FrankenGretchen 0 points 3y ago
VDOB has a database of their own clients which they would prioritize before allowing relocatees to receive services for a job local clients could do. Most states are quite aggressive about this.
I will also say that unless you've personally seen this relationship in action and seen a hiree take, maintain and progress with needed supports for at least six months, you may not be seeing the full picture and could not portray it to prospective hires.
Example: twenty plus years ago, the VA in KY launched an initiative to hire/train and support blind/vi people as their sole pool of switchboard operators. The state jumped in and contacted likely clients while details were hashed. Facilities were slated for overhaul. Hell, they even worked out a bus route change so folks could get through the campus right to the best entry point because, they said, autonomy is part of the VA way. A time table came out and everybody was singing about their benefits and how great it would be to have a government job. Some even trained on mock-ups the state put together to give employees a head start though the VA promised all training would be provided. A year goes by. No hires. The carefully planned, staged facility upgrades, funded by state/fed grants that have been secured have not been started. The bus ran through the parking lot but nobody but other staff and VA clients rode it. (it was a boon for patients and non-driving employees until the route was scaled back and then a lot of those people lost their jobs, too.). By the time I heard about this dream job, deadlines had been pushed back three years and state employment advocates were telling people who'd been GUARANTEED positions that the program might not go off as planned. Some of these people relocated, too, but only from instate. No outstate applicants were recruited. Still, it was not a pretty situation. Though I was hotly recruited, my cw advised me to seek elsewhere and I'm glad I did. I don't remember where the jobs finally went, but they outsourced the whole shebang and let go of the non-disabled people they had, too.
This is what we know. This nebulous offering of a fantastic job with no company name or location is not new at all.
If you are legit, may you find your employees. I'd strongly advise staying with VDOB for sourcing though. It might add credibility -as much credibility as any of us gives DOBs but such also because such boons belong to locals before they get passed around on the internet to anyone willing to let someone drive their whole life to a busless suburb and leave them stranded to build a new life.