Career Expo: From College to Blindness Training and Not Living Within 10 Minutes From Home, Meet Teacher of the Blind and Visually Impaired, Beth McGarr.

Full Transcript Show Summary: State Services for the Blind hosted a Career Expo for high school and college students who are blind, low vision, or DeafBlind. The event took place on Saturday, April 27. Throughout the Expo students had the opportunity to: Connect with adults with a vision loss from a variety of professions and careers.Hear from college representatives about what college is like.Learn why diversity matters from an employer’s...

Career Expo: Self Advocacy and Self Determination Led Matt To His Current Job, and a Big Skill He Added Was Saying, “Ok, I Need Help with This”

Full Transcript Show Summary: State Services for the Blind hosted a Career Expo for high school and college students who are blind, low vision, or DeafBlind. The event took place on Saturday, April 27. Throughout the Expo students had the opportunity to: Connect with adults with a vision loss from a variety of professions and careers.Hear from college representatives about what college is like.Learn why diversity matters from an employer’s...

Career Expo: Switching Her College Major Landed Her in Court! Meet Official Court Reporter Kayde Rieken

Full Transcript Show Summary: State Services for the Blind hosted a Career Expo for high school and college students who are blind, low vision, or DeafBlind. The event took place on Saturday, April 27. Throughout the Expo students had the opportunity to: Connect with adults with a vision loss from a variety of professions and careers.Hear from college representatives about what college is like.Learn why diversity matters from an employer’s...

Career Expo: Assisting People with Disabilities for 22 Years to Find and Keep Employment – Meet Employment Specialist Walter Waranka

Full Transcript Show Summary: State Services for the Blind hosted a Career Expo for high school and college students who are blind, low vision, or DeafBlind. The event took place on Saturday, April 27. Throughout the Expo students had the opportunity to: Connect with adults with a vision loss from a variety of professions and careers.Hear from college representatives about what college is like.Learn why diversity matters from an employer’s...

Career Expo: From Homeless, to Training, to Employment and Working on His Degree – Meet Bobby Binns

Full Transcript Show Summary: State Services for the Blind hosted a Career Expo for high school and college students who are blind, low vision, or DeafBlind. The event took place on Saturday, April 27. Throughout the Expo students had the opportunity to: Connect with adults with a vision loss from a variety of professions and careers.Hear from college representatives about what college is like.Learn why diversity matters from an employer’s...

Partnering with VR: All About the First Steps. A Blog Posts by Serina Gilbert

Starting your partnership with Vocational Rehabilitation is highly individualized and will look different for every single person.  With that said, however, there are general procedures and timelines to keep in mind when preparing for your very first meeting with Vocational Rehabilitation. The first step towards receiving services with Vocational Rehabilitation is attending your Intake appointment. This appointment is a time for you...

Job Insights: NCSAB Keynote Speaker Paul Schroeder – It’s Got to Come From the Heart If You Want it to Work

Full Transcript Show Summary: NCSAB Keynote speaker: Paul Schroeder, Director, Public Policy & Strategic Alliances at Aira Tech Corporation,and spent over 22 years at American Foundation for the Blindin charge of Programs and Policy and Government Relations and more. Paul was asked to speak before the National Council of State Agencies for the Blind in Washington D.C. Paul spoke about his schooling, his training challenges...

White Cane Coffee: Providing Great Coffee to our Customers and Providing Sustaining Jobs for People with Disabilities – A Job Insights Spotlight

Full Transcript Show Summary: Serina Gilbert is always coming across great stories and this one from Erin and Bob at White Cane Coffee is as good as it gets. Taking a Bad Day and transferring that into the launching of a new company, Erin and Bob, a daughter and son team, tell us why they wanted to start White Cane Coffee and how they want to impact others with the opportunity through the affiliate program coming soon. You can check out the...

JobInsights: Reasonable Accommodations in the Workplace

Show Summary: Welcome to Job Insights with Serina Gilbert and Jeff Thompson. We focus on Employment, . We focus on Employment, Careers, enhancing opportunities and bringing you  the latest innovations from across the Vocational Rehabilitation field to ensure your choices lead you down the career pathway that you want and succeed in gainful employment. From getting started with services, to assessments, Individual Plan for Employment (IPE)...

Job Insights: Smart Networking 101- Don’t Be Surprised Who is Checking Out Your Virtual Résumé (transcript provided)

Full Transcript Show Summary: Welcome to Job Insights with Serina Gilbert and Jeff Thompson. We focus on Employment, Careers, enhancing opportunities and bringing you  the latest innovations from across the Vocational  Rehabilitation field to ensure your choices lead you down the career pathway that you want and succeed in gainful employment. From getting started with services, to assessments, Individual Plan for Employment...