[Job-Discussions] Posting from yesterday

Fri Feb 16 23:43:53 UTC 2024

Hello,

I am posting this a third time to see if anyone else wants to take
advantage of this opportunity. Some people have asked me questions about
it. I have done my best to answer them in recent postings, but here is what
I posted earlier. If you see accessibility issues, please take them up with
the people who run the boot camp.  If you know how to fix them, please help
them out. The camp is free, so do your part to help it be successful for
yourselves and for other blind people. We are all in this together.

Boot camp begins March 5, so you need to get moving if you want to
participate. Classes will be run on a discord server. They are working out
a few accessibility bugs, but everything should be accessible by then. Be
prepared to work hard. See full information below.

Dick Davis

Software Developers

Kevin Fjelsted of R. D. Partners, Inc. is interested in hiring blind
persons as software developers. They are engaged in developing
telecommunications software for their customers, including CRM LIght and
iOS applications for iPhone.

As you may know, finding software developers who know accessibility is a
big problem today. Kevin thinks hiring blind persons is the solution to
this problem.

Given the demand for software developers today (100,000 job vacancies
nationwide) companies are no longer requiring four year degrees in computer
science or information technology. Instead, a number of "boot camp"
training programs have cropped up, some of them quite expensive.  R.D.
Partners has found a nonprofit that has agreed to train people for them at
no charge to trainees.

What do you need to do to take advantage of this opportunity? First of all,
be a power computer user with knowledge of accessibility. Some training
and/or experience in software development is recommended, but a solid
interest in learning and a commitment to this type of work is definitely
required. They will be able to determine if you have the aptitude pretty
quickly.

This is a job for a creative person. Many software developers are writers,
poets, and artistic types. That may surprise some of you, but it is true.

If you feel you are qualified, contact kevin.fjelsted at rdpartnersinc.com. He
is willing to answer the kinds of technical questions I cannot.

Best wishes,

Dick Davis

NFB Employment Committee

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 5:37 PM Richard Davis <dickblind at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Brent,
> You may want to go back into the archives because I posted more
> information before this. But in the meantime, many people go into software
> development using what are called Boot Camps. This particular employer
> requires that applicants possess the skills that people normally get
> through a boot camp. The boot camp they use is free, unlike the $5,000 many
> of them charge. The person who developed it is currently working in a boot
> camp, but wanted to help out blind people. If you contact Kevin Fjelsted at
> R. D. Partners, Inc. (copied on this email) he can answer job related
> questions. If you are interested in signing up for the course, he will send
> you a link to it. Since he is not responsible for the course materials, you
> will need to contact the people running the course to learn more. The
> course is run on a discord server, and there are some accessibility issues
> that need to be worked on. Some of the blind people who have signed up for
> the course are working on them, and if you sign up for it, you can be put
> in touch with them. Kevin tells me that anyone without the aptitude for the
> training will learn that it isn't for them pretty quickly, unlike colleges,
> which will keep stringing you along. The course will require that you
> create a portfolio that you can use to apply for jobs. Kevin's company
> hires remote workers.  Course begins March 5.
> Hope this helps,
> Dick Davis
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 4:45 PM Brent Harding via Job-Discussions <
> job-discussions at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
>> I would be interested in something like this, but I don't know much about
>> programming besides a small shell script I made here and there to convert
>> folders of files, but it had no error checking or anything. I know the
>> graphical interface stuff is a lot more complex than that, and one of the
>> hard things in learning is that a lot of the stuff on YouTube uses a mix of
>> coding with drag and drop, and the like. I would like to learn though,
>> whether or not I would get selected for a position at the end of it. Would
>> something like this be a good start, or what courses, taking access tech in
>> mind for programming would I be better to do first?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Job-Discussions <job-discussions-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of
>> Dick Davis via Job-Discussions
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 12:09 PM
>> To: job-listings at nfbnet.org; job-discussions at nfbnet.org; rehab at nfbnet.org;
>> Employment-Committee at nfbnet.org; Karly Prinds <
>> Karly.Prinds at blind.state.ia.us>; Kristopher Crawley <kcrawley at saavi.us>
>> Cc: dickblind at gmail.com
>> Subject: [Job-Discussions] Posting from yesterday
>>
>> One individual called Kevin Fjelsted about the training opportunity for
>> software developers that I reposted yesterday to ask if the training was
>> paid training.
>>
>> It is not. You don’t pay for it, nor do you get paid for it. It is free.
>> You have to take and pass the training in order to qualify to be hired by
>> their company. You still have to go through the interview process.
>>
>> Some people have asked, is this a scam? No, it is not. I have known Kevin
>> for many years. He worked with one of our center graduates to help him get
>> a job.
>>
>> What it is, is an opportunity to get into a highly paid job at no cost to
>> you personally.
>>
>> I hope this answers the questions you all may have.
>>
>> Dick Davis
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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