Congratulations and tons of good wishes to both Denyece and Sila. Merry Christmas!
Barbara----- Original Message ----- From: "Allison and Chip Orange" <acorange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2009 7:26 PM Subject: [tabi] Re: employment
thank you for sharing with us Sila, and congratulations of course! My hope was that these types of posts, describing successes achieved by people who are blind, will serve as encouragement to those who are still struggling with employment. It is possible; it can be done! Chip -----Original Message-----From: tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On BehalfOf Sila Miller Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2009 7:13 PM To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [tabi] Re: employment Hello All, In playing catch up, I came across Chip's message. Back in the fall I applied for a job with the Department of Revenue. As many of you know, I already work for them so already have some Child Support Enforcement knowledge. Any way, I was granted something called a Skills VerificationTest (SVT.) I was allowed to take the test in my office using my WindowEyesscreen reader and CCTV. I passed and then was granted an interview. Duringthe interview I had to give a Power Point presentation. That was scary but Itell you, I wouldn't give any thing for my braille skills. I made notes regarding the key points and was able to maintain eye contact or at least look directly at my audience. Any way, to make a long story short, at theend of October I received a promotion. DOR has always been above and beyondfor me but, I know of two others with a visual disability who have applied for jobs in their call center with not much success so it's a mixed bag. I am fortunate to have some sight and I do advocate. However, there's a fine line between too much and not enough. Thanks for letting me share. Hope all have a great 2010! Sila ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allison and Chip Orange" <acorange@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 4:42 PM Subject: [tabi] employmentHi all,I've spoken with another TABI member, and she and I think it's a good ideaif any of us get a new job, or a promotion, or otherwise have any employment successes or good news, we'd like to ask each of you to be willing to mention this on TABI. We think it would give all of us locally a little boost in our confidenceand morale, and also give us the name of an employer who has shown they'rewilling to give someone who is blind a chance. so please, if you get any job-related good news, please share it with everyone here on TABI. if you know of someone else who gets the good news, and they aren't on TABI, please ask them if it's ok for you to pass along their news. thanks. Chip Check out the TABI resource web page at http://acorange.home.comcast.net/TABI to unsubscribe send a message, containing a subject line of the word unsubscribe, to tabi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx if you'd like to unsubscribe you can do so through the freelists.org web interface, or by sending an email to the address tabi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject.Check out the TABI resource web page at http://acorange.home.comcast.net/TABI and please make suggestions for new material. if you'd like to unsubscribe you can do so through the freelists.org webinterface, or by sending an email to the address tabi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith the word "unsubscribe" in the subject.Check out the TABI resource web page at http://acorange.home.comcast.net/TABIand please make suggestions for new material.if you'd like to unsubscribe you can do so through the freelists.org web interface, or by sending an email to the address tabi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject.
Check out the TABI resource web page at http://acorange.home.comcast.net/TABI and please make suggestions for new material. if you'd like to unsubscribe you can do so through the freelists.org web interface, or by sending an email to the address tabi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject.
