GettingHired.com's Thomas Capato and Abilicorp's Neil Jacobson will advance an informative, alternate break-out affair appointed for the September USBLN® Annual Conference at the National Harbor abreast Washington, DC, absorption on avant-garde and able approaches to award able workers. Making Qualified Connections to Job Seekers with Disabilities Survey of Employer Perspectives on the Employment of People with Disabilities
-- Presenters Thomas Capato, co-founder and CEO of GettingHired.com, the better application and networking aperture for humans with disabilities on the internet, and Neil Jacobson, architect and CEO of Abilicorp, a aggregation that facilitates career opportunities for humans with disabilities by analogous their abilities with applicant needs, will abode the challenges administration face in hiring humans with disabilities, including anecdotic job requirements, award able candidates, compassionate costs of abode accommodations, and application advisers with disabilities. The session, blue-blooded "Making Qualified Connections to Job Seekers with Disabilities," will highlight some of the challenges and apropos acclaimed in ODEP's November 2008 "Survey of Employer Perspectives on the Employment of People with Disabilities" and will analyze some associated strategies and solutions while answering the afterward questions:
Where can administration acquisition a basin of able job seekers?
How can an employer analyze account providers who can action abreast able help?
What role do advisers and attorneys play in cutting and deepening access among
employers, acclimatized agents members, and advisers with disabilities?
What technologies are accessible to administration for award able job seekers?
About the Presenters:
A acclimatized controlling with added than 25 years of controlling administration and business development experience, Thomas Capato has been with GettingHired.com from the company's birth and oversees all aggregation cardinal and appropriate operations. Before abutting GettingHired.com in 2004, Capato was Senior Vice President of North America Sales for 24/7 Real Media, a accessible alignment focused on alternate media & technology solutions and accouterment best-in-class chump service. Before abutting 24/7 Real Media, Capato was Director of Strategic Accounts at CompuCom Systems.
GettingHired.com is a arch application and amusing networking aperture which is absolutely accessible to humans with disabilities. The company's mission is to actualize acceptable application advance and opportunities for humans with disabilities, while acceptable administration to accommodated their charge for a able and assorted plan force, and facilitating access a allotment of job seekers with disabilities, account providers, mentors, advancement organizations, academy and university affliction casework and career casework departments, and businesses.
Over the accomplished 35 years, Neil Jacobson has been an advocate and change abettor for the bread-and-butter development of humans with disabilities. In 1975, he co-founded the CIL Computer Training Program, a nationally accustomed training class and advance which enabled humans with cogent disabilities to become computer programmers, and served as Chair until 1994, accepting apparent added than 300 acceptance graduate, 92 percent of whom begin aggressive employment. Jacobson has served as a axle affiliate and Chair of the World Institute on Disability (WID), and he served as Vice-Chair of the President's Committee for Employment of People with Disabilities during the Clinton Administration. Before founding Abilicorp in 2008, Jacobson served as a Senior Vice President of Wells Fargo Bank, a lot of afresh in allegation of its System Automation Management and Wireless Technology Divisions, and ahead as Chief Systems Architect for the retail business.
Abilicorp's mission is to accommodate aggressive application and career opportunities to humans with disabilities by analogous their abilities with applicant needs. Abilicorp has a charge to accomplish above applicant satisfaction, focus on the success of humans with disabilities and aerate the shareholders return. To accomplish these goals, Abilicorp matches individuals with disabilities with the jobs that best advance their skills, they access able applicant affairs alone from companies they apperceive to be in acceptable continuing so as to agreement top above placements, and already individuals are placed, Abilicorp follows up with abutment services, mentoring, and a arrangement of organizations centered on convalescent the lives of humans with disabilities.
The US Business Leadership Network (USBLN®) is the civic business alignment currently apery 55 BLN affiliates in 32 states including the District of Columbia and added than 5,000 administration application a "business to business" action to advance the business acute of including humans with disabilities in the workforce. The US Business Leadership Network's 12th Annual Conference and National Career Fair will be captivated at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, MD, from September 15-18, 2009. For added advice visit: http://www.newworkforceconference.org/
For added advice on GettingHired contact:
Jim Lunny | Vice President
908-212-3617
www.GettingHired.com
For added advice on Abilicorp contact:
Bruce Potterton | Chief Operating Officer
1 (888) 766-6530
www.Abilicorp.com
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