Continuing with our 12 Days of APH CareerConnect theme, in keeping with the “12 Days of Christmas;” we are providing you with the tenth day. We prefer the 12 Days to Christmas, the holiday season, and the New Year. Here is our tenth day with tips and advice around getting your resumĂ© developed, polished, and … Continued
We continue the countdown of the 12 Days of APH CareerConnect, like the 12 Days of Christmas, but with our CareerConnect spin on the countdown. Here is the eleventh day of APH CareerConnect. Are you still unsure of what career is right for you? Check out these eleven popular real life stories about the professions … Continued
APH CareerConnect’s latest Our Stories piece is part of the Samuel N. Hecsh Window on the Working World of Law. Each year, a feature is done on an outstanding mentor and individual who is blind or visually impaired and working in the field of law. CareerConnect’s Our Stories section highlights the success stories of those … Continued
APH CareerConnect loves to share the accomplishments of people who are blind or visually impaired and this story is a wonderfully uncommon and individual success. Rachel Sanchez is a 16-year-old girl who became legally blind after being struck in the head by a bullet at age 5. In November, she won the United Professional Horsemen’s … Continued
If you’ve ever had a fire in your belly to do something so challenging that no one believed you could do it, you are not alone. You also know what it feels like when people tell you that you can’t do what your heart says you can. Have you given up or are you still … Continued
As a former school nurse I was very excited to see CareerConnect Mentor, Audrey Demmitt, post her story about working as a nurse with vision loss on AFB's VisionAware. Although it has been many years and a career change later, by reading Audrey’s experiences I was easily able to relive my own experiences of adjusting … Continued
Online social media is well known to help you build personal connections and relationships. But what about career building or job-seeking? Today, many human resource managers, recruiters and headhunters are looking to see if you have an internet presence and what is being said about you on the Web. If they find a negative message … Continued
In honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, we wanted to highlight some of our favorite mentor stories. Looking for success in the most unlikely places, Eric Brun-Sanglard used specific tools and descriptive methods to provide a unique story of turning one of the biggest challenges that can come our way, into possibly one of … Continued
For National Disability Employment Awareness Month, we felt it was time to present to you a story about our good friends from West Virginia: Ed and Karen McDonald, long-time friends of AFB and CareerConnect. In fact, Ed is a CareerConnect mentor! They produce a popular syndicated radio show, Sidetracks, right from their West Virginia home. … Continued
Every September, we feature a new Our Stories edition as part of the Samuel N. Hecsh (SNH) Window on the Working World of Law series. In this series, CareerConnect highlights a mentor working in the field of Law to commemorate a great man and lawyer who was blind. I go back and read Samuel N. … Continued