Employment History

The Employment screen is one of many demographic screens used either when booking an offender into an institution, or when performing an intake on an offender for community work. The Employment screen records the offender's employment history and details.

1. For institutional work: if you haven't used a formpath through the booking sequence, select Institutions Booking Employment from the Main Menu.

   For community work: if you haven't used a formpath through the intake sequence, select Community Intake Employment details from the Main Menu.

2. If necessary, query in the Header block to locate the offender. The screen automatically displays any employment information already recorded.

3. Click on Next Block to move to the Employment Record block.

4. Scroll through the existing entries to see the information in the Additional Details and Employer blocks for each job.

5. To add a new record, click on Insert or scroll to a blank line with the down arrow key.

6. Fill in:

• Employed as: select from the List of Values the offender's position; mandatory.

• Start Date: type in the month and year the offender started this employment; mandatory.

• End Date: type in the month and year the offender ended this employment; optional.

7. Click on Next Block to move to the Additional Details block.

8. Fill in:

• Usual Trade/Occupation: select from the List of Values the offender's occupation; optional.

• Supervisor: type in the name of the offender's supervisor; optional.

• Wage: type in the amount of money earned; optional.

• Period: select from the List of Values the offender's wage period; optional.

• Schedule Type: select from the List of Values the offender's schedule type; optional.

• Comment: type in a comment on this employment record; optional.

• Termination Reason: type in the reason the offender left this employment; optional.

9. Click on Next Block to move to the Employer block.

10. Fill in:

• Employer: type in the name of the person or business that employed the offender; optional.

• Address: type in the employer's address; optional.

• City/Town: select the city or town from the List of Values; optional.

• State: select the state from the List of Values; optional.

• Post Code: type in the zip or postal code; optional.

• Country: select the country from the List of Values; optional.

• Checkboxes: this block includes two dynamic checkboxes that have been labelled by your system administrator to suit your site's needs. Check them as required.

11. Click on Next Block to move to the Contact block.

12. Select from the List of Values the kind of contact telephone number; optional.

13. Type in the telephone number in the next field; optional. Include the area code.

14. Click on Save.

15. Repeat steps 5 to 14 to add other employment records.

16. Click on Next Block to advance to the next screen in the booking or intake sequence.

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