As an individual involved in workforce development, you can register and tap into eSight Careers Network, for free. You'll have access to a step-by-step approach for helping those you counsel find employment.

You'll find that eSight Careers Network is a rich online resource for rehabilitation counselors, including career development counselors or job specialists, as well as counselors in disabled student services on college campuses and special education teachers.

As an active eSight member, you'll learn how to help others with:

• Potential career paths/ladders based on personal-experience accounts submitted by mainstream job holders with disabilities.
• Potential job search strategies which have worked well for new college graduates.
• Information about working in specific job sectors.
• Resolving issues when a person who is disabled obtains a job in the mainstream workplace.
• Addressing fears among employers about hiring someone with a disability.
• Adapting to current recruiting practices.
• Tapping a consumer's high-level and corporate-level work abilities.

By participating in eSight's forums, you'll also gain the support of other professionals who can recommend potential solutions to a specific problem one of your consumers may have.

As an additional benefit, you can take advantage of eSight's premium content, too. "Swimming in the Mainstream: Topics in Workforce Development" is an online, fee-based resource that gathers insights generated within eSight's forums about steps people with disabilities can take to advance in America's workplaces.

Specifically, "Swimming in the Mainstream: Topics in Workforce Development" content packages address such topics as:

• How to Identify and Market Your Strengths in Mainstream Job Sectors
• How to Do Company Research
• How to Network Your Way Into the Job That's Right for You
• Making Job Interviews Work Well for You
• Adaptive Technology in the Workplace
• How to Get Along Well With Your Co-workers and Boss
• Fostering Self-esteem on the Job
• Practical Money Management for Newly Employed Individuals
• Taking the Next Step Up in Your Career Ladder

Each "Swimming in the Mainstream: Topics in Workforce Development" content package goes beyond personal experience in addressing a specific disability employment issue and answers "how" (not just "what") questions.

Guest editors with expertise in workforce development contribute added value to this resource. Outside resources are also identified and evaluated.

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