Job Placement Timeline and Turnaround

The authorization. A carrier, an insurer or an attorney authorizes a scope and a block of hours or a period, and the search runs within it; when the hours are used or the period ends, the file closes or the referral source extends it in writing. Within that frame, the time to a hire depends on the restrictions, the target occupations, the local labor market and the person's participation.

After the intake meeting and the vocational profile, once the target occupations are set and the resume and applications are ready. The job-seeking skills work comes first because an employer contact made before the person can present the application and interview well is a wasted contact. The referral source sees the target list before employer contact starts, so the search begins on a shared plan.

Restrictions that change while the search is under way, so that the target occupations have to be reset; a labor market with few employers for those occupations; a person who cannot attend sessions or interviews; and an authorization that runs out before the search has reached its employers. Each is reported to the referral source as it arises so that the scope, the hours or the occupations can be adjusted.

Yes, by the referral source. When the authorized hours or the period are nearly used, the status report says so and states what the next period of search would target; the referral source then extends the authorization in writing, narrows the scope or closes the file. Work beyond the authorization is not done on the counselor's own initiative, and nothing is billed that the referral source has not approved.

When the person has been hired and the agreed follow-up period has ended, when the authorized hours or period have been used without an extension, or when the referral source closes the file for a reason of its own, such as a settlement or a change in the claim. In each case the closure report states the outcome, the search log and what remained open at closure.