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

[Chris Nusbaum]

FYI...  Dave, I didn't know which email to send this to, so I 
sent it to both the Visi and the NFBNET addresses.  If you feel 
it is appropriate, please circulate as necessary, either to the 
Members list or to some other lists.

 Chris Nusbaum

"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The 
real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that 
exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and 
opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical 
nuisance." -- Kenneth Jernigan (President of the National 
Federation of the Blind, 1968-1986.)

  Visit the I C.A.N.  Foundation online at: 
www.icanfoundation.info for
information on our foundation and how it helps blind and visually
impaired children in MD say "I can!"


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 ---- Original Message ------
From: Michael Beattie <beattie.visionarypersonnel at yahoo.com
Subject: [nabs-l] Resume Bank for Job Seekers Who Are Visually 
Impaired
Date sent: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:48:05 -0700 (PDT)

      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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