[acb-hsp] HELP FINDING A JOB IN HUMAN RESOURCES

Fri Jan 25 01:51:41 EST 2013

Dear Rose,

    Thank you for your thoughtful reply message on general advice
going forward in the HR field. As you know as much as I that
technology is becoming trickier and trickier by the day to keep up or
let alone know which to use. I chose the government field cause of the
eventuality to have more predictability in my accessibility life but
found them the government as not being as equal either. Now I'm left
with trying to become a Social Worker, Human Resource Worker, contact
representative, immigration woriker or whatever.

    I wish that the federal to state to local government officials
would have it mandatory on all government jobs on which softwares or
other technology are or not accessible to the blind or low vision
community. I honestly believe that the government could lead in visual
tests to determine which jobs are more suited and tested with past
technologies/teqniuqes or whatever but Vocational Rehabilitation
doesn't listen to my recommendations on this commonsense idea. Maybe
I'm an idealist but so what right? anyways, good news is that
Window-Eyes is becoming more accessible with SPSS software that is
needed in our fields whether HUman Resources or in other social
science related fields. Any otherr advice on becoming a social worker
being a political scientists? By the way, I'm a former Social work
major and mainly cause I'm part of the lgtb commmunity. Oh, I also
worked in the Small Business Administration in D.C and in the Red
Stone Arsonal base in a southern state but none of them lasted that
long.

Thanks so much,
Peter

On 1/24/13, Donna Rose <wild-rose at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Maybe you could call the people who make Window Eyes and find out whether
> Office software is accessible.  I can tell you this as a social worker,
> most
> workplaces have software that they purchase and which often is not
> accessible even to JAWS.  It is becoming more of a problem as we continue
> on
> down the road of emerging technologies.  There are lots of not very popular
> companies who advertise their software and businesses of all types who buy
> it depending on their needs.
>
> While you can't guess which packages each company uses, you can become as
> familiar with those which are accessible, such as Office,  and place them
> on
> your resume.  I use JAWS and try to stay up to date on using newer Office
> programs so I don't get left behind someday in my job.  I knew how to use
> them prior to seeking my last three jobs.  I have used Access and found it
> minimally accessible.  I have found Word and Excel to be the most
> accessible
> for me using JAWS.  Perhaps you could research companies on the web to see
> what HR software they sell and also find out which might be the most common
> so you can try and figure out if there are any access issues with the most
> popular types.  The less accessibility issues you have by the time of an
> interview the better, because you can then be more confident if you know
> you
> are well prepared.
>
> I fooled around with Window Eyes a time or two and found it very intuitive
> after using JAWS.  Maybe you should download a demo of JAWS and try it out
> to see if it would be the same for you.  The demo is free and runs in 40
> minute mode, so you can check it out.
>
>
> Go Bravely,
> Donna Rose, LMSW
>
>
> "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow
> confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all
> humanity...."--Martin Luther King, Jr.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: acb-hsp-bounces at acb.org [mailto:acb-hsp-bounces at acb.org] On Behalf Of
> Peter Wolfe
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:39 PM
> To: Discussion list for ACB human service professionals
> Subject: Re: [acb-hsp] HELP FINDING A JOB IN HUMAN RESOURCES
>
> Dear Peter,
>
>
>     Thank you for that information but that is not my number one fear
> of human resources as a job prospective in my field. I'm more worried
> about whether or not Window-Eyes is up to the job or not. Its my
> limited naive or non-naive understanding that Window-Eyes isn't up for
> the challenge of tackling database driven Access or other softwares
> akin to it. Am I or am I not correct in this assessment?
>
> On 1/24/13, Peter Altschul <paltschul at centurytel.net> wrote:
>> Hi:
>>
>> The two websites I use to look for HR jobs are
>>
>> www.shrm.org
>>
>> for jobs in the private sector and
>>
>> www.idealist.org
>>
>> for jobs in the nonprofit sector.
>>
>> I have never been able to figure out the government process; it's a
>> language
>> all its own and have never found anyone to help me navigate the USAjobs
>> process, especially the KSAs.
>>
>> You'll probably have to relocate, at least I had to relocate to find a
>> decent HR job.
>>
>> Also, bear in mind the possibility that HR skills can transfer to  other
>> fields.
>>
>> Good luck, Peter
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: acb-hsp-bounces at acb.org [mailto:acb-hsp-bounces at acb.org] On Behalf
> Of
>> Peter Wolfe
>> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 6:52 PM
>> To: acb-hsp at acb.org
>> Subject: [acb-hsp] HELP FINDING A JOB IN HUMAN RESOURCES
>>
>> Dear ACB Human Resources members,
>>
>>
>>     Can you guys share with me resources to obtain a entry level job
>> in human resources in the federal government? I recently graduated
>> with a bachelors degree cum laude from Auburn University and have had
>> it hard to find any meaningful employment in my field. I'm a clientt
>> of Vocational Rehabilitation and cannot find the right nitch for my
>> credentials especially using Window-Eyes screen reader and my
>> relatively rookie experience don't help things either. I've tried out
>> the USA Jobs site, state to federal departments, the Work-Force
>> Recruitment program and recently the Lion's World IRS training program
>> but have heard of the three year long Department of Defense in
>> contract management just am not into that sort of thing.
>>
>>     Any help with this would be greatly appreciated because I'm really
>> down and out right now. I'm extremely in need of counseling and
>> perhaps training using JAWS screen reader cause of the inherent biased
>> in the federal government towards them not Window-Eyes. I have talked
>> to my Vocational Rehabilitation counseler and had an opportunity for a
>> temporary three month long program for Social Security, etc but that
>> isn't what I'm looking for. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatlye
>> appreciated on this desperate individual known as myself!
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks and God bless,
>> Peter Q Wolfe, BA
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