Job networking services for someone with 6 years of college?

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I've been using state rehab agencies to help me find employment for the past two years with no success. In the first state I lived in there was a jobs person who would go through job listings related to my degrees (government/nonprofit/politics). That never panned out because I'm so limited by my combination of Asperger's and Sluggish Cognitive Tempo type ADD (issues with dealing with public, sustained writing, math, etc.). I eventually got him to try calling a few local environmental nonprofits (I interned in DC with one) and a consulting firm. That resulted in my only interview in the past 2 years. It turned out to be a waste of time, since the firm was wanting to have rehab pay them to hire someone who could do it all like a normal person.

Eventually I moved to another state and started meeting with rehab here. The social worker here is much lazier and only interested in checking boxes. He's actually sort of bitter towards me since I'm able to travel occasionally on near-free deals. He tried calling a local nonprofit once and then later snapped back at me that it wasn't his job to help that way. Now I'm required to go to weekly "job search" meetings with state workers who throw up their arms and complain when I say I can't do telemarketing and want something with a little education required.

Can anyone recommend some sort of specialized job counseling service that could TARGET and contact as many organizations as possible with a disabled pitch? Job listings are not working.

I went through my local voc rehab and they helped me with issues surrounding a part time job that I managed to find myself, through volunteering at first and then getting hired.

Why don't you ask for a different job coach or case worker?

If you find one, let us all know.

At present, the voc rehab people my kid is seeing keep trying to talk her into getting training for jobs that work heavily with people. this is after the kid, her initial caseworker, and all their test scores say that it's highly unlikely she'd do well in a job where she had to do much that involved direct contact with people.

we're asking for medical billing or library work or bookkeeping training, and they're pushing things that would have her not only interacting directly with strangers heavily, but having to touch them as well (medical technician - the rehab lady suggested she go train to be a phlebotomist (sp?) the other day - the kid not only does not like to have that kind of contact with people, she faints at the sight of needles.)

it's rather discouraging. the voc rehab people here will make no phone calls on her behalf, but are working on her interview skills and could, potentially, send her for a training course if she can identify one. which she has. they say. whatever.

good luck.