eSight's NetWork News: Close Trust Gap, Advance Employment with Joint Training

Author:  eSight's NetWork News Staff

Editor's Guide to this Issue:

Climbing Out of the Box

The new content on eSight this week focuses
on how job seekers, entrepreneurs and
employers are finding new ways to create
opportunity.

Put what's new into context at http://www.esightcareers.net/index.cfm?x=329

For Job Seekers:

Peter Altschul: Close Trust Gap, Advance Employment with Joint Training

Peter Altschul, Reuters diversity coordinator,
believes advancing employment opportunities for
people who are blind needs to start with a
dialogue among prospective employees and employers.

Get together at http://www.esightcareers.net/index.cfm?x=326

Adaptive Technology in The Workplace:

Using Tax Deductions as an Adaptive Technology Funding Strategy

Here's how to obtain the major tax deductions for
adaptive technology. They may be worth pursuing for
those who earn an income and incur high medical
expenses.

Let your Uncle Sam help at http://www.esightcareers.net/index.cfm?x=325

Turning our Experiences Inside Out:

A New Dialogue Board - Getting to
Work

Check our newest discussion topic: How has
transportation to and from work affected your job
choice and career development? How are you resolving
this "getting to work" issue?

"Turning our Experiences Inside Out"
goes beyond just talking to ourselves. It's the idea
generator for a solution-focused dialogue between job
seekers with disabilities and potential employers.

"Turning our Experiences Inside Out" is
a gathering place where you, an eSight member, can
share with others your workplace experiences.

Here is a relaxed community where you come to chuckle,
complain, commend -- and learn -- because that's when
identifying the really tough issues of working with a
disability (and resolving them) begin to take shape.

But participating in "Turning our Experiences
Inside Out" gives you a unique opportunity to
go three steps beyond the typical online discussions
where participants just talk among themselves. This
"Getting to Work" dialogue board is part of eSight's
new initiative to help you:

1. Focus on your workplace experiences in a safe,
   congenial, facilitated forum about topics you help
   select.
   
   
2. Identify issues both employees and employers
   must address if we are to increase employment for
   those of us within the visually impaired and
   physically disabled communities.
   
   
3. Build the framework for holding small-group chats
   between teams of employees and employers about
   what works best in addressing those issues.
   
   

So add your thoughts to "Turning our
Experiences Inside Out:" What job seekers
really feel about key disability issues in the
workplace. It's a meeting place for helping job
seekers and potential employers understand one
another.

Here's how to join the conversation. login in to
eSight at http://www.esightcareers.net.
Then from the Main Menu select the link to Members' Hub.
Here you will find "Turning our Experiences Inside
Out". Or E-mail your thoughts directly to us
at
and we'll post them for you. Please put the words
"My experience" in the subject line.

Also -- be sure to complete this week's new
questionnaire about what topics you would like to
discuss on Turning our Experiences Inside
Out. Select Members' Hub on the Main Menu,
then Turning our Experiences Inside Out and
then eSight Questionnaire: Which issue would you like
to discuss?

Hope to hear from you soon.

Elizabeth Seger, Facilitator
Turning our Experiences Inside Out

For Entrepreneurs:

Using Your Business as a Stepping Stone to a New Career

Your small business doesn't have to be forever. It
can be a stepping stone to a higher "entry level"
in a new career and a more satisfying, secure future.

Step carefully but confidently at http://www.esightcareers.net/index.cfm?x=327

For Employers:

Sites for Locating Job Candidates With Disabilities

Here are five sites that can help you start
generating the right qualified applicants from
the disability community for the jobs you have
open.

Turn over that rock at http://www.esightcareers.net/index.cfm?x=328

Our Search for eSight Model Employers:

We Need Your Submission, Referral

Employers who successfully respond to our
questionnaire about their initiatives to recruit,
hire, accommodate and promote employees with
disabilities can now be included in an exclusive,
searchable eSight Careers Network^TM database
available to eSight members.

If you're an employer, we need your submission
so we can learn about your successful initiative
to include employees with disabilities in your
organization. If you're an employee or job
seeker, we need your referrals for employers
who have demonstrated outstanding inclusion
initiatives for employees with disabilities.

Starting in October, 2001, eSight's first anniversary,
we will feature noteworthy diversity initiatives from
the Model Employers who have completed an application.
October is also National Disability Employment
Awareness Month in the United States, and eSight will
also take that opportunity to highlight its Model
Employers.

If you're an employer, you can complete our online
application form required for consideration as an
eSight Model Employer. Access the form in eSight's
Employer Connection at: http://esight.org/index.cfm?PriorityCode=eme.
Here you will find "eSight Application Form: Are you
an eSight Model Employer?"

Job seekers and employees can submit company
nominations in e-mail directly to us at
.
Please include the word "nomination" in the subject
line of your e-mail message.

Professional Development Seminars:

Archives Offer Extensive Resources

The eSight Careers Network^TM's Professional
Development Seminars have the summer off, but you
can check the archives and listen to last winter's and
this spring's sessions (six in all) or read the
summaries on such topics as:

Alternative Career Choices and Tapping into the
Artist in All of Us

http://www.esightcareers.net/index.cfm?x=232

Breaking Down Barriers to Employment

http://www.esightcareers.net/index.cfm?x=183

How to Tap into the Hidden Job Market

http://www.esightcareers.net/index.cfm?x=148

How to Get and Have a Successful Job Interview

http://www.esightcareers.net/index.cfm?x=139

Online Job Search Tips

http://www.esightcareers.net/index.cfm?x=201

What Does an Executive and Administrative Search
Team Look for in a Job Candidate?

http://www.esightcareers.net/index.cfm?x=171

Listen to the audio files by following the "Explore
Our Professional Development Seminars" link on the
Main Menu.

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