by Belo Cipriani | Jun 18, 2014 | Adaptive Technology, Employment, Mobility/ Disability, Writing
Today on The Disability Tribune, we are excited to share a guest post written by disability journalist Robert Kingett. The paratransit driver lurches to a stop outside the Tribune Towers in downtown Chicago, but I don’t hear the driver bark my name because I am...
by Belo Cipriani | May 7, 2014 | Adaptive Technology, Americans with Disabilities Act, Belo Cipriani, Blind Technology, Employment, Writing
It was never tough for me to get a job when I was sighted. Even when I got laid-off from a start-up after the Dot Com bust, I was hired as a bartender, with no experience, at the first club I walked into with my pink slip. As a college student, I worked at a payroll...
by Belo Cipriani | Feb 19, 2014 | Americans with Disabilities Act, Belo Cipriani, Employment
As a recruiting manager staffing for clients such as Google and Apple, I was concerned about three things: experience, unemployment gaps, and the probability of the person becoming a long-term employee. I interviewed few disabled candidates and rarely considered their...