Aspect Employment Mentoring

Aspect Employment Mentoring

We offer one-on-one strengths-based employment support to assist teens and adults on the autism spectrum prepare for, find and maintain meaningful employment. Mentoring support is tailored to each individual need and can include:

• Autism-specific job skills assessment, occupational decision making and skills matching
• Supporting job seekers identify, search and apply for suitable and meaningful jobs

• Support key transitions through school, further education, employment and whole of life
• Pre-vocational skill development such as transport, time management, understanding your finances, building skills for independence
• Job readiness and preparation
• Developing and improving skills for finding employment including interview skills, writing an effective resume and ‘selling yourself’ to an employer
• Developing skills for finding and maintaining employment including communication, organisational, social skills, and understanding the hidden curriculum of the workplace and the underlying expectations of employees
• Understanding your autism and your unique skills and strengths for the workplace
• Developing self-awareness and building confidence for the workplace
• Workplace orientation and identifying reasonable adjustments
• Sourcing and settling into jobs, internships, placements, work experience and volunteering opportunities
• Individual employment support including training for employers

Locations

Aspect offers face-to-face appointments in Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle. We also offer appointments via telehealth across the country.