[Job-Discussions] Increasing the hiring the blind competent workers

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Dick, I like these ideas that are coming about. It is hard to prove discrimination if one isn’t hired from an interview. There are so many ways around that that don’t sound like discrimination.

I think the more blind people we have working in in person community based programs the better. If the general public see blind people doing a case manager position, or VR counsoler, etc, that also may help others understand that blind people can do these and other jobs.

Chad

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Dick,

I like these ideas.

I will speak at schools, on my own time, when I have some available, and I am always educating people within my community, about blindness, employment, seeing eye dogs and the like.

It can be exhausting, but if a few people get it, that could trickle down and make all the difference.

Claudia

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Hi Everyone,

I like the way this discussion has turned to problem solving. I have become convinced that our national committee cannot do everything. Here are some things I have seen states do:

Indiana and Washington have done employment seminars in 2021 in which I was asked to participate. This past year, Maryland created its own state employment committee that ran a seminar at state convention. 

On the national level we have created a discrimination toolkit for job seekers. It shows people exactly what to do if they encounter discrimination. It is currently under our legal program. 

We are also re-creating our Employment Committee website as CEO, our Center for Employment Opportunities. It will make information for employers, job seekers, and rehab people more easily available. 

After a year of debugging, we are starting the process of training job counselors in our state affiliates on NFB DirectSource, a radically new job search system. When we are ready to start training job seekers in it, you will hear about it on this list. 

If you looked at registration for the virtual Washington Seminar Career Fair, you will see we have two Zoom training seminars for job seekers. There is also the career fair itself. You can attend the seminars if you choose not to attend the career fair. 

We also have another Where the Blind Work Zoom seminar coming up this month, where you can learn about jobs being done by blind persons. 

So if you all do stuff locally, our employment efforts can expand. But since we are all volunteers, we cannot do more than we each have time to do.

Dick Davis 

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On Jan 14, 2022, at 4:41 PM, Devin Prater via Job-Discussions <job-discussions at nfbnet.org <mailto:job-discussions at nfbnet.org> > wrote:

This sounds good, both to stretch the blind people involved, and businesses too. I'd get local newspapers involved too; then it'd spread throughout other towns and eventually nation-wide.

Devin Prater

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On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 2:11 PM Karen Rose via Job-Discussions <job-discussions at nfbnet.org <mailto:job-discussions at nfbnet.org> > wrote:

No, we would need to send a worker who could do the job. So if you are a blind person who has worked, for example, in the vending stand program, you may very well know how to use a cash register. If you are a blind person who regularly cooks at home, you may well be a very good person to send to a sandwich shop.… Thoughts? 

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On Jan 14, 2022, at 12:00 PM, Bryan Schulz via Job-Discussions <job-discussions at nfbnet.org <mailto:job-discussions at nfbnet.org> > wrote:

Hi,

If I was the employer and say for a fast food joint, I’d be pissed off when the blind person shows up and can’t cook or use the cash register due to safety or accessibility.

Bryan

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Our independent living center, which is the first in the country, has always included some blind people on their staff. I am beginning to consider the possibility of approaching them with the idea of forming a temp agency of people with disabilities who want to work. We could then put forward on platforms like Nextdoor and local Facebook pages that we have a temp agency willing and eager to help small businesses who are needing to close for lack of staff whenever they have too many staff people quarantining. They would not know until our temp employees arrived that we have disabilities. Thoughts?? 

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On Jan 14, 2022, at 8:44 AM, Ericka via Job-Discussions <job-discussions at nfbnet.org <mailto:job-discussions at nfbnet.org> > wrote:

It’s my experience in our state that independent living centers know nothing about people who are blind unless they hire a blind employee. You are very right Justin. I’m not thinking about myself however. I’m thinking about others. I know that one independent living center in Wisconsin did a work readiness class but it was so generalized I didn’t benefit. 

There are tons of jobs in healthcare. What are the advocates at headquarters doing with EPIC? They are not very willing to make their software accessible. And you can’t use a IRA because it’s not Hyppa compliant.

Ericka Nelson

On Jan 14, 2022, at 9:41 AM, Justin Williams via Job-Discussions <job-discussions at nfbnet.org <mailto:job-discussions at nfbnet.org> > wrote:

Training on work readiness and finding jobs, and resources on how to make things more accessible.  Maybe even have our on work ensentive coordinators for the NFB to assist with ssdi and ssi benefits.

Sometimes, that can really help pay for resources like AIRA or transportation or equipment.  I only suggested the NFB helping with that because Centers for independent living , Voc rehab and other agencies that should have them, might not be as easy to get a hold of or access right when you need them.

Justin

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Hi all,

What an interesting thread. I'm not sure Melissa envisioned her question turning into this discussion.

I agree with Karen in a way. Throughout the pandemic, I have been asking myself how we can market ourselves to employers who are desperate for workers. It seems tragic to me that we are left out of the labor market in general, but at a time like this, it's just so unnecessary. But we must target our campaigns like Dick suggests. It's not all about advertising and hoping for the best. Unfortunately, employers need more than that.

Accessibility is an even larger barrier than many of us probably realize. The gap between the development of technology and the amount of that technology we can access is ever increasing. I took a job this summer, and I actually needed a reader just to do simple tasks, like helping me fill out a time sheet and make online documents accessible.
And this was with an employer who did everything they could to accommodate. The tendency is to believe that work from home jobs are the solution, but my experience working from home has been that employers are more difficult to get a hold of when there are issues, and the time spent waiting for responses and fixes is much longer than it would be in person.

Ok, so my complaining session is over. These are just my observations.
I think the employment committee has done a lot in the last several years. But I also think that it takes a village to raise an employer.
Maybe I shouldn't sound so flip, but even the most open of employers need educating. So it's not an advertising campaign we need, it's people who are willing to sit down and educate potential employers.
And that's the tough part. We have to convince them that once they are properly educated, they will get talented employees out of the bargain. In some cases, we have to convince them that literally overhalling their inaccessible systems is worth it. And sadly, for some employers, it won't be.

However... We should definitely engage in those training efforts where we can. We need to engage the best minds in accessibility to tackle those barriers, and we should have them team up with those who have the power to change attitudes about blindness. The truth is that Robert is right. Most sighted people have never even met a blind person, and they don't know how we do the most basic of life tasks.

Perhaps this is what the employment committee is already doing. I don't know the details. But as someone who has been and will be in the job market sooner than I would like, I have been pondering possible strategies for improving the employment outcomes for blind people. I wish every affiliate could have an employment specialist to work on local employment issues. I wish, like Dick said, chapters would have an employment focus time at every meeting or separate from meetings.
The employment focus time could also include info about volunteer and educational as well as advancement opportunities for those who may not be looking for work for whatever reason.

Getting blind people employed has to be a coordinated team effort. I love that so many of us on this list are willing to help. I am also passionate about this topic and will be glad to help in any way I can.
The key for blind people is to not give up, to keep moving/seeking in whatever ways we can, and to stick together. If employers don't want to hire us, then we must try to motivate and inspire one another so that we have the courage to keep trying, keep approaching, and continue working together to educate them.

Good luck, Melissa. Hopefully you find some promising opportunities at the job fair coming up soon.

Julie

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True.

You've put forth a yeomen's effort.

Justin

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I agree Justin. There isn’t much here though. One independent living 

center and Wisconsin does things very differently from another. And 

nothing in the state of Wisconsin required to fill out or websites mind you is accessible.

It’s a fight we have been fighting and are still losing it. The staff 

on the ground knows that things aren’t accessible. The upper echelon 

who makes the decisions doesn’t care. You can get anything from the 

state of Wisconsin in a different language. Rail in large print is not 

one of them. They build an app that isn’t accessible so the letters 

that you could read  are still not accessible. I can’t do it alone. I’m trying to do my best.

I wish we had the amount of NFB members in Wisconsin that we used to.

Ericka Nelson

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Joining network after work for some of you might be good on the meet 

up list.

Using mainstreme community resources in combination with what we are 

doing will be good.

Justin

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Exactly what I was trying to say. This is what I want to have happen. 

If they can put that much energy into automatic cars which I don’t 

trust they can put this much energy into educating employers. Problem 

with the career fair is that most of the people out there are tech 

companies which doesn’t go well with my social work skills. Plus at my 

age I don’t want to move out of the area just for a minimum wage job 

because I haven’t had a lot of direct experience. What you’re doing 

will help the 18 and 19-year-olds, but not us who have probably 

another good 20 years to work. I didn’t get any training in how to 

advocate for reasonable accommodations when I was at BLIND Inc.. I 

asked but nobody would talk to me. I have experience in the political 

arena but not good experiences with employers. They don’t take blind 

people seriously one on one . That’s my experience. The amount of education needed I can’t provide the entire city of Janesville for example.

And not all of us my age are text savvy enough.

Ericka Nelson

On Jan 12, 2022, at 9:00 PM, Karen Rose via Job-Discussions 

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Are there people with the NFB marketing team who could flush out this 

type of plan? I am not trained in marketing but rather in career 

coaching and in psychotherapy, and I know we have others much better 

qualified to manage and to budget for any type of marketing campaign. 

It is difficult to target specific individual employers locally, as 

most small businesses at least are struggling just to stay open. I 

know that there are many blind people with excellent education and 

training, who would love to be working now and filling some of their 

needs. Many have already gone through  training in interview skills 

and in how to request reasonable accommodations. I am thrilled to see 

that and if P is working on projects to match blind people with 

specific employers. I would love to be helpful in this if I can. 

Please let me know if there is anything I can do to be helpful. :-)

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On Jan 12, 2022, at 2:51 PM, Richard Davis via Job-Discussions 

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Hi Karen and Ericka,

Employers are experiencing labor shortages and are working with us in 

the NFB to hire blind people. They realize that blind people can fill 

their needs. We are currently working with lots of them, and with the 

expansion of our website coming in the next year, we will have many tools to offer them.

Right now, we are running into these problems:

Lack of accessibility to employer systems, which often requires system 

redesign.

Lack of understanding about reasonable accommodations, which in the 

case of Amazon, is not a trivial matter, as some of their job 

functions are not and probably cannot be made accessible, in which 

case we are looking at selective job placement and work-arounds.

Lack of decent education, rehabilitation, career planning, and career 

training for blind people, who sometimes lack the most basic interview 

skills.

Having a national ad campaign is expensive and probably doesn't go 

deep enough to address the above problems.  I am not averse to sharing 

your idea with the Employment Committee, but in order tor me to do so, 

it needs to arrive in the form of a fully fleshed out plan with a 

budget, media to be targeted, and planned employer penetration rate.  Also a fundraising plan.

Let me suggest some alternatives:

Got local employers? Go talk to them, and see if they are interested 

in working with us.

Hold training sessions for local chapter members on job seeking skills.

Work with your state rehab agency to make sure blind people are 

getting good training for real jobs.

Go to the NFB website, access the Self-Advocacy Employment Toolkit and 

teach people how to use it:

https://nfb.org/programs-services/advocacy/advocacy-resources/self-adv

ocacy-employment-toolkit

The NFB legal program has other resources for job seekers and employers.

Please explore and use these valuable tools.

I don't mean to discourage any of you, but we are far beyond the point 

where PSA's are going to work. We need face to face contacts.

I think talking to local colleges with business programs is an 

excellent idea. Why don't you all come up with a plan to do that and carry it out?

Everything helps.

Best,

Dick Davis

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 4:13 PM Karen Rose via Job-Discussions 

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Is this something that the employment committee might be interested 

in? If so I would love to work with them :-)

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On Jan 12, 2022, at 12:29 PM, Ericka via Job-Discussions 

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I agree with you Karen. Dick why don’t you take notes and let’s get a 

video PSA on TV and a radio campaign. You can’t tell me that there 

aren’t talented people at headquarters or in the NFB that can’t make 

this happen. These videos can be put on LinkedIn as well.

Ericka Nelson

On Jan 12, 2022, at 11:55 AM, Karen Rose via Job-Discussions 

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But wouldn’t this be an excellent time for us to run a marketing 

campaign to employers and recruiters letting them know how available 

we are, how willing we are to work and to show up, and that we are 

here, ready and able to fill their open positions, thus allowing their businesses to remain open?

Many businesses are closing for periods of time due to lack of 

staffing. We could be the people who allow them to remain open. Right 

now there are more jobs open than there are people wanting to work.

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On Jan 12, 2022, at 9:21 AM, Robert Sollars via Job-Discussions 

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Having on that side of the business for most of my career, half at 

least, it’s very simple;

The less they hire disabled, of any kind, individuals the less 

paperwork they have to do and the less they have to worry about with 

properly implementing all of the laws, rules, regulations, and 

pitfalls of hiring someone like that.

I’m in the process of developing a evacuation, generalized of course, 

for employers to follow with disabled employees so that they can 

better relate to and plan for us.

Robert

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why do people in HR act like that?

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 11:21 AM Robert Sollars via Job-Discussions 

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iT is unfortunately, but someones first impression is what gives the 

leeway for dismissing or not offering the job…because they do’t 

understand or wish to limit their liability because of a disabled 

person in the organization…trust me, I seen it many times when I was 

sighted

Robert

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Yes they can be?   because why would I waste time going to an interview to

be turned away   doing this is this in my opinion is the same as turning

away a regular bodied african american bassed soley on their skin color.

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:53 AM Ericka via Job-Discussions 

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Yeah that’s true. But then when they shorten up an interview you know 

some thing is “not right“ with them. You can hear it in their voice 

especially when you walk in and they see the cane. It’s either too 

quiet or some other thing. My husbands had the experience where you 

went to the interview, the receptionist saw him with his cane being 

totally blind and reported that to the person they were supposed to 

speak to. Then the receptionist came back and said that the person was 

busy and couldn’t meet with him. That’s the signal for we’re freaking 

out here and if we don’t interview you and pass you up then we can’t be held responsible for being discriminatory.

Ericka Nelson

On Jan 11, 2022, at 4:03 PM, Melissa R Green via Job-Discussions 

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Oh my goodness. That is so true. You have to go through many rejections.

And, you do know who is interested in hiring you and who is just going 

through the motions.

Those people are usually freaking out. But you don’t know it because 

they can still go through the interview.

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On Jan 10, 2022, at 2:43 PM, Ericka Nelson via Job-Discussions 

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Oh Robert you bomb! You have to have 50% optimism and 50% realism to 

look for a job. The trick is to figure out who is most sincere about 

hiring you had a job interview and who is just going through the motions.

Ericka J. Nelson

1927 Green Valley Dr.

Janesville WI 53546

H: 608-754-8671

C: 262-434-0817

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Good idea, but the biased that most employers will have against hiring 

a disabled person, blind or just in a wheelchair is something that 

must be over come first. Most employers won’t see us as a fit or being 

able to do the job, just an annoyance that has to be dealt with 

because of federal law.

Robert

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Hi. Given the extreme shortage of workers and the fact that businesses 

are closing for periods of time because of lack of staffing, is there 

something we can do, possibly nationally, to advertise to employers 

and recruiters that blind people are here, available to work, and 

excited for the opportunity? It seems like this could be a fantastic 

time to market blind people to desperate employers. Any thoughts?

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On Jan 10, 2022, at 9:14 AM, Ericka via Job-Discussions 

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I’m at a crossroads myself. Can’t go back to being on my feet working 

with seniors because of foot issues and leg problems. Waiting for 

vocational rehab assessment to be done and trying to discern myself 

where are my next move out to be. Thought you were working with kids before.

Ericka Nelson

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Hi.

Thank you so much Ericka.

It is very helpful. Wibbb pat Pj for you.

Have a good day.

Best!

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Subject: Re: [Job-Discussions] introduction and two questions.

I am aware that there are jobs with spectrum/charter that are call 

center related. The process is kind of interesting. The skills 

inventory or whatever it is you take to help you determine which jobs 

to apply for is accessible. My husband did it on his iPhone with very 

little frustration which is very unusual.

Melissa I totally get it about not wanting to do cold calls or beg for 

charities. I wouldn't want to do that either. Sometimes communities 

have an app helping connect employers and perspective clients/workers. 

Janesville Wisconsin has such. A lot of times it's things like what 

you're looking for and then sometimes it's all factory work or house 

cleaning jobs.. Give PJ a pat for me!

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