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We're still in a competitive job market, especially for recent college graduates. This means networking is a critical step to landing a job. Via Thomas Faltin, Steven Allen 
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We're still in a competitive job market, especially for recent college graduates. This means networking is a critical step to landing a job. Via Thomas Faltin
Steven Allen's insight:
Throughout your career, networking makes a difference.
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Disability discrimination is prohibited in most workplaces in the United States, including the State of California. Under various federal and state statutes and laws, subjecting an employee to any adverse ... Via Wayne Morrise
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Know the law. Information is Empowering.
Wayne Morrise's curator insight,
September 6, 2013 11:48 PM
Federal anti-disability discrimination laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), as well as the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), all provide certain provisions that would prevent covered employers from subjecting their employees with various medical conditions to wrongful termination or any adverse employment decision.
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College students with disabilities across the United States are likely to benefit from a settlement signed this week by the University of California at Berkeley. The university will do more to make homework and research material accessible to students with visual and learning disabilities, an effort that may provide a model for disability rights advocates and university officials elsewhere.
Via Lou Salza
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Berkeley consistantly leads the way in the disablity rights movement.
Lou Salza's curator insight,
June 6, 2013 5:02 AM
Excerpt:"...The 18-page out-of-court settlement with Disability Rights Advocates now binds Berkeley to make library materials accessible and to increase the staff and turnaround time within its disabled students program, which has been overwhelmed with requests for reading material in alternative formats.
Because the policy was negotiated and settled out of court, the Berkeley agreement does not set a binding legal standard for anyone else. Nonetheless, people who work with students with disabilities called the Berkeley policy, which takes effect this fall, a significant development. “It’s very well-written and the issues that it identifies have been thematically recurrent issues at a lot of universities and through lower-level complaints through the Office for Civil Rights out of the Department of Education – so, as a model, it is significant and people should pay attention to it,” said L. Scott Lissner, president of the national Association on Higher Education and Disability and ADA coordinator at Ohio State University...."
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People know that the economy isn’t doing so well and that it’s hard to get a job you enjoy. You need to learn all you can about job hunting to improve your chances of getting hired. Via Thomas Faltin
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Throughout your career, networking makes a difference.