Employment Information Page
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Click on the links below to go directly to various resources and employment opportunities for the blind:
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Bowling Green Daily News Employment Ads
Employment related ads in the Bowling Green Daily News newspaper (Note: some ads require the Adobe Reader to read PDF files. You should have The latest version of the Adobe reader for best results, especially if you are using a screen reader such as JFW)
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AFB Expands Online Resources to Promote Employment
Opportunities
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Job openings for the entire state of KY government.
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eSight Careers Network
is an excellent job search resource, including job
listings.
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JOB CONNECTION OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND:
Nationwide job announcements received are listed in the ACB Job Bank under a variety of categories. When available, a link is provided which will take you directly to an employer's website.
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National Business & Disability Council
and click on "Job Seekers" or call 1-800-839-6163.
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Social Security Commission: Employment Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities
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American Printing House for the Blind Job openings
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Federal Employment of People with Disabilities
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IBM Project Able Recruiting Program for People with
Disabilities: Millie Desbiens, Project Manager
914-765-5497 or Yvette Thompson, IBM Staffing Contact at
919-850-7871.
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Blind Industries and Services of Maryland is seeking
career oriented blind people to work from their homes
as professional personnel recruiters, sometimes called
headhunters. We will provide training and administrative
support as well as the costs of telephone, travel if
necessary, and specialized software unique to the
recruiting business. For a more complete packet, or to
be placed on an email list for updates, contact Michael
Bullis at: 410-737-2604.
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Jobline: instantly available on the telephone 24 hours a
day to provide all job announcements in a high-quality
synthetic speech format. It provides callers with the
ability to search America's Job Bank and allows job
seekers to create and store on the system personal
job-search profiles for use in quickly locating
vacancies for which they are qualified. Call
1-800-414-5748 FREE
OTHER EMPLOYMENT RESOURCES
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An excellent source for finding legitimate work from
home and telecommuting type jobs is Flex Jobs; go to
their website here:
http://www.flexjobs.com
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Click on the title of this article to read a treatise
discussing telecommuting job opportunities and cautions
written by Dr. Ronald E. Milliman, President of the
SCKCB, titled:
"A Telecommuting Job Could Be Just What You Are Looking For"
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A Book Published By Blindskills, Inc. In this world of
fast-paced career changes and job insecurity, blind and
visually impaired people need the latest tools and
information to succeed in the job market. &Job Hunting
Resources for People with Vision Impairments& is the
definitive contemporary career guide for blind and
visually impaired people because it focuses on topics
other career books do not address. Not only does it
include information on interviewing techniques in a
post-ADA world and pointers on resume and cover letter
writing, it also places emphasis on social and
communications skills as they apply to visually impaired
job hunters. The book is available for $10 per copy in
large print, cassette, and computer diskette. The
computer diskette edition includes Braille ready files
for those who wish to emboss all or part of the book on
their Braille embosser. The disk also includes an
Internet directory that contains the entire book in HTML
files. A Braille resource list is available on request
for those who purchase the book. For full details,
including ordering information, go to:
Blindskills.com or
Contact Blindskills, Inc., toll free, 800 860-4224 FREE
or 503-581-4224; Fax, 503-581-0178. Make checks and
money orders payable to Blindskills, Inc. and send to
P.O. Box 5181, Salem, OR 97304-0181. Blindskills also
accepts Master Card and Visa credit cards.
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