More than 100 NYC businesses employ people through Job Path. We can’t wait for you to join their ranks.
What is Customized Employment?
It’s simple: you tell us about the tasks and functions your business needs help with, and we find a candidate who can meet your needs. Our job coaches provide on-the-job support (at no cost) so that new employees can master their responsibilities and excel. Customized Employment, a concept recognized by the US Department of Labor, is the process of creating a unique job description that meets the employer’s needs and aligns with the job seeker’s skills.
Putting Customized Employment to Work
Our Customized Employment strategies address specific workplace problems and increase productivity by providing assistance with:
- Routine daily tasks that reduce staff productivity
- Work that is backing up
- New tasks and/or projects that never get done because of lack of time and/or resources
- High staff turnover
- Staff being stretched too thin during peak times/hours
- Issues of safety, compliance and security
“What is it we really look for in team members? We always look for someone who has the heart for hospitality and the work ethic. Job Path has illustrated that the heart and work ethic are not about where you come from but who you are. By bringing people into our team from Job Path, it makes everyone on our team better.”
– Danny Meyer, CEO, Union Square Hospitality Group
Job Path candidates offer a wide array of skills
- Cleaning up after animals outdoors and in facilities
- Giving food according to animal’s diet
- Cleaning and disinfecting cages and floors
- Socialization of cats and dogs at adoption centers and daycare
- Transporting animals to veterinary appointments
- Replenishing water
- Greeting customers
- Answering customer inquiries
- Grooming and bathing animals
- Stocking of products for sale in retail, adoption, and dog daycare settings
- Organizing needed inventory of pet products for sale
- Filing documents
- Sorting
- Shredding
- Photocopying
- Updating regulatory binders
- Scanning documents
- Delivering mail and packages
- Proofreading documents
- Archiving
- Compiling packets and presentations, HR/Marketing
- Answering phone
- Making phone calls
- Ordering supplies
- Data entry and database management
- Computer coding
- Online research of information
- Digitizing
- Updating mailing/donor lists
- Writing and typing memos, e-mails, etc.
- Setting up and getting materials ready for a particular lesson
- Creating educational materials for the classroom
- Reading to children
- Helping teachers out during mealtimes or other points of transition (ex. heating up food, passing out drinks, putting on jackets and sneakers, clean up)
- Assisting with supervision of children (in the classroom and on outings)
- Providing 1:1 assistance to a specific child
- Reinforcing lessons taught by teachers
- Assisting teachers with paperwork, such as taking attendance or inputting data into a computer
- Implementing a healthy snack program
- Tracking student data
- Food preparation- cleaning, chopping, mixing salads, making sandwiches
- Condiment replenishment
- Assisting with making drink bases
- Passing samples
- Answering menu questions
- Maintaining order of lines during busy hours
- Serving food & drinks
- Organizing and folding napkins and linens
- Bussing tables & counters
- Arranging chairs & tables
- Washing dishes
- Tracking inventory
- Packaging food for distribution
- Labeling packages with logo stamps/stickers
- Ensuring that supplies and medical equipment are replenished
- Improving the mobility of patients
- Setting up medical equipment
- Recording medical information
- Measuring patients’ weight and height
- Making up beds, giving out bedpans, and collecting bedpans
- Providing administrative support
- Maintaining up-to-date contact lists
- Drafting and editing communications copy (press releases, publications, social media posts)
- Assisting in maintaining web content and executing social media
- Updating databases and media lists
- Tracking projects and media exposure
- Maintaining calendars and appointments
- Sweeping, mopping, buffing floors
- Dusting and cleaning displays
- Organizing and facing merchandise
- Washing windows
- Collecting and sorting recyclables
- Bailing cardboard
- Maintaining trash receptacles
- Folding towels and rags
- Vacuuming
- Watering plants
- Organizing and maintaining conference rooms
- Restocking kitchen and lounge areas
- Transporting supplies
- Maintaining cleanliness in restrooms
- Wiping down fitness equipment
- Organizing merchandise by style, color, size, brand name, author, number, etc.
- Go-Backs and Return-to-Shelf items
- Greeting customers
- Assisting customers to locate items in a store
- Returning carts and baskets to their proper locations
- Packing and unpacking boxes
- Folding and re-folding
- Attending to dressing rooms
- Identifying damaged merchandise
- Unloading trucks
- Placing security tags and/or stickers on merchandise
- Organizing displays in a store
- Facing shelves
- Approaching customers about memberships
- Calling customers to let them know their orders have arrived
- Assisting with inventory and other data-entry needs
Listen to Gary Mayerson describe his experience at his law firm.
Job Coaches: Who are they? What do they do?
Job coaches work with new employees on-site to help them master their job responsibilities. Depending on the needs of the employee and employer, job coaches continue to provide support anywhere from full-time to only a few times per month, phasing in and out as required. In particular, they:
- Help employees with all aspects of workforce participation, from learning tasks to organizing their work to understanding the workplace culture.
- Provide assistance and advice to supervisors/employers, helping them support their employees and ensure success.
One employer shared his experience: “Our new employee came with a job coach which was absolutely critical and instrumental in making sure Richard could do his job. He was with Richard for 2-3 months – unobtrusive, teaching him the skills he needed to work in this office. Now Richard is doing it perfectly.”
Testimonials: here’s what our employer partners say about working with Job Path
STREAMLINE DENTAL LAB — EMPLOYER PARTNER SINCE 2012
STREAMLINE DENTAL received an award for its commitment to including people with disabilities in its workforce from then Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Commissioner Victor Calise
"Our two staff members from Job Path have been a gift to our company. They bring positive energy, a strong work ethic, and a great attitude." — Issac Hakimi, Streamline Dental Lab
"Our two staff members from Job Path have been a gift to our company. They bring positive energy, a strong work ethic, and a great attitude." — Issac Hakimi, Streamline Dental Lab
THE FRICK COLLECTION — EMPLOYMENT PARTNER SINCE 2015
"Our four Job Path colleagues came to us painstakingly well screened, enthusiastic, and energetic and have proven to be motivated and engaged. We are extremely grateful for and proud of this relationship." — Dana Winfield, The Frick Collection
The New York Public Library — Employer Partner Since 2009
"If you've been struggling to find someone reliable and hardworking, you might want to consider checking out Job Path’s employment programs. Each individual is assigned a counselor who helps train and mentor him/her. Our Children's Room page is the best I've ever worked with." — Rebecca, Children’s Room Librarian, NYPL Jefferson Market branch
If you are interested in working with us to create a position that suits the needs of your business, please contact Aimee Althoff at aalthoff@jobpathnyc.org or call 855-JOB-PATH
Our Employers
- 14th Street Y
- A Better Chance
- Advanced Cared Alliance
- Alpert, Slobin & Rubenstein
- Apollo
- Aramark
- Art House Conservatory
- Athleta
- Audacy
- Bank Street
- Barclays
- Berdon LLP
- Biscuits & Bath
- Blink Fitness
- Blue Bottle Coffee
- Bronx Defenders
- Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
- Brooklyn Autism Center
- Brooklyn Children’s Museum
- Brooklyn Prospect Charter
- Burger King
- Burlington Coat Factory
- CAC Industries
- Cauz for Pawz
- Center for Family Support
- Chartwells
- Chickenshed Theatre
- Circle of Confusion
- Colgate Palmolive
- Columbia University – Irvin Medical Center
- Cooke Academy
- CVS Pharmacy
- D’Agostino’s
- Department of Education
- Department of Labor (Deferred Compensation Plan)
- Disney Store
- Douglas Elliman
- El Rio Grande Restaurant (ARK)
- First Service Residential
- Foot Locker
- Frost Productions
- GallopNYC
- GAP
- Global Autism Project
- Goodwill Industries
- Grant & Eisenhofer
- Gristedes
- Group M
- Grow NYC
- Harlem Grown
- Home Depot
- Home Goods
- Hosteling International
- iHope Academy
- IKEA
- Include NYC
- Intrepid Museum
- Jacob’s Pickles
- JCC
- Jim Henson Studios
- Juniper Valley Animal Hospital
- Knickerbocker Senior Center
- Law Offices of Mandeep Kaur
- Lucille Lortel Foundation
- Luv Michael
- Macy’s
- Manhattan Childrens Center
- Marshall, Conway, and Bradley P.C.
- Marshalls
- Mary McDowell Friend’s School
- Mayerson & Associates
- Mini Melanie
- MTA Mailroom
- Neighborhood Improvement Assoc.
- New World Stages
- New York Hall of Science
- New York Transit Museum
- Notable Growth
- NY Foundling
- NY Public Library
- NYU Langone
- Paper Chase Accounting
- Park Avenue Armory
- Paul Weiss
- Pawlacio Pets
- Perelman Performing Arts Center
- Poly Prep Country Day School
- Poses Family Foundation
- QSAC
- Rebecca School
- Redish
- Restaurant Associates
- Saks Fifth Avenue
- Shake Shack
- Shubert Organization
- Skadden & Arps
- Sloomoo
- Society of Illustrators
- Starbucks
- Stop n’ Shop
- Streamline Dental
- Sullivan and Cromwell
- SuperDry
- Terence Cardinal Cook
- The Frick Collection
- The JBI Library
- The New School
- TJ Maxx
- Trader Joe’s
- UN
- Understood for All
- Union Settlement
- Uniqlo
- Unique People Services
- United Staffing (at NBC Universal Comcast)
- United We Stand of New York
- VA Hospital
- Verona Carpenter Architects
- Walgreen’s
- Wayfarer
- Whole Foods
- Wildlife Conservation Society
- Williams Lea
- Woofs ‘n Whiskers
- YAI
- Zenith Optimedia