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Welcome to the website of the
Oregon Business Leadership Network
The
Oregon Business Leadership Network
(OBLN) provides Oregon businesses with networking opportunities,
education, and resources to effectively increase understanding and
awareness of disability issues in the workplace. Find out more about us.
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The OBLN is pleased to have
developed a strong and mutually supportive
involvement with the Oregon Business Plan. Click here
to see their
2008 Policy Playbook - be sure to see the
OBLN
profile on page 24! |
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This Month's Featured
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OCTOBER 2008
NATIONAL DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT AWARENESS MONTH
“America’s
People…
America’s Talent…
America’s Strength!” |
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Join Our 5-Minute Celebration!
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
We have pulled together a short
list of
amazing short videos and resources. Just
five minutes with any of these resources will give your internal discussion
groups, diversity teams, managers, or any colleague a valued link to
some of the year’s best thinking on disability
employment from national and local resources.
Share this
Link!
http://www.obln.org/NDEAM08_5min.htm |
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USBLN Annual Conference and
Career Fair
October 5 - 8, 2008
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Portland, Oregon
Expanding Inclusion:
The Business Strategy
GET MORE INFORMATION NOW
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Watch These
Great Online Videos |
 Look
at my Ability
- The
OBLN's terrific new video on the untapped talents of Oregonians with
disabilities!
View it Here
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 NEW!!
Comcast NewsMakers Interviews OBLN Executive Director, Lucy
Baker
Real Player or
Windows Media
Player |
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From the SEPTEMBER 2008 issue of
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Salem's
Personnel Source Connects
with High Quality Job Seekers with Disabilities -
read how OBLN's successful Live Resume event brought
this staffing agency together with talented job seekers.
OBLN
Salem Chapter's "Live Resume" a Hit with Employers and
Job Seekers - how OBLN recruits employers for Live
Resume.
Contact with Employers Boosts Job-Seekers'
Self-Confidence - how OVRS recruits job seekers for
Live Resume.
Comcast NewsMakers interview with OBLN
Executive Director, Lucy Baker - read highlights.
Career Gateway - Connecting
Employers to College Students with Disabilities - COSD
ADA Amendments Act Signed into Law -
Americans With Disabilities Act restored and
strengthened by new legislation.
USBLN
Formalizes Partnership with Office of Disability
Employment Policy
On The
OBLN Calendar:
October, 2008 - National Disability Employment
Awareness Month -
“America’s People… America’s Talent… America’s
Strength!”
October 5 - 8, 2008
- US Business Leadership Network
2008 National Conference - Portland, OR.
October 15, 2008 Disability Mentoring Day
October 21, 2008
“Making a Difference in
Disability” Award to the OBLN. To
be awarded by the Portland Mayor and City Council.
October 22, 2008 -
"CAN WE TALK?" Conversations about workplace
experiences, as shared by persons with disabilities.
October 22 & 23, 2008 - DBA Tradeshow
(Differently-Abled Business Association)
Featuring the businesses of entrepreneurs with
disabilities
More on the OBLN
Calendar of Events...
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LEAD
STORY:
Salem's
Personnel Source
Connects with High Quality Job Seekers with
Disabilities
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 "The
quality of
candidates was really quite high...
based on their qualifications and experience, I
would have readily hired any of them whether
they had a disability or not."
- Dean Craig, Branch Manager, Personnel Source,
Salem
 "Live Resume is a real and
personal event
for me...
after acquiring a disability, I thought I would never use
any of my experience
again. Someone once told
me that I was a lot of talent
to let walk out the door.
And, I know that is true for a lot of others who
have disabilities."
- Laney Fouse, Program Coordinator, OBLN
"We welcomed the idea of creating a small and
more intimate networking opportunity for them
(job seekers with disabilities) with employers.
For the businesses, it helps them to meet their
diversity recruitment goals."
- Selaina Miller, Employer
Program Coordinator, Oregon OVRS |
Now In Our Store:
Music
Within Facilitator Guide for Diversity and
Disability
 A training package
developed to use with Music Within, the major
motion picture about the life of Richard
Pimentel, as a platform and springboard to
attitudinal change. The training
package can be an effective and enjoyable way to
help audiences see people with disabilities in a
new and more favorable light.
Sale Price $195.00
$175.00 |
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Newest Additions to our Site:
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 The
Upcoming Labor Shortage
Businesses across North America are beginning to
experience a shrinking pool of qualified job applicants. This labor
shortage was predicted and we are only beginning to see its impact as
the available labor force will continue to shrink. Happily, for
proactive companies, people with disabilities represent a talented and
largely untapped labor pool.
Click Here to learn more
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Visit
our new
eStore!
Explore our selective collection of publications
and videos that support the inclusion of
people with
disabilities in the workforce.
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Now available in our store!
 Hidden
Talent: How Leading Companies
Hire, Retain, and Benefit from People with Disabilities
$36.95
Editor:
Mark L. Lengnick-Hall
Based on a
multi-year research project by a team of experts in human
resource management, economics, and communications, Hidden
Talent showcases the innovative practices of organizations
that are actively hiring, training, and retaining people with
disabilities--and thriving as a result. The authors reveal the
roots of disability discrimination, and demonstrate the
benefits, to employers and employees alike, of investing in
disabled workers, featuring in-depth case examples.
Go to the OBLN's online Store for more details...
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