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.

Blindness and Vision Impairments in the Workplace

Website - Blindness and Vision Impairments in the Workplace

Description - The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability. Title I of the ADA makes it unlawful for any employer to discriminate against a qualified applicant or employee because of a disability in any aspect of employment. Find out more 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.

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.

My Perfect Resume

Website - My Perfect Resume

Description: My Perfect Resume takes the hassle out of resume writing. Easy prompts help you create the perfect job-worthy resume effortlessly!

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.

Unique Abilities Partner Program

Web site - Unique Abilities Partner Program

Description - The Florida Unique Abilities Partner Program recognizes businesses that are committed to providing career and financial opportunities to individuals with unique abilities and to assisting organizations that support them. Participating businesses demonstrate their dedication to strengthening communities and the economy by helping these Floridians with untapped talents become more independent and by partnering with other businesses, organizations and state resources in this endeavor.

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.

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