What do you need to know to be successfully employed? If you have addressed the skills in the Transition Checklist and the Transition Planner (located in the Assessments tab), you are on your way to assuring you have the necessary skills. The Transition CheckIst reviews skills in twelve areas that are important for independent living and employment after high school. These skill areas are hearing loss and hearing technology, communication needs and accommodations, social, functional, money management, survival, work-related, communication, school/work- related grooming, health and safety, recreational, and education/training after high school. The needs that are identified on the checklist are transferred to the planner that is used to organize instruction and activities from the checklist.

You will want to read 10 Common Workplace Barriers and 10 Workplace Solutions as well as Tips and Worksheet to Get Ready for College and Employment located under Resources for additional information.