheet is available for job seekers, especially youth with disabilities, to use as a starting point for meeting with a Career Counselor and creating their career pathway.
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You can also visit the NYS Dept of Labor website for additional Workshop information.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Program. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.
Our goal is to help job seekers not just find a job, but develop and manage a career. That means helping them when they have a job and when they are looking. We also strive to help employers find the workers they need quickly and the resources to improve training, workforce retention and workforce restructuring.
A DRC is a Disability Resource Coordinator, someone who helps individuals with disabilities find employment.
High School Equivalency (HSE/GED) A high school equivalency or GED/HSE is a recognized alternative to a high school diploma.
Work-Based Learning (WBL) provides students and job seekers with real-life work experience that compliments their academic studies. Typically they include job shadowing, mentoring, internships, and apprenticeships.
A Team Helper is anyone who is the lead support person to the job seeker with disabilities along their career journey. It can be a family member, friend, employment counselor, Disability Resource Coordinator (DRC), or case manager.
A stop-gap job is temporary employment until something better or more permanent can be obtained.
Basic needs refers to the goods and services necessary for a minimum standard of living. This includes access to food, safe shelter, clothing, and sanitation. Reliable transportation and education can also be considered a basic need.
A safe space is intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations.
Competitive integrated employment (CIE) is work performed by a person with an impairment or health-related disability (health impairment) within an integrated setting. Wages are at least minimum wage or higher and at a rate comparable to non-disabled workers performing the same tasks.
For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education.