[rehab] Minnesota State Services for the Blind Jobs

[Gabe Vega Via Iphone4S]

I think SSB hit it right on the head. There is a difference between a blind person wanting to work, looking for work, and actually being qualified to do a job. That is the trouble we have when we hire for Commtech LLC is that we can't find qualified people.

Gabe Vega 
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On May 30, 2013, at 6:35 AM, Dick Davis <ddavis at blindinc.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
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> 
> Below is the link to Minnesota state government employment:
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> http://www.careers.state.mn.us/
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> I’m posting it because the director of Minnesota State Services for the
> Blind (SSB) advised me to have interested individuals post their resumes on
> it.  I understand that if you have a resume posted, you will hear of job
> openings and be able to apply for them, and SSB will hear of you too.
> That’s important because it seems that almost as soon as we hear about a
> job opening at SSB, and send it out on these listservs, it closes.  Many of
> the employees at SSB are reaching retirement age, and as a result, a number
> of jobs will come open in the future.  There are rehab counselor jobs, but
> there are going to be others, including jobs in our Senior Services Unit
> which do not require a degree in rehab counseling.  The State of Minnesota
> pays well and has good benefits.
> 
> 
> 
> SSB needs to hire more blind people.  At our recent NFB of Minnesota
> semiannual convention, one of our members who had applied for a job at SSB
> said he had learned that only seven out of SSB’s 120 employees were blind.
> There followed a discussion about ways in which SSB could do a better job
> hiring blind persons, and the NFB of Minnesota is putting increasing
> pressure on SSB to do so.   SSB staff say they would like to hire more
> blind people if they could find qualified ones.  So I think it would be
> good if lots of you went to the link and put your resumes into the system.
> 
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> 
> Thank you for your participation in this.
> 
> 
> 
> Dick Davis, Chair
> 
> NFB Employment Committee
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