Webinar: Pathways to Disability Empowerment: Naming and Claiming Your Skills

This is part of our Pathways to Disability Employment monthly webinar series.

This webinar is for job seekers who are blind, low vision, DeafBlind and blind with other disabilities.

Knowing your skills is important whether searching for your first job or making the next move on your career path. Identifying and selecting the skills to use allows a job seeker to have a more focused search.

There are many tools which guide a job seeker to find their skills. Join us as we discuss a few resources which are free and accessible.

American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreters will be available.

Presenters

Cheryl Cumings is the Workforce Development Manager at the Lighthouse. Cheryl works with Lighthouse employees who are blind, DeafBlind, blind with other disabilities to facilitate their exploration of career growth. Cheryl is a former Peace Corps Volunteer and the founder of a nonprofit that provided blind students with recreational and career exploration programs. Cheryl brings her background in community outreach, health care policy, and blindness services to her current role.

Michael Martens is a Human Resources Manager at the Lighthouse. He founded and led a courier business and worked at Skills Incorporated managing their Technical Services Division as a contracted vendor for the Microsoft Corporation – providing on-demand hardware and software testing for newly developed product lines including X-Box and Bluetooth. Michael is a Para-Olympian who uses his strengths of dedication and commitment to make the Lighthouse welcoming and fully accessible.

Register

Tuesday, August 13, 4:00 pm – 5:30 PST

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Please reach out to Workforcedevelopment@lhblind.org if you have any questions or need assistance registering for this event.