[rehab] Job Seeker Seminar and Employment Committee Recordings Available

[Dick Davis]

   Hi Everyone,

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 www.nfb.org.  The link is below:

*http://www.nfb.org/national-convention-highlights*<http://www.nfb.org/national-convention-highlights>

I am asking Dave Andrews to send this out to the rest of the lists so
everyone knows about it.

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.

Dick Davis, Chair
NFB Employment Committee



*NFB Job Seekers Seminar 2012*



8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.  *Welcome, Introduction, Agenda Review, and
Announcements* – Employment Committee Chair Dick Davis and others.  (This
includes job vacancy announcements - let the Chair know if you have one to
make.)



8:45 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.  *Where The Blind Work*.  A great database and
mentoring resource for blind career explorers and job seekers.  Learn how
to use it and contribute to it.  *Presenter*: Robert Leslie Newman,
President, NFB Writer’s Division and Employment Committee Member.



9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.  *Is a federal job in your future? Find out*!  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.  *Moderator*: Brenda Mosby, MA,
CRC, Vocational Specialist, Colorado Center for the Blind.  *Participants*:
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.



11:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.  *NFB** Center** Training Equals Jobs!*

Learn how NFB Center training can give you the skills, attitudes, and
self-confidence to get the job of your dreams.  *Presenters*: 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.



11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.  *Good Jobs for Everyone – Including Blind People!*
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!  *Presenters*: 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.



12:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. *Questions and Answers, Announcements*. Individual
help and information from committee members and presenters, job vacancies,
people looking for jobs.

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*NFB Employment Committee Meeting 2012*

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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.



Presentations:

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*Career Advantage for V.I.P.s and An Employment Mentoring Project for
College Students who are Legally Blind*.  Jamie O’Mally, PhD, Assistant
Research Professor, The National Research and Training Center on Blindness
and Low Vision, Mississippi State University.



*Where The Blind Work*.  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.



*NFB Training Centers Prepare Blind People for Employment*.  Pam Allen,
Executive Director, Louisiana Center for the Blind.

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*Hiring and Employment Innovations*. Kevin D. Daniel, Sr. Director of
Strategic Recruiting, Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind.



*Bookshare*.  Christine K. Jones, Education Program Manager, Bookshare - a
Benetech Initiative, www.bookshare.org



*Workforce Investment Wants You Too*!  L. Earl Woolbright, ISA Manager,
Texas Workforce Commission.



*Implementing the Evidence-Based Supported Employment Model of Vocational
Services to Those Who Have Visual Impairments*.  Suzanne Turner, BSW, MPA,
Employment Coordinator and Alexis Vinick, BA, MPN, Employment Generalist,
Cleveland Sight Center.