Looking for Work survey Here are the questions. Tick the box or Write your answer. Survey is Part of Research Study Seamless Journeys to Work for Young Adults with Physical and /or Neurological Disabilities This research is supported under Australian Research Council's Linkage Projects funding scheme (project number LP150100168) and research partners - Jobs Australia and Disability Employment Australia.
Who is doing this survey? I am I am with the help of others A person that is not the young adult looking for a job Write how you know the young adult. Like mum sister I am paid to help the young adult friend someone else. Please tell us 2
About you 1. I am 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 2. I am a man woman I do not want to say 3
? 3. What state do you live? ACT Northern Territory NSW Queensland South Australia 4
Tasmania Victoria Western Australia? 4. My suburb is or my postcode is 5
5. I live... by myself with family with others. Like, friends. 6
? 6. What is your disability? Like Cerebral Palsy or Spinal Bifida Muscular Dystrophy, Low muscle tone Spinal injury or Brain injury Limb difference Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Epilepsy.? Do you have other disability? Like no hearing or only some hearing no sight or only some sight it is hard to learn things it is hard to use my speech it can be hard to understand things thinking seems different. This is called a mental illness. 7
? 7. What do you use to get around? Tell us all that you use. It can be 1 type or many types. bus car. I drive my self car. Someone else drives me. Like, mum. train walk 8
taxi tram bike something else. Please write it here 9
? 8. Do you need your transport to have a ramp? Like, for a wheelchair or mobility scooter? Yes. No. Some of the time. 10
You look for a job? 9. How long have you looked for a job? I have just started. In the last month. a few months, like 3 months. 6 months. 11
1 year. a long-time, Like 2 years. a very long time. Like 3 years I have not looked yet. Thank you. You can stop the survey 12
? 10. When did you start to look for work? at the end of high school. at the end of a TAFE or university course. at the end of a life skills program. Like as part of a life skills program post school course at the end of time in supported work. Like an Australian Disability Enterprises (ADE) sheltered workshop. something else. Please write it here. 13
11. Why did you start to look for a job? The government says I have to look for a job. I want to get a job. My friends all have a job. They think I can look for a job. My family tell me to look for a job. Something else. Please write it here. 14
? 12. Who do you use now to help get a job? A disability employment service. A Jobactive helper. No one. Someone else. Please write it here. 15
Help to get work. 13. Think about your disability employment service or Jobactive helper.? How happy are you with their help? happy OK sad 16
14. Think about your disability employment service or Jobactive helper.? What help do you get to look for work? Tell us all that you use. It can be 1 thing or many things. Look for a job on the internet. Understand about a job I may like to do. Find out what work I can do. 17
Know what to say in my letter to a boss.? Find out what to do in a job interview.? Try out a job. This is called work experience. Feel good about trying to get a job. I have no help. Anything else. Please write it here. 18
? 15. Look at things you said in question 14. When you look for a job what is the most help. 19
This is a blank page 20
? 16. When you look for a job What could make it better? It can be 1 thing or many things. The help I get needs to be better. I need more help. More job choices. 21
More jobs that I can do. They match my skills. More choice. More training. More work experience. Nothing. Something else. Please write it here. 22
17. Use of Technology? 17 A Do you use technology to look for jobs? Like a mobile phone ipad computer. Yes No. Go to question 18? 17 B What do you use? 23
? 17 C Do you use websites to look for jobs? Yes No. Go to question 18? 17 D Which websites do you use the most?? 17 E How much help are the websites to look for a job? help OK no help 24
? 18. Are there things that make it hard to get a job? Like, what people think about you or not the right help to get the job. Yes. Go to next question 19. No. Go to question 21 I don t know. Go to question 21 25
19. Tell us what makes it hard to get a job. It can be 1 thing or many things. How I feel about my self. How confident I am. The cost of things. Like to buy a uniform the tools I need to buy. 26
Where I live. Like there are not many jobs. I can not get in to the building or there is no toilet I can use. There will be no change to the computer. Like, no screen reader or no voice output. What other people think about me. This is called their attitude. 27
Others do not think I can do the job. This is called low expectations. There will not be the help I need to do the job. Like, no support worker. Something else. Please write it here. 28
!!! 20. Look at things you ticked in question 19. What is the hardest thing? Sometime this is called barrier. 29
21. Does access to transport make a difference to the jobs you try to get? No. Go to question 22 Yes. Go to the choices on the next page. Some of the time. Go to the choices on the next page. 30
Why? It can be 1 thing or many things. Cost. It costs too much money. I can not get on it. The public transport only goes some times Like, the bus only comes every 30 minutes. There is no public transport where I live. 31
22. Sometimes things are not fair. You can feel left out. This is called discrimination. 22 A Discrimination makes it hard to get a job. Agree I do not know Do not agree 22 B People with disabilities have less chance to get a job. Agree I do not know Do not agree 32
22 C People are not fair to me when I try to get a job A. Agree I do not know Do not agree 33
? 23 What helps you try for jobs? It can be 1 thing or many things. How I feel about myself and How confident I am. My goals. The skills I have. 34
I have the right information. My family help me. My friends help me. I get help to try for jobs. Something else. Please write it here. 35
? 24 What can we do to make it better to get a job?? 25 Anything else about trying to get a job? 36
The survey is done. Thank you for your help. Email the survey to lisa.stafford@qut.edu.au or Post to Dr Lisa Stafford School of Public Health and Social Work Queensland University of Technology GPO Box 2434 Brisbane QLD 4001 37
Images We used images from Inspired Services Picto - Selector Mayer - Johnson Calendar Social Buzz Pinterest. This survey is part of the Seamless Journeys to Work for Young Adults with Physical and /or Neurological Disabilities research study Australian Research Council's Linkage Projects funding scheme (project number LP150100168) Access Easy English wrote the Easy English. November 2017. 38