[Jobs] Old JOB Seminar Recordings

[Everett Gavel]

Hello Peter, and all,

Peter, I can't help you, I don't have any of those
recordings.  But I think it'd be a great thing to have
them all lined up on a page on the main NFB site at
www.nfb.org.

You are correct in that there would still be useful
input on finding a job and a career.  I like this idea.
But rather than for your own personal collection, how
about on some public page, all in one place, for future
reference?  Someone could even go through each one and
give a short list of points to be learned from each
one.  That would be a useful resource.  I'd even be
willing to put such lists together, to help, if someone
had all the recordings.


Great Idea!
Everett
www.everettgavel.com


----- Original Message ----- 
> As one who likes to collect recordings of past NFB
Conventions and other
> federation activities I thought I would put out some
feelers in an effort to
> locate recordings of the old Job Opportunities for
the Blind, (JOB)
> Seminars. Prior to 1998 the NFB's Job Opportunities
for the Blind was
> operated as a joint project of the National
Federation of the Blind and the
> U.S. Department of Labor. From 1980 to 1998 an annual
JOB Seminar took place
> immediately following, or prior to the start of the
NFB Convention.
> Recordings of these seminars were regularly produced
and distributed free to
> JOB Applicants.
>
>      I know for a fact that I have at least two of
these the 1980 and the
> 1989 JOB Seminars. The 1989 JOB Seminar was hosted
jointly by JOB and the
> National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
and was themed, (Butcher,
> Baker, Candlestick Maker.)I may have others lying
around here, but need to,
> "Clean out our spare room clausitt  in hopes of
finding them.If anyone has
> recordings of these seminars they want to get rid of,
or who is willing to
> make me a copy I'd love to hear from you in an
attempt to rebuild my
> collection of these great seminars. Although career
strategies have changed
> somewhat, and much of the technology we now have
didn't exist back then I
> believe these recordings still contain valuable job
hunting tips along with
> numerous profiles of successful blind individuals. I
think that many of
> today's blind youth would be surprised that even
without the kind of
> technology we now have blind people were employed in
STEM Fields and in
> other positions then assumed to be undoable by a
blind person. To my
> knowledge as far back as 1986 blind people were
working as court reporters,
> airline reservations representatives and even farther
back in the 1960s and
> the 1970s the blind were employed as telephone
operators, engineers, and in
> the sciences.
>
>     Here's hoping some of you may have some of these
recordings and can help
> me rebuild my collection. Thanks for your help.
>