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[mailto:WASH-AT-owner@u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of Nan Hawthorne
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 4:56 PM
To: Statewide forum on assistive-technology issues
Subject: eSight's NetWork News - When and How to File a Job
Discrimination ADA Complaint
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For your delectation!
Nan Hawthorne, Content developer
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eSight's NetWork News
Wednesday, April 17, 2002
Contents:
*1. Editor's Guide to eSight:
Talking About Your Disability
*2. Career Management Resources:
When and How to File
a Job Discrimination ADA Complaint
*3. Job Site of the Week:
Reviews of Mainstream Site: CareerShop.com
*4. Ask eSight about Self-esteem:
16 Choices for Living Consciously
*5. Ask eSight About Disability Employment:
Misconception: Blind Employees Are Slow on the Job
*6. eSight's Ticket to Work Forum:
Get Your "Ticket" Questions Answered
*7. Ask eSight About Adaptive Technology:
Kelly's Discussion Topic: Web Searching:
Here Are my Tips - What Works Best for You?
*8. Small Business Resources:
How to Achieve Success: Part 1 - Determining
Values and Setting Goals
*9. Ask eSight About Self-employment:
What Goal-setting Tips
Do You Have to Share With Us?
*10. Employer Resources:
Assessing Applicants: When to Seriously
Consider Experience From Volunteer Work
*11. How to Use eSight's Step-by-step Approach
to Assess Your Company's Inclusion Initiatives
*12. Career Word of the Week:
"Chronological vs. Functional Resume"
*13. A Comprehensive Guidebook
for Producing Accessible Reading Materials
*14. Send Job Announcements to eSight
*15. Have a Career Announcement?
It Could Be Included in This Newsletter
*16. May 1 Professional Development Seminar:
How the Ticket to Work Program Benefits You
*17. About eSight's NetWork News
Summaries:
*1. Editor's Guide to eSight:
Talking About Your Disability
There's a difference between what you have
to tell an interviewer about your disability
and what you should tell. Explore the what,
when and how issues about revealing such
information in five key eSight articles.
There is something you should know about meat
http://www.esight.org/index.cfm?x=630
*2. Career Management Resources:
When and How to Filea Job
Discrimination ADA Complaint
Do you believe an employer has discriminated
against you and violated the Title I provisions
of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
Here is what you need to do to fight for
your rights.
If you don't do it, no one will
at http://www.esight.org/index.cfm?x=626
*3. Job Site of the Week:
Reviews of Mainstream Site: CareerShop.com
CareerShop.com helps professional people to
manage their careers and hiring managers to
find candidates efficiently and cost effectively.
Shop 'til you drop
at http://www.esight.org/index.cfm?x=625
*4. Ask eSight about Self-esteem:
16 Choices for Living Consciously
Self-esteem is the reputation you have acquired
about yourself by choosing to build your self-
identity. Which of these 16 potential choices
have been most important in helping you live
consciously? Why?
I have strength to believe I can do anything
at http://www.esight.org/index.cfm?x=627
The link above will bring you to Liz Seger's
new article, "Self-esteem: Living Consciously
(Part Three)." Then add your comment or question
at the bottom of her article and select "send
mail."
*5. Ask eSight About Disability Employment:
Misconception: Blind Employees Are Slow
on the Job
That's one of the issues "kabootle" tackles
at http://www.esight.org/index.cfm?x=564, the
discussion about "Common Misconceptions Among
employers: What's the Best Way to Address
them?"
"That's generally a myth," kabootle writes.
"Blindness itself does not generally cause
slowness."
Join Nan Hawthorne, facilitator of this forum,
and vocational, career, human resources and
enterprise specialists as they tackle these
two questions: What are the most common
misconceptions among employers about job
candidates with visual impairments? What can
be done to correct those misconceptions?
Select http://www.esight.org/index.cfm?x=564
to reach Nan's introductory remarks for this
discussion. It's titled, "Common Misconceptions
Among employers: What's the Best Way to Address
them?"
You can add your thoughts to this "misconceptions"
discussion by filling out the message box
at the end of Nan's comments and selecting
"send mail."
*6. eSight's Ticket to Work Forum:
Get Your "Ticket" Questions Answered
Select http://www.esight.org/index.cfm?x=513
to reach eSight's Ticket to Work Forum
(facilitated by Dino Manalis). It's where you
can add your comment or ask your question
about the Ticket to Work program and how it
fits with your approach to career management.
Note: Go to *16. in this newsletter for
information about eSight's May 1 Professional
Development Seminar, "How Ticket to Work Benefits
You." It's another way you can get answers to
your questions about how Ticket to Work affects
your personal situation.
*7. Ask eSight About Adaptive Technology:
Kelly's Discussion Topic: Web Searching:
Here Are my Tips - What Works Best for You?
"Knowing how to effectively search the Web
can increase our productivity at work. Here
is what I have learned about Web searching,"
writes Kelly Pierce, eSight's technology
editor and facilitator of Ask eSight About
Adaptive Technology.
Here's a tip from Kelly: Check the Web search
tip page at http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/index.html.
He then asks, "What are the search strategies
that you have found most useful?"
Read Kelly's Web searching article and discussion
at http://www.esight.org/index.cfm?x=570. Then
add your own favorite search strategy by filling
out the message box at the end of the article
and selecting "send mail."
*8. Small Business Resources:
How to Achieve Success: Part 1 - Determining
Values and Setting Goals
Goal setting is an integral part of achieving
success. Examining and understanding our values
is an important first step in forming the
foundation upon which we build our business
goals.
Hit the bull's-eye
at http://www.esight.org/index.cfm?x=628
*9. Ask eSight About Self-employment:
What Goal-setting Tips Do You
Have to Share With Us?
Touch base with Curt Woolford, facilitator
of Ask eSight About Self-employment, a forum
for those who are self-employed or hope to
be some day.
Curt asks: "What goal-setting tips do you
have to share with us?"
Send Curt your comments (or questions) by
using the "Share your opinions with eSight
Careers Network" tool at the end of his new
article about determining values and setting
goals ("How to Achieve Success: Part 1 - Determining
Values and Setting Goals") at
http://www.esight.org/index.cfm?x=628.
*10. Employer Resources:
Assessing Applicants: When to Seriously
Consider Experience From Volunteer Work
It is important to know when to take volunteer
experience on a job applicant's resume seriously
to ensure that qualified job candidates with
disabilities get an even chance at your company's
openings.
Find the "live-to-work" people
at http://www.esight.org/index.cfm?x=629
*11. How to Use eSight's Step-by-step Approach
to Assess Your Company's Inclusion Initiatives
We at eSight have divided our content for
you, as an employer, into these three main
sections for including people with disabilities
into your workplace:
- Assess your inclusion initiatives
- Select strategies for including disability
in your diversity initiatives
- Choose tactics for addressing the specific
needs of employees with disabilities
To reach this three-section index on eSight,
select Employer Resources on the Main Menu.
This week, we'll tell you about the first
section (assessment). It is divided into seven
assessment steps. They are designed to give
you some perspective of where you are as an
individual as well as a company representative
in terms of disability employment issues.
We have organized the content on eSight that
is pertinent to such an assessment around
these seven steps:
A. Identifying what you have already accomplished
in your inclusion efforts (currently contains
four articles which provide you with case
studies for comparing your efforts with what
other companies are doing).
B. Putting disability into perspective (currently
17 articles to help you understand what a
visual impairment means in on-the-job situations
and assess what that would mean for your company).
C. Adopting productive attitudes (currently
two articles about philosophies which
are driving inclusion of people with
disabilities in mainstream employment
so you can assess how they fit your company's
corporate culture).
D. Developing confidence, reaching out (currently
one article about how to select the right
disability awareness trainer for your company).
E. Learning to be assertive, proactive as
an employer (currently four articles to help
you assess bottom-line reasons why your company
needs to take the initiative in hiring people
with disabilities).
F. Uncovering your governing values (currently
three articles about how hiring people with
disabilities would match your corporate
values and help you carry them out).
G. Profiling your styles (currently one article
about how to identify and effectively deal
with the range of styles not related to
disability, each with its strengths and
vulnerabilities, within your current workforce).
This "knowledge package" about assessment
currently consists of 34 articles and continues
to grow. You can continually refer back to
it as a way to broaden your understanding
of what including people with disabilities
in your workforce is all about.
*12. Career Word of the Week:
"Chronological vs. Functional Resume"
I love to toot my own horn as much as the
next egotist, but, when it comes to writing
a resume, I'm all stops and no toot. How do
I write one that will accurately represent
me and my talent, experience and skills?
Just knowing the various types of resumes
can be a challenge. So let's look at two common
contenders for "best" resume structure: chronological
and functional.
"Chronological" refers to ordering information
about your background as you experienced it
-- year by year, like a narrative. While it's
possible that an employer might want to see
how you developed your career through time,
there is a reason this type of resume is becoming
passé: It's boring.
Employers, in general, are not interested
in the story of your life. They only want
to read the speculative fiction in the chapter
about how you will be an asset to them. They
want to know what you can do -- not what you
have done.
"Functional" is about what you can do instead
of when you have done it. You list what you
have done in the past but only as a demonstration
of what you know how to do.
In the chronological resume you drone on, "This
is the high school I went to and the college
I graduated from. Then I worked here until
I left and worked at this other place for
a while. Then I got a job at that place there
... blah, blah, blah ..."
With a functional resume, you tell the employer,
"I know how to do this task -- and here are
the contexts in which I demonstrated this
skill in the past."
For all my glib dismissal of the chronological
resume, however, you may want to know that
it can be the preference of "traditional" employers
who are suspicious of candidates they think
are "hiding gaps" in a work history and are
interested in why those candidates have those
gaps.
A lot of how you decide on which type to use
depends on the industry and the job for which
you are applying. A computer industry job
may depend more on your skills, while an academic
position may rely more on the progress evidenced
in your work history. Your best bet is to
rely on mentors and networking to size up
the best choice in a resume for your job search.
Then there is the "targeted" resume... But
that's next week's word.
- Nan
*13. A Comprehensive Guidebook for
Producing Accessible Reading Materials
The American Council of the Blind (ACB) has
published a comprehensive guide for producing
reading materials in accessible formats.
ACB says the guide is designed to make it
easier, faster, and less expensive to provide
materials in braille, large print, and via
electronic media.
"A Guide to Making Documents Accessible to
People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired" was
written by Jennifer Sutton, Silver Spring,
Md. "We have covered the principle ways people
can make their materials accessible, as well
as providing guidance about which particular
formats may be most appropriate for specific
purposes," says Sutton. "Braille seems like
a ecret code to people who haven't ever needed
to use it. But braille is no more mysterious
than print, and if a person who is preparing
printed materials takes just a few simple steps
to make it easy for someone to transcribe a
document from print to braille, then it's
easy to provide accessible documents to blind
readers at the same time as similar materials are
made available in print."
ACB's guidebook can help a billing department,
conferencing service, or government agency
to sort out all the options and get the job
done easily and quickly.
A grant from AT&T allowed ACB to develop the
publication, which can be purchased, at cost
($2.50/copy) in print, large print, audio cassette,
or braille from the ACB and read online or
downloaded, free, from the organization's web
site at http://www.acb.org in print or as
a braille file for access with a device that
enables a refreshable braille display.
The guide also contains links to other blindness
organizations where readers can find additional
resources about braille, large print, audible
formats on tape and CD, and electronic and
online publishing guidance to assure accessibility.
*14. Send Job Announcements to eSight
If you know of job openings that would be
of interest to eSight members, please send
the information to Edwin Montanez, editor,
eSight's Job Alert, at MemberServices@eSightCareers.
net.
Include: company, location, job description,
qualifications, salary, closing date and contact
information.
You can subscribe to eSight's Job Alert from
eSight's Community Center by selecting the
link: "Subscribe or Unsubscribe to eSight Newsletters"
*15. Have a Career Announcement?
It Could Be Included in This Newsletter
We'll consider publishing your short announcement
about an event, book, tape, course, service,
software etc. in the career management field
on eSight's NetWork News.
Just e-mail your announcement with your name
and organization to MemberServices@eSightCareers.
net and put the word "Announcement" in the
subject line.
*16. May 1 Professional Development Seminar:
How the Ticket to Work Program Benefits You
You have an opportunity to find out first-
hand about how the Ticket to Work program
affects your personal situation on May 1, 2002.
It's our last seminar in our 2001-2002 series.
If you're in New York City, join us on Wednesday,
May 1, at The Associated Blind, Inc.'s offices
for a presentation and question-and-answer
session with Joseph Abounader from the Social
Security Administration.
At this seminar, you'll learn about the Ticket
to Work program and how you can best take
advantage of its benefits.
Please remember that, if you are unable to
attend, you can still participate. E-mail
questions sent to MemberServices@eSightCareers.net
and received on or before Monday, April
29, will be presented during the question
and answer portion of the seminar.
You can get details and register on eSight
Careers Network by going to the Main Menu
and selecting the "Register for the Next Seminar"
link.
This seminar will be recorded and will be
made available on eSight Careers Network.
Call Irene at 212-766-6800 ext. 110 for
additional information, travel directions or
if you require special accommodations.
*17. About eSight's NetWork News
Get the skinny on eSight's NetWork Newsat
http://www.esight.org/index.cfm?x=407
eSight Careers Network(tm)Where people who
are visually impairedor physically disabledbuild
resources for managing their careers.
http://www.eSightCareers.net
Copyright (c) 2002 eSight Careers Network(
tm).All rights reserved.
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