Unbundling Demand:
Shifting the Employment Relationship From Competitive to Customized
Using unmet needs as a strategy to engage employers
Michael Callahan
Marc Gold & Associates
September 30, 2009
Unbundling Demand
Employers have typically met needs by bundling demands into job descriptions.
Job seekers with complex lives often don’t have the “whole package” to offer. Tough economic times make it even harder to compete.
Customized Employment (CE) allows employers to “unbundle” demand and to take advantage of discrete competencies and meet unmet needs.
From the Employer’s Side
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Unmet workplace needs-
CE provides a strategy for employers to focus on the unmet needs that inevitably occur in a time of multi-tasking, high expectation demand. -
Tasks better performed by others-
CE can focus on the discrete tasks of job descriptions relating to highly skilled and credentialed positions in workplaces. -
Specific employee competencies-
CE can utilize specific job seeker competencies based on discovering their “strengths, needs and interests” and matches and negotiates with existing employer needs.
The Employment Matrix
According to US/DOL:
Customized employment means individualizing the employment relationship between employees and employers in ways that meet the needs of both.
It is based on an individualized determination of the strengths, needs, and interests of the person with a disability, and is also designed to meet the specific needs of the employer.
Customized Employment
The Customized Process
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Discovery
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Capturing discovery through profiles
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Customized employment planning
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Portfolio/visual resume development
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Job development representation
Here, CE dovetails with Supported Employment -
Workplace analysis, accommodations, job site support
Value Added to Employers:
Benefits of Customized Employment for Employers
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The discovery process reduces recruitment costs by getting to know job seeker’s “strengths, needs and interests
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The customized plan helps assure job seekers are connected with potential employers of their interest
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Employers can target specific areas of workplace need and know the tasks will get done
Features of Customized Employment
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The customized relationship is completely voluntary on the employer’s part
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Job seekers are encouraged to allow “positive disclosure” of the work impact of their complexity and challenges
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Pay can be negotiated from minimum/entry to that typically paid for similar jobs
Features of Customized Employment
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Applicable to all users of the workforce system and can be offered to an array of potential and current employees
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Includes on-going supports and other services, as needed
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Allows employers to meet goals of increasing diversity and hiring individuals with complexities in a way that benefits their business
Customized Job Development
In Customized Job Development, Job Developers gets to know one applicant at a time through discovery before meeting with potential employers in the community.
Discovery
Allows us to determine who the applicant is, their complexities as well as their potential contributions to employers.
Customized Job Development
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The Job Seeker’s Conditions, Interests and Contributions are identified through a Customized Planning Process as well as a Task List.
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The Job Developer then meets with specific employers in an effort to negotiate a customized job description.
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From a list of potential employers identified during the Customized Plan.
Customized Employment is successful when there is a negotiated fit between the applicant’s “strengths, needs and interests” and the “specific needs of an employer”.
Customized Job Development
All workplaces have unmet needs, even when fully staffed, but particularly in difficult economic times
Needs-driven Job Development
Employers can turn each unmet need into a task:
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Excess data entry
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Assisting receptionist during heavy calling
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Performing episodic duties: collating for meeting
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Augmenting low producing employees
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Relieving employees during break
Needs-driven Job Development
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Single source jobs : Job descriptions based on tasks derived from a single traditional job
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Multiple source jobs: Job descriptions based on tasks derived from a variety of jobs
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Created Jobs: Job descriptions based on heretofore unmet needs of a work setting
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Contract Jobs: Carved, negotiated or created job descriptions performed under a contract
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Micro-enterprises: Small businesses based on the unmet needs of a local market
Categories of SE Customized Employment
Single Source Job:
Tasks derived from a file clerk position to do sorting and filing
Example of Single Source, Shared Job
Maintaining customer database
Multiple Source Job in Retail Setting
Multiple Source Job:
Performing Various jobs within a music store- set-up, cleaning…
Multiple Source Job in Child Care:
Began as a single source job
We want to avoid the “Dirtiest Jobs” in the workplace as the main focus of CE
Created Job:
Providing delivery in an insurance company
Created Job:
Stopping “Slips and Falls” in a factory
Contracted Job:
Data entry in a county personnel office
Created Job:
Starting a micro-business
Micro-business & “Day Job”:
DJ in clubs on weekends and carved retail support during the day
But is Employment for Everyone?
Customized Employment Makes Employment Possible
for all people, Marci provides “specialty stapling” as a contribution
Customized Employment Makes Employment Possible
Marci provides custom shredding of confidential documents for her employer
For Additional Information:
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National Center on Workforce and Disability (One-Stops)
http://onestops.info -
United Stated Department of Labor
http://dol.gov/odep -
Marc Gold & Associates
http://marcgold.com -
Mississippi Model Youth Transition Innovation
http://myti.org
Comments & Questions
Contact Information
Michael Callahan
Marc Gold & Associates
Email: MICALLAHAN@aol.com
4101 Gautier-Vancleave Rd. Ste. 102
Gautier, MS 39553
(228) 497-6999
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Education Credits
Participants may** be eligible for CRCC and CEU credits.
CRCC Credit - (2.0)
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By Tuesday, October 6, 2009, participants must score 80% or better on a online Post Test and submit an online CRCC Request Form via the MyTACE Portal.
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CEU Credit - (.20 pending)
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Site Coordinators must distribute the CEU form to participants seeking CEU credit on the day of the webinar.
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