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<div align="center"><b>NFB Job Seekers Seminar<br>
Saturday June 30, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.<br>
Rosetta Room, Atrium Mezzanine<br>
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8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. <u>Welcome, Introduction, Agenda Review, and
Announcements</u> – Employment Committee Chair Dick Davis and
others. (This includes job vacancy announcements - let the Chair
know if you have one to make.) <br>
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8:45 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. <u>Where The Blind Work</u>. A great
database and mentoring resource for blind career explorers and job
seekers. Learn how to use it and contribute to it.
<u>Presenter</u>: Robert Leslie Newman, President, NFB Writer’s Division
and Employment Committee Member.<br>
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9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. <u>Is a federal job in your future? Find
out</u>! Are federal jobs going away? Not in your
lifetime! An executive order from President Obama sets ambitious
federal hiring goals for people with disabilities, and one of them could
be you. <u>Moderator</u>: Brenda Mosby, MA, CRC, Vocational
Specialist, Colorado Center for the Blind. <u>Participants</u>:
Dwight Lewis, Supervisory Administrative Judge, U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC); Melissa L. Speer, Regional Director for
the Southwest and Rocky Mountain Region, Office of Federal Contract
Compliance Programs (OFCCP), Department of Labor; Gary Van Dorn,
Installment Agreement Examiner, Internal Revenue Service; and Ronza
Othmann, Equal Employment Opportunity Specialist, Centers for Medicare
and Medicaid Services, HHS. <br>
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11:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. <u>NFB Center Training Equals Jobs!<br>
</u>Learn how NFB Center training can give you the skills, attitudes, and
self-confidence to get the job of your dreams. <u>Presenters</u>:
Executive Directors Shawn Mayo of BLIND, Inc., Julie Deden of the
Colorado Center for the Blind, and Pam Allen of the Louisiana Center for
the Blind. <br>
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11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. <u>Good Jobs for Everyone – Including
Blind People!</u> Who says blind people can't work in the
mainstream? Not the Texas Workforce Commission! Learn how
many of the state's jobs in demand are filled by blind people. Find
out how they do it, and how to use your state’s workforce investment
services to do the same. Everyone stars in this presentation!
<u>Presenters</u>: Sal Adamski, Workforce Improvement Director for
Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County, Tarrant County Workforce
Development Board; Tiffany Love, Program Coordinator, Texas Workforce
Commission; and Mick Farmington, Business Specialist, Texas Workforce
Commission, Labor Market and Career Information department.<br>
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12:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. <u>Questions and Answers, Announcements</u>.
Individual help and information from committee members and presenters,
job vacancies, people looking for jobs. <br>
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<u>Special Note</u>: <br>
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1) Bethel Murphy and Susan Clark of the Louisiana Center for the Blind
Career Center will be available throughout the seminar to provide
individual assistance to jobseekers, including working on resumes,
answering questions, and providing ideas and advice. <br>
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2) <u>Job Exchange</u>. Individuals who know of job vacancies may
announce them at the beginning and end of the seminar, and between agenda
items. Jobseekers are welcome to bring resumes and distribute them
at the seminar. Please let Dick, Bethel, or Susan know if you have
something to announce or distribute, and we will work you in. <br>
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3) We encourage networking between participants and presenters. If
you want to network with someone at the seminar, including one of the
presenters, why not invite them to lunch? If that won't work out,
maybe they'll be willing to stay after and talk with you. Most of
the presenters will have handouts. We'll tell you where they
are.<br>
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4) We are recording the seminar, and the file will be available for
download from the NFB website after the convention, thanks to Pete
Donahue, who volunteered his skills and equipment. Check the NFB
website, <a href="http://www.nfb.org/">www.nfb.org</a>, for more
information. <br>
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5) To contact Dick Davis, Committee Chair, during the convention, please
call 612-719-0753. The rest of the time, e-mail him at
<a href="mailto:ddavis@blindinc.org">ddavis@blindinc.org</a>,
<a href="mailto:dickblind@gmail.com">dickblind@gmail.com</a>, or call him
at 612-872-0100, Ext. 229. <br>
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