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Let Your Disability Help Amplify Your Employment Success<\/p>\n
Finding a job can be a daunting endeavour. It is even harder when you must consider disclosing your disability or not. Join us to talk about strategies to amplify your employment success by building confidence, asking for what we need during the recruiting and hiring process, and learning how to engage potential employers in conversations about disability, and how beneficial you and your disability will be to the organization.<\/p>\n
Thurs, Jan 26
\n12-1:30 pm
\nOnline<\/p>\n
Register now!<\/p>\n
Biography 01\/26\/2023 – 01\/26\/2023 https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/let-your-disability-help-amplify-your-employment-success-tickets-482634411517<\/a><\/p>\n For more information, contact Tawney Gorrie at tawney.gorrie@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n 01\/26\/2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let Your Disability Help Amplify Your Employment Success Finding a job can be a daunting endeavour. It is even harder when you must consider disclosing your disability or not. Join us to talk about strategies to amplify your employment success by building confidence, asking for what we need during the recruiting and hiring process, and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":29270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","category-myufv","category-calendar","category-ufv-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29426,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269\/revisions\/29426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAlyson has been working in the field of disability for more than 30 years and is currently an associate professor at the University of the Fraser Valley teaching in a pre-employment program for people with disabilities. She has served on the board of directors for her local society for community living and several community employment committees promoting employment for people with disabilities. Alyson has a BA in Adult Education, a master’s degree in Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, and is a seasoned speaker\/consultant. She loves to tailor her speaking to the individual group needs, provide rich examples, a sprinkling of humour and always provides resources for participants to take their learning further. For more info, check out www.alysonseale.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n12:00 pm – 01:30 pm
\nOnline<\/p>\n