America Job Bank by Phone

First, there was NFB-NEWSLINE^®, now “America's Jobline^®.” The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the largest organization of blind people in the United States, has pioneered in developing the technology to access and search computer files with a standard touch-tone telephone.

How Does “America's Jobline^®” Work? For the user (normally someone who is looking for employment), “America's Jobline^®”

is instantly available on the telephone 24 hours a day to provide all job announcements in a high-quality synthetic speech format instead of printed text

provides all callers with the ability to search America's Job Bank

allows job seekers to create and store on the system personal job-search profiles for use in quickly locating vacancies for which they are qualified; and

allows users the option to retrieve only the new and relevant job listings posted since the last call or retrieve previously saved announcements

With “America's Jobline^®,” the user enters a search profile into the system using the standard touch-tone telephone keypad to respond to menu choices. As with the job announcement information, the menu choices are presented in a voice-output format. To try Jobline^® yourself, call 1-800-414-5748 and use this Ready Reference Guide.

persons who do not have or cannot use standard computers, who now have a convenient and easy-to-use alternative to obtain job information; and

persons who cannot see or cannot read standard video display terminals, who now have audible access