As a job seeker in this current climate, are you finding it hard to get the job you want?

EmployAbility Service West Cork is a Department of Social Protection funded employment service. We can provide one to one practical support to suit your needs. We can provide you with an Employment Facilitator or Job Coach who can bring you through the four stage process outlined below

1. Needs Assessment
Getting to know you. Identifying barriers, obstacles and any support needs. Helping you to identify your skills and abilities.
Preparing CV’s, and references etc Matching your skills to suitable jobs
Developing an Action Plan for Job Sourcing. We do all of this through Vocational Profiling.

2. Job Sourcing
Providing support to help you look for work. Approach employers on your behalf
Helping you to prepare for interview. Helping to fix your terms and conditions of employment.

3. Employed with Support
Training you on the job,if necessary. Support via weekly meetings/phone calls
Accessing grants if necessary. Supporting your employer. Helping with your contract and wages.

4. Aftercare / Mentoring
Helping you to move from working with our support to working independently where you no longer need our support.

You can contact the co ordinator of the service on 027 53765 or 086 8546559, to set up a meeting. Or you can fill in the form below and you will be contacted.

Office opening hours:
Monday to Friday
9.00 am until 5pm

You can also visit your local DSP office, and ask to be referred to Employability Service West Cork.

Once you have decided that this is a suitable service for you, and that you are motivated and keen to work, you will be put in touch with one of our employment facilitators in one of our 5 offices across West Cork (Bantry, SKibbereen, Clonakilty, Bandon and Kinsale).

You will meet once a week, to go through the process of CV preparation/update and identifying any support needs. In short, this is a time for the employment factilitator to ascertain the type of work that you are interested in and looking for.
Over a period of weeks, you will go through the Needs Assessment, Job Sourcing and then move into Employment.
This is an 18mth programme.

Will I get a job?
While we make every effort to help you find suitable employment we cannot totally guarantee that this will happen. Finding employment depends on various factors such as

* The amount of available jobs which match your skills/experience and abilities
* You being actively involved in the four stages and committed/motivated in the process
* Finding a job that suits your skills and abilities, and being flexible in the type of work that you will do
* The needs of employers in your area
* The hours of work you are willing to do

We may at any stage exit you from Employ Ability if we feel that it is not the correct service for you. However we will not do this without discussing this with you first. If we feel that another service is more suitable we may (with your consent) refer you to it, for example a training service.

On average we have approximately 125 people on our books at any one time. We always achieve over 60% people in work from this number at any one time

The outcome is totally dependent on:

• Flexibility regarding travel to work
• Flexibility regarding the work that you will do
• Commitment to the process between Employment Facilitator and yourself in the job search
• Motivation in looking for work yourself as well in conjunction with your weekly meetings
• Commitment to the overall process
• Communication to your Employment Facilitator in every part of the process of job search and further support