Career Services

Employment Preparation and Placement Services

The Career and Training Services include career exploration, job search, social and advocacy skills, work readiness training and computer training. ABVI-Goodwill also provides placement services and supports which empower individuals who are blind or visually impaired to obtain and maintain employment in the community, as well as advance in their careers.

Contact 585-232-1111 for more information.

Job Club

Formed through a partnership between the New York State Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped (NYS CBVH) and ABVI–Goodwill, Job Club assists vocational-age individuals who are blind or visually impaired and thinking about finding a job. The program focuses on

• Resume development
• Confidence building
• Job search skills
• Advocacy
• The job market
• Peer-to-peer evaluation and assessment
• Skills needed to maintain employment

When a Job Club participant is ready to take the next step, we assist the candidate in finding a job. ABVI–Goodwill works with local employer partners, New York State agencies, and other rehabilitation programs to assist individuals in their search for gainful employment.

Contact 585-232-1111 for more information.

Career Vision

Want to learn about employment? Need a summer job?

ABVI-Goodwill’s Career Vision Program will allow you to share career-related experiences with other young adults while doing things that will help you explore career possibilities and learn the skills necessary to be successful in postsecondary education and in the workplace. You’ll learn about resume writing, how to communicate with coworkers, self-advocacy skills, and networking in the workplace. Career Vision will provide you with the opportunity to learn through a wide-range of experiences and activities that will help you successfully transition into the workplace.

During Career Vision you will:

Hear from guest speakers about the needs of community employers

• Observe and evaluate employment sites
• Use public transportation
• Explore careers in your field of interest
• Learn to complete a job application and or create a resume
• Practice interviewing skills
• Visit college campuses

Contact 585-232-1111 for more information.

Placement Services

Do you want a job, but you don’t know where to start looking? ABVI-Goodwill may have the help you need. ABVI-Goodwill’s placement staff will assist you in creating a resume, filling out applications, finding job leads, and developing interviewing skills.

Our support will extend beyond getting the job if appropriate for your needs. Career Development Specialist will provide transitional support for up to three months for direct placements with a community employer.

Placement services will help you determine which accommodations you may need in the work place and ensure the needed reasonable accommodations are put in place to allow you to complete job tasks independently.

Contact 585-232-1111 for more information

Work Experience

Not sure about the jobs you can do? Trying to figure out what you want to do? Do you need experience in your field of choice?

We can help you find an internship that will give you practical knowledge and experience that can provide you with new skills and insight about a career field, and the accommodations that you may need to be successful on the job.

Previous internship sites include:

Manor Clark House
Fingerlakes Addiction Counseling and Referral Agency
Wegmans
Americorps
ABVI-Goodwill’s Call Center
Fairport Baptist Home

Contact 585-232-1111 for more information.

Work Readiness

Do you want to find employment, but aren’t sure how? Not sure what type of employment you are looking for? Unsure about what an employer wants from its employees? Perhaps ABVI-Goodwill’s Work Readiness can help.

The Work Readiness Program offers a comprehensive approach to producing successful training, employment, and improved quality of life for its participants. The program offers an extensive career development process. The Work Readiness program provides people with disabilities and other barriers to employment the chance to expand their opportunities and occupational capabilities. ABVI-Goodwill will customize its training program to meet the needs of the participants of each class.

Learn to work well. Getting and keeping a job is not easy. Here are some of the things you might want to learn about in order to be successful on the job and in your daily lives.

• Interpersonal Skills. Learn about maintaining positive social interaction in the workplace with supervisors and colleagues, transitioning to new environments, and building successful work-based relationships.
• Behaviors Skills. We’ll help you see how others may view the things you say and do. Look at what motivates people, how to more effectively manage you time, and examine the role of ethics in our lives and in the workplace. All of which can help you gain a sense of control over you own life.
• Life Management. Address issues which may effect you like family dynamics, leisure activities, community involvement, health and daily living activities, and how these may effect your life, including work.
• Career Skills Training. Career skills training effects an individual throughout their life. Learn ways to identify your interests and abilities, conduct a job search, how to maintain productivity once you are employed, and to determine what the employer expects.