Swimming in the Mainstream

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January 10, 2006

You’re Helping to Increase Awareness of Disability Employment Issues

Congratulations!

You’ve just completed a series of 12 "Swimming in the Mainstream" (SiM) blog discussions during calendar 2005 in which you’ve joined an average of more than 600 eSight members each month either through direct comment in writing or in non-written affirmation/disagreement.

The results?

By recounting your personal experiences in response to the various discussion topics during the year, you have collectively painted a collage of yourselves -- a picture not many people who are not involved in disability groups get to see.

The 12 insight articles which summarize your insight about each topic through direct quotes show you are:

· Adult, authentic, mobile and confident;
· Solution and inclusion oriented;
· Emotionally intelligent, technologically savvy and myth resistant.

Through monthly e-mail press releases, eSight has publicized each of these articles widely among 3,000 selected employers, career counselors and other individuals who are interested in disability employment issues. So, your observations have also reached the right people from the perspective of raising awareness about "what it’s really like" to build a career when you have a disability.

You can access each of the press releases at www.tabinc.org's press page.

There is also a link to each insight summary article on eSight’s login page under the heading, "Insights for Employers."

The new insight summary article for December, "Target Job Candidates With Disabilities Who Are Risk Takers," highlights the perceptions of SiM blog participants when they realized they were taking a calculated risk, as an adult, in a career-building situation.

We‘re highlighting that article in eSight’s Employer Resources section this week.

Before we repackage the 12 insight summary articles for further use in raising awareness among employers, career counselors and job seekers about disability employment issues from a real-world perspective, we would like to give you one last chance to add a thought which would help summarize the series.

Please consider this question:

What piece of advice for employers would you like to add as a cap to this series of "Swimming in the Mainstream" insights?

Posted by Jim at 05:57 PM | Comments (10)