[Nfbnet-members-list] Job Seeker Seminar and Employment Committee Recordings Available

[Dick Davis]

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.
















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