APH ConnectCenter and NSITE Deliver Resources and Access to Job Opportunities to Create a Diverse and Inclusive Workforce for Job Seekers
American Printing House for the Blind ConnectCenter and NSITE, have partnered to create a Job Seeker’s Toolkit. The Job Seeker’s Toolkit is an accessible, self-paced, free online training course that helps students and job seekers who are blind or low vision, develop career exploration and job-seeking skills. The course provides five, 60-minute sessions, that cover self-awareness, career exploration tools and resources, the preliminary employment process, the interview, and maintaining employment. The toolkit can be used by professionals to follow their students’ progress and provide feedback.
This collaboration between APH ConnectCenter and NSITE will help bring employment resources to a habitually underserved demographic in the way that works best for them.
“We have an entire resource library of tools for blind and low vision adults including bringing the Job Seeker’s Toolkit to those who are seeking jobs today,” notes Olaya Landa-Vialard, APH ConnectCenter Director. “Working with NSITE’s team, APH CareerConnect is able to best engage and bring the Job Seeker’s Toolkit to a larger audience and in a format for today’s learning style, whenever and wherever the candidate is in their job search.”
Blind and low vision job seekers who visit the APH ConnectCenter will find a link to the Job Seeker’s Toolkit, which will send them to NSITE U. While there, users will find multiple programs for employment preparation and a regularly updated job board.
"NSITE offers workforce training and development programs and a NSITE Connect job board specifically for blind and low vision individuals,” said Jonathan Lucus, NSITE Executive Director. “By collaborating with APH’s team and their 160+ years of providing resources to this community, we can ensure that talented people with blindness or low vision, have equal access to jobs in today’s competitive work environment.”
The new Job Seeker’s Toolkit features five, 60-minute sessions, designed to be taken in sequential order as the content builds on each prior course. However, each module can also work as a stand-alone course:
- Self-Awareness
- Career Exploration: Methods & Resources
- Finding Employment
- The Interview
- Maintaining Employment - Advancing Your Career
Click here to participate in the sessions and learn more, or go to: https://communities.nonprofitleadershipalliance.org/nsitecommunity/home
This article is made possible in part by generous funding from the James H. and Alice Teubert Charitable Trust, Huntington, West Virginia.
