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Title of the Lesson/Activity:Career Conversations Date: Thursday, November 3, 2022 Time (stated in Eastern Time) 6:00 PM (one-hour) Amount of Time: 60 minutes Description: Join the team at APH CareerConnect for our very popular Career Conversations Series. APH ConnectCenter staff and guest cohosts will welcome, introduce, and engage with working blind and low vision professionals from all backgrounds. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, Musicians, Scientists, and many others will step onto the CareerConnect stage on zoom throughout 2022. Each interview will begin with a discussion on how our featured working professional started out and ended up in their career, including how confidence, determination and self-advocacy played a role throughout their successful journey. The remainder of the hour-long session will provide an opportunity for Transition age students and curious job seekers to follow up with choice career related questions. Registered attendees including young adults, job seekers, teachers and rehabilitation professionals can engage with our guest through real time Q&A networking by practicing informational interviewing. Join us and meet Casandra (Cassie) McNabb, a professional blind Embalmer. In a funeral home, the embalmer is responsible for embalming and preparing the bodies of the deceased for funeral services as well as burials or cremations. Join us and meet and ask Casandra, what all is involved in her profession. Join CareerConversations on November 3 as we meet Casandra McNabb and learn how her blindness doesnt prevent her from working in this unique profession. To register for Career Conversations, please visit https://aphconnectcenter.org/webinars/ Instructor: Richard Rueda Instructors Title: Digital Content Manager Instructors Affiliation: APH ConnectCenter Instructor:Casandra (Cassie) McNabb Instructors Title: Embalmer Instructors Affiliation: Career |
