DVJS Client Newsletter Summer 2016/17

CLIENT NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2016 Hi, everyone OFFICE LOCATIONS Box Hill Suite 2, 25-29 Prospect Street, 3128 Cranbourne Level 1, 15 Childers Street, 3977 Moorabbin Suite 4, Ground Floor, 1 Taylor Street, 3189 Narre Warren 64 on Victor, Suite 3 & 4, 64 Victor Crescent, 3805 Dandenong Ground Floor, M+K Building, 40-42 Scott Street, 3175 Glen Waverley Suite 12, 40 Montclair Avenue, 3150 WWW.DVJS.COM.AU Oakleigh 5 Station Street, 3166 Pakenham Hollander House, Level1, 3/37 Main Street, 3810 2016 has been a very productive and successful year for DVJS obtaining over 500 job placements with supportive employers from unskilled positions to apprenticeships and professional appointments. It is great to see so many of you now working proving your worth in a broad range of employment positions that vary in their skill sets and industries that includes but not limited to; Retail & Customer Service, Data entry/ IT, Call Centre Operators, Hair Dressing, Teaching, Security, Kitchen Hands, Console Operators, Landscaping, Animal Care, Aged Care and General Factory Hands. 500 lives were significantly changed this year by having a regular job and we hope we can place even more of you in 2017! There were many companies that employed multiple DVJS job seekers this year - EDMI Gas, Action Pack, Rapid Pack, Stamford Hotel, Anaconda, Victorian Clothing Exporters, Berwick Mazda, New World Honda, Biscay Greetings are just a few of those that did...many job seekers are now independent of DVJS forging sustainable careers with their employer. DVJS has been operating for over 23 years & having satisfied employers recruiting multiple people demonstrates we are doing something right! Some job seekers that obtained a job were unable to keep it...reasons varied from job suitability to health. Although these jobs did not become long term, DVJS keeps striving to find you the ‘right’ job and learns from previous jobs so that hopefully the issue does not recur again. We cannot guarantee a ‘job for life’...we can only put you forward and hope that with your skills & attitude, our support and the employer’s preparedness to make it work that it will work! More and more employers are taking on new workers as casuals as they need a flexible work force and want to see how new workers settle before offering permanent employment. Some job seekers won’t consider working casually initially but a job is a job and you have to be flexible and meet the employer’s needs. If you don’t, someone else will & you miss out. From my own experience, I started as a casual day care aide working with the Spastic Society whilst attending Uni. This was not my dream job or a job that I was even considering when at high school but was presented to me by a neighbour. Who would have known that this casual position would set a new employment path for me? I have now been in disability for over 30 years...being flexible and open to take a casual job opened me to new experiences and opportunities. Should your DVJS consultant present you with a job that you may not have thought about before, don’t feel like they are failing you or not listening but take the view they are only presenting you with other opportunities to which you can grow. DVJS would like to thank all of you for your support throughout 2016 by allowing DVJS to be the agency assisting you find and hold employment and we look forward to working with you during 2017. Please note that DVJS will be closed from Friday 23rd December and will re-open on Tuesday 3rd January. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and successful 2017. [email protected] TEL: 1300 385 738 FAX: 9793 6200 FACEBOOK: DVJSEMPLOYMENT