Another Employment Resource

[Mike Weins]

This site is a part of Monster.com and is designed to match up disabled persons with jobs. Registration is free, and creation/publication of your resume is free.

Hireds.com

Click the 'Job seekers' link at the bottom to register and build a resume

[moonshadow576]

Well friend, thanks for the link, but the duty to accommodate disabled workers is expanding. Last October, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals required employers to use the interactive process for finding reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This February, the Court held that the interactive process extends beyond first attempted accommodations, and continues when workers request different accommodations, or employers learn that initial accommodations are failing.

[anantharao]

Get Trained In New Skills
Which Will Offer Immediate Employment.
Thanks

[scipilot]

Get Trained In New Skills
Which Will Offer Immediate Employment.

I'm new here so please excuse me disagreeing so early on I really dont think we should be giving the message that if you 'Get Trained In New Skills' you will get 'Immediate employment' this is simply not the case and i'd hate to think anybody thought it would be that simple!

It will of course help your chances but will NOT guarantee Immediate employment.

[gloria]

I used to be a special features editor for a local newspaper and then I had a brain tumor. They couldn't operate because it was calcified. I was in bed most of the time and cashed in my savings as I am single parent to two kids. I eventually sold my house. In 2005 they did a craniotomy. I had a caverous hemangioma and blood vessel burst. It took a year or so to recover and for my hair to grow back etc. Then I had to move from my rental house. Now my 24 year old daughter is helping to support me. I did get a part-time assistant job isn special ed for a local school district, but I make very little. I need a real job because there is no one else to support me. At the time of my divorce (not really my choice--long story) I wasn' given alimony due to having an advanced degree.

Anyway, I have applied for a lot of jobs in the last 10 months and had job interviews and received some positive feedback but haven't had any offers. The rejection is awful as I am more sensitive these days anyway! But the reason i think is my credit check and they may know or suspect a medical problems since there's a huge gap in my work history which is always brought up. But then again, I have been called in for interviews. I just wish I could explain what really happened instead of making up things--staying home with my kids etc. which may raise questions itself since they were in high school at the time.

I have called Lance Armstrong, CancerCare, you name it. I went to the Voc-Rehab Department and they only kind of support your job search with resume help etc., which I don't need. I have shocked there are no resources or programs that mentor people with disabilities back into the work force in jobs that can sustain them, including the high cost of supplemental insurance, drug coverage etc., exclusions and copays which takes over half of my social security check.

So does anyone know of any place that for some miraculous reason, recruits or mentors or seeks disabled professionals? If you have any ideas, I am open to each and every one of them. Thank you!
Love
Gloria

[Bobbi]

Gloria,

I don't know whether you may have come across this in searching:

http://www.nticentral.org/

[roel88]

Hi Gloria!i hope you're fine now.I have been a virtual assistant for almost a year now and this has been the best job ever, just google online marketing and am sure you'll get pretty good links.

[houghchrst]

Just a bump