Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 441 - Human Services Department › Title IX - Work Incentive Demonstration › Chapter 93 - Promise Jobs Program › Rule 441-93.6 - Job Readiness and Job Search Activities

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
Job readiness and job search activities include job readiness
				  skills training and other activities that prepare a participant to search for
				  or obtain employment, individual and structured job search, unplanned job
				  opportunities, substance abuse treatment, mental health treatment, and other
				  rehabilitation activities. The participant and the PROMISE JOBS worker shall
				  incorporate into the FIA the job readiness and job search activities that are
				  appropriate for the goals, work history, skill level, and life circumstances of
				  the participant.
(1)
Job
				readiness.
Job readiness prepares participants to search for or obtain
				employment. Job readiness consists of job readiness skills training and other
				activities completed outside of a training session that prepare a participant
				to search for or obtain employment.
a.
Delivery of job readiness skills training.
Job readiness
				skills training is provided in scheduled sessions consisting of up to 30 hours
				of structured activity per week.
b.
Job readiness skills training.
Job readiness skills training
				may include but is not limited to:
(1)
				Interests and skills assessment;
(2) Self-esteem building and motivational
				exercises;
(3) Identifying and
				eliminating employment barriers;
(4) RÃƒ©sumÃƒ©
				development;
(5) Completing job
				applications and follow-up letters;
(6) Obtaining interviews and telephone
				skills;
(7) Interviewing skills
				development;
(8) Goal attainment
				planning;
(9) Soft skills and life
				skills;
(10) Job market trends and
				finding job leads;
(11)
				Self-marketing and positive attitude building; and
(12) Job retention skills.
c.
Other job readiness
				activities.
Job readiness may include activities that prepare the
				participant to search for or obtain employment and are completed outside of a
				training session. This includes activities such as but not limited to working
				individually with Iowa workforce development (IWD), bureau of refugee services
				(BRS), or FaDSS staff to develop a rÃ©sumÃ©, improve interview
				skills, or identify any of the other skills listed in paragraph
				93.6(1)
"b."
d.
Attendance.
(1) Attendance
				is required when a participant is scheduled for job readiness skills training
				or other job readiness activities unless the participant has good cause as
				described at rule 441-93.14 (239B) or a barrier as
				described at subrule 93.4(5). Participants who miss any portion of job
				readiness skills training may be required to either make up the missed portion
				of the sessions or to retake the entire week of training based on practical
				worker judgment and participant need.
(2) Participants who obtain employment are
				required to continue the job readiness skills training unless the scheduled
				training hours conflict with the scheduled hours of
				employment.
e.
Supportive payments allowed.
Child care assistance and
				transportation payments shall be provided as described at rule
				441-93.11 (239B) when needed to
				participate in job readiness skills training or other job readiness activities.
				The transportation payment shall be paid before the first scheduled day of
				participation.
(1) Participants who must
				repeat or make up any portion of job readiness skills training because of
				absence due to reasons as described at rule
				441-93.14 (239B) shall receive
				an additional transportation payment as described at subrule 93.11(3) for each
				day that must be repeated and child care assistance. This rule applies only
				when the participant will have transportation costs that exceed the
				participant's original payment because of repeating or making up a portion of
				job readiness skills training.
(2)
				Participants who must repeat or make up any portion of job readiness skills
				training as a result of absences due to reasons other than those described at
				rule 441-93.14 (239B) shall not
				receive an additional transportation payment.
f.
Documenting job readiness skills
				training or other job readiness participation.
Hours of participation
				in job readiness skills training or other job readiness activities shall be
				documented as described at subrule 93.10(2).
g.
Failure to participate in job
				readiness skills training activities.
Participants who without good
				cause do not appear for scheduled job readiness skills training activities as
				stated in the FIA shall be considered to have chosen the limited benefit plan.
				Procedures at subrule 93.4(5) and rules
				441-93.13 (239B) and
				441-93.14 (239B) shall
				apply.