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Business Connections
COLLABORATING
WITH BUSINESS
CONNECTING
TO CAREERS
Over 1,000
businesses in Northern Virginia support Career and
Transition Services in providing a broad array of
experiences for students with disabilities. Students
learn job skills and work behaviors that foster
employment success through such activities as:
- Paid
Employment
- Non-paid Work Experience
- Internships
- Job Shadowing
- Tours of Business Sites
- Employer Guest Speakers
- Informational Interviews about Career Opportunities
Career and Transition Services continually accesses the advice and support of
the business community to create opportunities that
are mutually beneficial to students and the business
community by:
- Assessing labor
market needs in order to identify skill requirements
for current and future employees
- Expanding training
and employment opportunities for students
- Designing public
relations and educational activities to increase
business involvement
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The
Following employers are among the many that provided
work experiences to students in special education
in the 2008-2009 school
year:
• Pine Crest Golf
Course
• Safeway
• Comfort Suites
• Macaroni Grill
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Wayne’s Nursery
• Colin Powell Elementary School
• Dress Barn
• IHOP
• Gatehouse Café
• Inova Diabetes Center
• Sunrise Assisted Living
• The Virginian
• The Arc of Northern VA
• Claude Moore Colonial Farm
• Pohick Regional Library
• Sheraton Premiere Hotel
• Falls Church Animal Hospital
• Fort Belvoir Commissary
• American Horticultural Society
• Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
• Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority
• Hair Studio 54
• Walgreens
• Lifetime Fitness
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