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Show Job Service Established To Aid The Handicapped By DONETA GATHERUM In keeping with the nationwide nation-wide observance of Employ the Handicapped Week Oct. 3-7, 3-7, the Davis County Job Service Ser-vice office in Clearfield has several programs planned to create public awareness of the problems the handicapped individual in-dividual faces in competing for jobs. The Job Service also is stressing during the week the advantages that come through hiring the handicapped worker. ON TUESDAY, a special job search workshop was conducted con-ducted by Clyde Chatland, a staff member at the Job Service. Ser-vice. The purpose of this session ses-sion which was attended by nearly 20 individuals is to help a person learn job-getting skills. Mr. Chatland covered important topics such as interviewing inter-viewing skills, applying for a job. finding job leads and pre paring for success on the job. This special job search workshop is an on-going program prog-ram offered by Job Serv ice on a regular basis to any individual indi-vidual who is unemploy ed or w ho w ants to change employment. employ-ment. OTHER SERVICES offered by Job Service to the handicapped hand-icapped include referring the person to a job opening and giving assistance through counseling and job development. develop-ment. Job Service workers make it a regular practice to call potential employers and inform them of handicapped people who need work and are qualified. According to Perry Jordan of the Job Service a handicapped handicap-ped person is anyone with very ing degrees of phy sicul or mental incapacity or an condition con-dition making it more difficult to obtain employment. About 3.8 percent of the people coded into the computer system at the Job Service Clearfield office are considered handicapped. hand-icapped. MR. JORDAN says there is a great number of handicapped people that have not applied for work through Job Servicc and so they are unidentified. Being handicapped is not an abnormal situation. Mr. Jordan Jor-dan states all people suffer from some handicaps that hamper their total performance perform-ance on the job. It might be a feeling of inferiority or an eye sight problem or the handicap-might handicap-might be so serious that normal skills must be performed in a different way, compensating for physical or mental disabilities. disabili-ties. HIRING THE handicapped has been proven successful. Mr. Jordan says many employers em-ployers report the handicapped handicap-ped worker often recognizes he has difficulties and works hard to prove himself. A handicapped hand-icapped worker is usually extra ex-tra reliable, dependable and loyal to the company. They tend to appreciate the job more than the average worker. A handicapped person has had to learn to perform skills using unusual methods and so often they are more versitile in their skills. Handicapped individuals qualify for many different jobs ranging from professional and higly skilled to unskilled, trainable train-able positions. IN CERTAIN cases, an employer em-ployer might qualify for tax incentive in-centive credits when a handicapped hand-icapped person is hired. Job placement for the handicapped hand-icapped is not something that is mentioned once a year at the Job Service and then forgotten. forgot-ten. The trained Job Service staff worker constantly to give handicapped people every possible opportunity for employment. em-ployment. THERE IS a higher percentage percen-tage of handicapped people referred re-ferred to possible jobs than are referred from the general pool of applicants. Four times as many handicapped people going by percentages as regular regu-lar applicants arc given job development de-velopment contacts and training train-ing possibilities. Twice as many handicapped applicanls are given special job counseling. coun-seling. The staff at the Clearfield Job Service encourages any employer interested in hiring a handicapped person to contact their office for more information informa-tion about the program. Handicapped Hand-icapped people wanting employment em-ployment should make application appli-cation with Job Service. THE JOB Serivce is a government-funded agency that works on a non-profit status to assist employers and the unemployed. un-employed. A good representation representa-tion of jobs available in the Davis County communities are listed in the Job Service office. All people are invited to use Job Service to help secure employment. |