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Call Center Industry Provides Opportunity Within Disabled Community
Customer Management IQ Podcast
CMIQ speaks with special guest, Linda J.
Walsh, Founder, President and CEO of Virtual Training Systems, a
company that develops e-learning educational programs and online job
training services to individuals with disabilities as well as their
caregivers to include disabled veterans, military families and other
economically disadvantaged Americans. Click To Listen
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Not-for-profit
Provides Americans with Unique Employment Needs the Tools to Return to
the Workforce for a Secure and Independent Future
Travelhost
and Clubhouse Living Magazines Summer 2010
In our
current economic climate, finding a job for most Americans is
difficult. For those with a disability or for our returning wounded
veterans, this can be an almost impossible task. They must deal with
repatriation issues and flexible work schedules in addition to
limitations on income based upon receiving certain disability benefits.
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Virtual
Reality becomes Real-Life
Finding
work is challenging enough today, but layer on a disabling illness like
COPD or Muscular Dystrophy and searching for work can be as daunting as
dealing with the disease itself.
Virtual
Training Systems (VTS) estimates that there are over 40M disabled
Americans many of whom are homebound but still willing and able to
work. Founded in 2008, VTS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization
providing free online job skills training and job placement assistance
to disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities and other
economically disadvantaged persons. VTS’ goal: To prepare
program participants for home-based employment opportunities. Read
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VTS
helps disabled veterans and their families train for careers
According
to the editor's desk and the US Census Bureau in August 2009, about 2.8
million veterans, or 13 percent of the total, reported having a
service-connected disability. Having a disabled service member impacts
more than the veteran, as many of these families rely solely upon the
soldier's income. Read
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Click to
watch, Changing
Lives with your at
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Knowlagent Solutions Help Non-Profit Prepare Economically Disadvantaged
Persons and Disabled Vets to Work as At-home Call Center Agents
March 5, 2010
Virtual
Training Systems™ implements Knowlagent's hiring and training
solutions to assess and train at-home workforce. Read More
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Virtual Training Systems prepares individuals with unique
employment needs as work at-home call center agents
Spring 2010
Providing
qualified candidates for at–home call center agent programs
requires effective screening and training. For this non-profit
organization which prepares disabled or economically challenged
individuals, the right tools are critical. Learn how Virtual Training
Systems (VTS) was able to serve this population using Knowlagent. Read More
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Wanted: Alphas to Work at Home
ALPHA-1-TO-ONE
Winter 2009
Free service
helps Alphas, others learn job skills to supplement their income. Many
people found out they had Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency after being
diagnosed with lung disease. Read More
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Free online training service helps disabled Alphas and others learn job
skills
for working at home on their computers
Many people
find out they have Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency after being diagnosed
with lung disease, often asthma, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease) or both. Many of those Alphas become disabled, and a number of
them have volunteered to help with a toll-free telephone information
service created by the COPD Foundation. Read More
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Taking Charge | Virtual Call Center
COPD Digest
Spring 2009
When the
C.O.P.D. Information Line was created in 2007, the COPD Foundation had
no idea its philosophy and operating model were going to be emulated.
Just a group of friends—a group that’s
growing—who wanted to volunteer to help others go through
what they’ve experienced. Read More
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Creating Job Opportunities for Our Disabled Veterans and Military
Families
Travelhost
and Clubhouse Living Magazines Spring 2009
Although we,
as citizens of a great democracy, hold a wide range of opinions on many
issues of national importance, we are united and resolute in our
support of our returning military veterans. Read
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