[nabs-l] Resume Bank for Job Seekers Who Are Visually Impaired

Alena Roberts alena.roberts2282 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 20:02:30 UTC 2011


This sounds like a great opportunity but there is no contact info for the company so I don't know who to send the application to. Can you provide this please? Thanks.

Alena
On Sep 20, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Michael Beattie wrote:

>       Visionary
> Personnel, a 501c3 sponsored organization, announces its new resume bank system
> and seeks new members.  We help job
> seekers who are visually impaired by creating a resume bank and then searching
> for federal government contracts matching the skills of the people in the
> resume bank. We then apply for contracts matching the skills of the individuals
> in the resume bank. Three of our company's most interesting prior contracts
> involved drafting speeches for the White House Office of Science and Technology
> Policy, writing final agency decisions for the Social Security Administration,
> and serving as an administrative judge for the Equal Employment Opportunity
> Commission.
>       The
> Javitz-Wagner O'Day program gives non-profit organizations with employees who
> are legally blind the chance to non-competitively win federal government
> contracts. The JWOD program has been renamed the Ability One program.
> Historically, the program has been used to create menial low paying jobs in
> factories producing office supplies. Among the 600 non-profits in the JWOD
> program, our group was the only one to perform contracts requiring professional
> occupations. We proved the JWOD program can used to create high paying professional
> jobs such as attorneys, paralegals, and mediators. These contracts have now
> expired, and we are applying to be recertified by the Committee for Goods and
> Service from the Blind and Disabled.  
>       Our
> future success hinges on our ability to attract talented people to join the
> resume bank. I hope you will forward the announcement flyer and the membership
> application to your members.
> A free membership
> application is attached below.  Together
> we can work toward eliminating the intolerably high unemployment and poverty
> rate experienced by people who are visually impaired.
> Michael Beattie,
> President
> Visionary Personnel
>  
> Membership Application for Visionary
> Personnel
> Name
> Street
> Address:
> City and
> State
> Zip Code
> Phone Number
> E-mail
> Address:
> Career Goal
> What job
> could you perform now as a stepping stone to your career goal?
> Are you
> interested in serving on the board of directors?
> Are you
> interested in an unpaid internship?
> Our mission
> is to reduce the 75% unemployment rate for people with visual impairments.   We need your ideas.   How would you like to see our organization
> tackle the problem?
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