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March 29, 2005

Summary for March: Unique Confidence-building Experiences

I appreciate all the interesting insights you’ve posted on eSight’s "Swimming in the Mainstream" (SiM) blog during March about how to develop self-confidence for obtaining mainstream employment when you have a disability.

I've selected some snippets from that conversation to illustrate eight qualities I believe would help me as a job interviewer identify job candidates with a disability who could help extend my company's success.

"‘Swimming in the Mainstream’ Insight: Unique Confidence-building Experiences" details those eight qualities.

This new article in eSight’s Employer Resources section illustrates three benefits you gain by joining the discussion on eSight’s SiM blog.

Benefit one: By sharing your experiences with others on eSight’s SiM blog, you grow personally and help other eSight members find meaningful work.

Benefit two: Through eSight’s online collaboration, you generate insights which can be transformed into resources, such as this week’s featured article, for helping prospective employers expand their perceptions about the potential they can find in job candidates who happen to be disabled.

Benefit three: As an eSight SiM blog participant, you can fully tap the Internet for showcasing your career accomplishments in a rapidly growing network which includes prospective employers in the U.S. as well as across the globe.

Note that this week’s featured article includes links to the offering statements of the eSight SiM blog participants it quotes.

To increase an awareness among employers about disability employment issues and facilitate networking between prospective job candidates and prospective employers, we will e-mail this week’s featured article to our extensive outreach e-mail list, which includes a wide range of employers.

You can also gain immediate visibility for yourself under this ongoing eSight networking initiative by submitting a two-sentence "offering statement" which describes what you can do for a potential employer.

Read the "offering statements" others have posted.

Posted by Jim at March 29, 2005 06:40 PM

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