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I wanted to let you all know that thanks to Peter Donahue and Will
Schwatka, downloadable MP3 recordings of the 2012 Job Seekers Seminar and
the Employment Committee Meeting, which actually turned out to be a
second seminar, are now available on
<a href="http://www.nfb.org">www.nfb.org</a>. The link is
below:<br>
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<a href="http://www.nfb.org/national-convention-highlights">
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I am asking Dave Andrews to send this out to the rest of the lists so
everyone knows about it. <br>
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Attached and below are the agendas for both meetings, so you can see the
contents of each recording. I hope this information is helpful to
you in finding a good job.<br>
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Dick Davis, Chair<br>
NFB Employment Committee<br>
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<div align="center"><b>NFB Job Seekers Seminar 2012<br><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><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><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><br>
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11:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. <u>NFB Center Training Equals
Jobs!<br><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><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 Normington, Business Specialist, Texas Workforce
Commission, Labor Market and Career Information department.<br><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><br>
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<b>NFB Employment Committee Meeting 2012<br><br>
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</i></b>Note: there were some presentations we squeezed in that were not
on the agenda. There are also a number of job announcements that
came up during the meeting, so the following is not a complete
list. <br><br>
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Presentations:<br><br>
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<u>Career Advantage for V.I.P.s and An Employment Mentoring Project for
College Students who are Legally Blind</u>. Jamie O’Mally, PhD,
Assistant Research Professor, The National Research and Training Center
on Blindness and Low Vision, Mississippi State University.<br><br>
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<u>Where The Blind Work</u>. A great database and mentoring
resource for blind career explorers and job seekers. Robert Leslie
Newman, President, NFB Writer’s Division and Employment Committee
Member.<br><br>
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<u>NFB Training Centers Prepare Blind People for Employment</u>.
Pam Allen, Executive Director, Louisiana Center for the Blind.<br><br>
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<u>Hiring and Employment Innovations</u>. Kevin D. Daniel, Sr. Director
of Strategic Recruiting, Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind.<br><br>
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<u>Bookshare</u>. Christine K. Jones, Education Program Manager,
Bookshare - a Benetech Initiative,
<a href="http://www.bookshare.org/">www.bookshare.org</a><br><br>
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<u>Workforce Investment Wants You Too</u>! L. Earl Woolbright, ISA
Manager, Texas Workforce Commission.<br><br>
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<u>Implementing the Evidence-Based Supported Employment Model of
Vocational Services to Those Who Have Visual Impairments</u>.
Suzanne Turner, BSW, MPA, Employment Coordinator and Alexis Vinick, BA,
MPN, Employment Generalist, Cleveland Sight Center.<br><br>
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