Virtual OneStop Reentry Employment Opportunities

What This Includes

For reentry case managers

• The platform offers the ability to monitor and track all job-seeker activity, approve or deny client job applications, apply for jobs on behalf of clients, refer clients to specific opportunities, generate reports on activity, security, users, applications, and resumes

For job seekers

• The platform offers career exploration and related industry research, labor market data, targeted employers who are specifically open to hiring individuals with criminal records (referred to as “justice-involved individuals”), and the opportunity to apply for jobs, utilize education, financial, and community resources
• Career exploration tool includes skill matching, identifying skill gaps, occupational interest assessments, and a work importance analyzer
• Labor market tool includes hot jobs, job market competition, job requirements, salary expectation, and connections to employers who are open to hiring reentry job applicants

Key Takeaways

• The VOSREO system links with O*Net for universal occupational codes.
• The system provides local and regional employment, training, and human services information based on client zip code.
• Geographic Solutions offers a collective, community approach to reentry barriers by creating partnerships with community programs and human service, workforce development, and correction agencies to offer as many services as possible to each justice-involved client.
• Support and access to the system continues after release from incarceration.
• Geographic Solutions provides assistance connecting nonprofit programs with federal reentry grants to enable them to access these tools to support reentry participants.
• Nonprofit programs can use these tools to support reentry participants.

Tags: Advising & Coaching Tool, Assessment Tool, Program Development & Design, Online, Free, Free (Registration Required), Workforce Development