Wonderful employers make our communities a successful place to live and work.  Washington Vocational Services would like to recognize Mick Plath Owner of U.S. Archiving for his commitment to our community.

Mick was asked to share his thoughts about working with Washington Vocational Services:
 
“With a huge backlog of important government documents that needed scanning, we found ourselves in desperate need of document prep specialists and an operator to run one of our high speed Kodak scanners. After placing several ads on-line and after several interviews with applicants we still couldn’t seem to fill our specialized need for a scanning operator. Paula Bouwer from Washington Vocation Services responded to me by email and suggested that she might have someone with the skills we needed.  I was a little skeptical at first knowing that the type of scanning operator we required would be difficult to find and would probably require weeks of training to get them to average skill levels.  The next day Paula brought her client Lisa Budinich to us for an interview along with a person skilled in sign language to help in the communication.  Lisa has a hearing impairment and although she communicates nicely Paula felt that the interpreter could help the process. 
 
Paula explained the history of WVS, their programs and the benefits that we would realize by working with WVS. She explained the support we would receive by hiring Lisa and the on-going services that were available if we needed them.  It took us only a short time to get excited about Lisa’s potential skills and capabilities.  To our surprise Lisa had not only been a scanning operator but had actually worked on our exact Kodak scanner platform with the same application software. Lisa proved to be the dream hire and the exceptional employee.  From day one Lisa proved her skills.  She immediately became highly productive and from that first day had better than average scanning proficiency.  Several days later she had learned our processes, is now one of our top scanning operators and has received a raise in pay.
 
 After several months of having Lisa on our payroll we couldn’t be happier.  Lisa continues to be a model employee with great personality and exceptional work ethic. Paula and her staff from WVS continue to check in with us and offer their support anywhere necessary.  One of the WVS services that we took advantage of early on was the teaching of all of our employees how to best blend with Lisa in our organization.  We all appreciated this extra training and now recognize ways to make the relationship better for all of us.  This was an excellent learning experience for all of us.
 
I have now joined WVS’ Business Advisory Council and look forward to anything our company can do to support WVS in the placement of their clients.  For our future hiring needs I will be using WVS to help us find the right employees for the job.  Our continued growth will allow us to hire more employees.  Knowing the staff at Washington Vocational Services has been a very pleasant experience and has made my life easier.  Thanks you very much for finding me and USArchive & Imaging Services.  

	Job Title	Wages/hr
	Home Department	$8.70
	Inserter	$7.75
	Assembler/Production	$8.00
	Future of Flight Tour Guide	$13.00
	Portioner/Kitchen Helper	$7.75
	Estates Manager	$18.50
	Material Handling	$7.68
	Janitor	$10.00
	Desktop Support	$13.00
	Nursing Assistant Certified	$8.50
	Net Hanger	$7.63
	Dietary Aide	$8.50
	Assistant Teacher	$7.63
	Landscaping Assistant	$10.00
	General Clerk 1	$10.34
	Fiberglass Repair Technician	$9.00
	Scanning Clerk	$7.63
	Tech Support	$12.00
	Inventory Assistant	$10.50
	Nutrician Aide	$7.63
	Patient Advocate	$14.00
	Average Wage	$10.39