You’re Hired – Job Search for the Disabled
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Kerry Obrist, the CEO and owner of More Access Solutions (http://www.moreaccesssolutions.com ), is legally blind. Her disability came upon her when she was thirty years old and it suddenly made all that she had previously studied and worked for--being a school psychologist--irrelevant. Her story and the unique issues surrounding job search (http://www.tompayne.com) for the disabled are covered in this show. This is a much-needed topic, because 1 in 5 Americans have some disability and the unemployment rate (http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsdisability.htm/)among the disabled is staggeringly high.
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