By Employment Job Coach Constance Taylor
I remember my first conversation with Mr. U He had just moved to Kansas City from New York and he was facing many unresolved issues concerning his diabetic eleven year old daughter. Although he trained with a school bus company for almost three months after coming to Kansas City, he was told he was ineligible to be hired. His employment history was very spotty with large gaps and no high school diploma or G.E.D.
He remembered working for a car rental company as a detailer and truly loved it, so he asked about the possibility of landing a job like that once again. He applied to several car rental companies, but didn’t get any responses. It had been five years ago since he worked as a detailer and his references were no longer be available.
He switched his search to jobs as a dock worker and received several invitations to interview. The work hours wouldn’t work either due to transportation or having to leave his daughter home alone during the evening. He even had some interviews look promising right up to the point of hiring, when the interviewer would ask, “By the way, do you have your G.E.D.”?
Finally, the call we had all been waiting for came. It was from the first application he completed seeking a job as a car detailer. He answered their additional questions and went in for an interview. He was hired for the position! It was exciting and scary all at the same time. Who would have thought that the first application would be the one that landed him his dream job.
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