The document provides guidance on setting up effective career resource centers. It recommends engaging volunteers and inmate career clerks to help run the center. The purpose is to help those with criminal convictions prepare for employment through a planned career development process. A full-service center should provide self-assessment, career information, help with documents, resumes, applications, and workshops to improve employment outcomes. Assessment tools can help individuals learn their interests and barriers. Career briefs and labor market information are also valuable resources.
2. Objectives
• Learn how to set up a career resource
center in a correctional, facility, probation
or parole office, or community-based
organization
• Learn how to enhance an existing career
resource center using the no-cost
resources available from the National
Institute of Corrections
3. Can’t do it by Yourself!
• Engage Volunteers -
VolunteerMatch.Org
• Inmate Career Clerks
4. Why?
• Most persons with criminal convictions
are ill-prepared to enter the world of
work
• One-stop career centers can’t do
everything
• Need to send a consistent message
throughout the criminal justice
process
5. Why?
• Many people are waiting idly in
probation and parole offices right
now
• The same is true in prisons
• Wherever they are set up, career
resource centers are in high demand
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8. Career Definition
• The pattern of activities and
experiences that make up a
lifetime of work, learning, and
leisure
9. The Purpose
• Career development should not be
the accumulation of haphazard
occurrences
• Career resource centers should
promote a planned process that
leads to satisfying work and life
experiences
10. A Full Service Career
Resource Center
• Self-assessment materials
• Career briefs on occupations,
including demand, salaries,
training, etc.
11. A Full Service Career
Resource Center
• Information needed to secure
identity documents required for
employment
• Assistance with resumes and cover
letters and guidance on how to
search for employment
opportunities
• Assistance with the job application
process
12. A Full Service Career
Resource Center
• Labor market information and local
job requirements
• Information about community-
based Career One-Stops
• Preparation for prison and jail-
based career fairs
13. A Full Service Career
Resource Center
• Multimedia materials, including
videos about careers and the job
search process
• Workshops intended to improve
employment outcomes
14. Assessment
• Process of learning about oneself
and determining which
occupations are the best fit
• May include interest inventories,
skills surveys and value inventories
• Barriers Assessment
15. O*NET Computerized Interest
Profiler
• provides valuable self-knowledge
about their vocational interests
• fosters career awareness
• provides a window to the entire
world of work
16. O*NET Computerized Interest
Profiler
• The instrument is composed of 180
items describing work activities that
represent a wide variety of
occupations as well as a broad
range of training levels
17. O*NET Computerized Interest
Profiler
• Computer administration via single
computer or computer network
• Simple and easy to follow
instructions
• Screens motivate user completion
of the instrument
• Approximately 30 minute
completion time
66. Pre-employment assistance
•Assistance with resumes and
cover letters and guidance
on how to search for
employment opportunities
•Assistance with the job
application process
