Employment
ACB Job Connection
Website - ACB Job Connection
Description - 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. Please note that ACB cannot always guarantee that a position will still be open at the time you contact the employer. We wish all job seekers the best of luck and hope this service will be of use.
Associated Blind, Inc., The
Web site - The Associated Blind, Inc.
Description - Whether you are a job seeker, a budding entrepreneur, a counselor or an employer interested in increasing the diversity of your workplace, The Associated Blind can help you meet your needs. You can find helpful resources, guides and networking opportunities here.
Entry Point
Website - Entry Point
Description - This program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) offers students with disabilities outstanding internship opportunities in science, engineering, mathematics, computer science, and some fields of business. Application and program information is available on the site.
Federal Employment of People with Disabilities
Website - Federal Employment of People with Disabilities
Description - This site provides a simple and straightforward mechanism to help Americans, with and without disabilities, better understand how to hire and retain persons with disabilities. Our target audiences are applicants and employees with disabilities, federal managers and supervisors, and human resources professionals.
Hire Potential
Website - Hire Potential
Description - HirePotential is a national consulting firm that works with corporations committed to diversity by assisting them with integrating, accommodating, retaining and employing the Untapped Workforce. The Untapped Workforce includes people with disabilities, mature workers, veterans and individuals from other niche groups and numbers over 27 million working age people. These individuals are qualified, eager, and largely untouched by traditional recruiting efforts.
How to Write a Masterpiece of a Resume
Website - How to Write a Masterpiece of a Resume
Description - This award-winning guide to resume writing will teach you to write a resume equal to one done by a top-notch professional writer. It offers examples, format choices, help writing the objective, the summary and other sections, as well as samples of excellent resume writing. Writing a great resume does not necessarily mean you should follow the rules you hear through the grapevine. It does not have to be one page or follow a specific resume format. Every resume is a one-of-a-kind marketing communication. It should be appropriate to your situation and do exactly what you want it to do. Instead of a bunch of rules and tips, we are going to cut to the chase in this brief guide and offer you the most basic principles of writing a highly effective resume.
Job Access
Web site - Job Access
Description - Set up to enable people with disabilities to enhance their professional lives by providing a dedicated system for finding employment. Registration of your resume is required before you can do any searching to see what is here.
Job Accommodation Network
Web site - Job Accommodation Network
Description - Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is a free consulting service designed to increase the employability of people with disabilities by: 1) providing individualized worksite accommodations solutions, 2) providing technical assistance regarding the ADA and other disability related legislation, and 3) educating callers about self-employment options.
National Business and Disability Council
Web site - National Business and Disability Council
Description - The NBDC is the leading national corporate resource on all issues related to the successful employment and integration of individuals with disabilities into America's workforce. They offer a nice job lead database and a free resume database open to all college graduates with disabilities. This database is then made available to their members.
National Industries for the Blind
Web site - National Industries for the Blind
Description - Our mission at National Industries for the Blind is to enhance the opportunities for economic and personal independence of people who are blind primarily through creating, sustaining and improving employment.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Web site - Occupational Outlook Handbook
Description - The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. If you are looking for critical information about possible career fields, the Occupational Outlook Handbook On Line and the Occupational Outlook Handbook, published by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, holds a plethora of information about a large number of occupations.
RecruitAbility
Web site - RecruitAbility
Description - RecruitABILITY is a free resource for both individuals and corporations. You can post resumes, job positions and search for resumes or jobs! RecruitABILITY now offers batch resume posting and batch job posting. If you are a company who wants to do batch job posting, or a Vocational Rehabilitation Councelor who wants to do batch resume posting, e-mail RecuritAbility at disabledpersons@aol.com for instructions or call them at (760) 420-1269.
Riley Guide, The
Website - Riley Guide, The
Description - The Riley Guide is a directory of employment and career information sources and services on the Internet. It is primarily intended to provide instruction for job seekers on how to use the Internet to their best advantage, but recruiters and other career service industry professional will find information here to help them also. The Riley Guide introduces you to the online job search, listing many online sites and services that are useful for your job search. We do not post jobs nor resumes but instead point you to the places that do.
USA Jobs
Website - USA Jobs
Description - Explore the 17,247 federal jobs in the USAJOBS database. Create and store a resume for applying to federal jobs. Forget what you have heard about the complexities in finding a federal job. We have made the process simple! Your job search for federal career opportunities is now a just a three step process.