The Process

Assess, Train, Graduate Ready To Work

Our process is simple… assess, train, graduate skilled and ready to start your job search and get hired. To serve everyone’s customized needs, we start with Comprehensive Skills assessment.

At this assessment we get to know you, your goals, your strengths and where training will help you to become job ready according to your plan for employment. As we conduct our assessment, tests are used to benchmark what you already know. From this data, we can first outline a training plan and a class schedule that will meet your employment goals.

Then, we use this plan with benchmarks to track and report on your measurable skill progress throughout your time in training.

Once you meet your learning objectives per the plan developed during assessment, you will graduate and be directed to job search and career!

At our online Academy we weave in state of the art technology, assistive technology with business communication skills, reading comprehension, business writing skills to ensure our graduates are ready for the world of work.

Our Three Step Process...

Step One: Assessment

Finding a good match for your training provider is a critical step towards your success. At Sierra we ensure that the match is researched and planned out during the assessment phase.

Our Admissions process begins with a Comprehensive Assessment. We look at each adult’s career goal as it compares with their current skills. A customized, individual training plan is written up that indicates how our online computer and business skills training program can prepare you for the workforce! Need for accommodations and assistive technology is factored into all of our work.

During the Assessment, a Sierra staff member will get to know each person through a variety of methods including in-depth conversation, history, and via results of our testing tools that benchmark knowledge, skills and abilities. This information forms the basis of the custom training plan that is submitted after the assessment is complete. Individual’s and their vocational rehabilitation counselors review the plan, update individual employment plans, and the Academy staff notifies the student of when they can begin classes.

Step Two: Training

Within your assessment report is an outline for a training program that will let you gain skills you need to be qualified to work in the office clerical setting of your choice.

Our online training classroom is staffed by instructors who are committed to helping each learner master the Microsoft Office 365 suite including Outlook for professional email, organization and calendar appointment management, Word for document creation, editing, and use of office templates; PowerPoint for presenting information to groups in a sleek, technology enabled manner, and Excel spreadsheets to track information, including Excel for auto-calculation and entry level bookkeeping roles.

Combining professional business communication skills and online meeting protocols akin with the demands of today’s hybrid office settings, our graduates are ready to succeed at work.

Step Three: Graduate Ready to Work

After training is completed Sierra Group Academy graduates are ready to find jobs in office-based careers, according to their job goals as identified with their VRC and during their assessments.

For more information on what support is offered after graduation, see our FAQ’s. To read about success in employment for some of our graduates, visit our success stories.

Fields of interest/common job titles for most Academy students encompass the following: office clerical, entry level IT & digital support, customer service call center, human resource assistant, AP/AR clerk, and Peer Support and Supports Broker specialist, teaching assistant and more.

Hear what recent graduates had to say about their time at Sierra Group Academy

Sierra’s Commitment to Full Person Service to meet customer choice – as well as long-standing Public Private Partnerships and Community Collaboration relationships are our foundational keys.

At Sierra Group we have a 30+ year history of partnering with adults with disabilities, their vocational counselors, and allied community supports providers to enable full circle employment opportunities for people of all abilities and interests. VRC’s and other community service providers refer potential students for assessment to determine a course of action to gain skills for work. After graduation, Sierra assists in the planning of job search services with us, or in the community with the professionals best suited to make employment success occur.

Not sure what’s out there for you? That’s where our Comprehensive Assessment process helps you and your vocational rehabilitation counselor make an informed choice. Call 800.973.7687 or email OnLineTraining@TheSierraGroupAcadmy.org to request more information or attend a Zoom Tour. Driving up employment opportunities for adults with disabilities is what we do!

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