[Tn-talk] Job Seeker Seminar and Employment Committee Recordings Available

[Sheri Anderson]

FYI!

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From: Dick Davis <ddavis at blindinc.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:29:11 -0500
Subject: [Nfbnet-members-list] Job Seeker Seminar and Employment
Committee Recordings Available
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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 <http://www.nfb.org>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.



NFB Employment Committee Meeting 2012



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:



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.



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,
<http://www.bookshare.org/>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.