October was the month of breast cancer awareness, and with him, we got the usual mix of business initiatives and viral campaigns, all superimposed fundraising and bring an important subject in the center. But amidst all the pink ribbons everywhere, is strangely light, the real people whose lives through cancer and the difficult questions, never happen to the people who could not have lived with himself forget shaken. The most important: How should I live with cancer and hand at the same time (or find) a job?
This is a question that, the vice president of programs and policy at the nonprofit organization is Rebecca Nellis Cancer and Careers is dedicated to honest and practically possible to respond. A veteran of the nonprofit world, who travels the country talking to cancer patients struggling to adjust their diagnoses with their roles as professionals. When she is aware that it is not a simple question, one size fits all answer.
"I will not say it, so that they can work by treating a solution for virtually every job and every person," Nellis said AOL work. "But I will say, the time I have, I have to bring amazing stories to be heard."
Founded Cancer and Careers in 2001 and is an organization that people who have been diagnosed with navigating the working world cancer who are in the early stages of diagnosis, treatment, or return to a normal life as a cancer survivor helps. As a career resource that offers patients much needed strategies for a variety of workplace problems, shows a diagnosis from your employer to explain the long gap in your resume.
"The diagnosis revealed a number of questions about yourself and the life of, and the work plays a very important role we meet new people and say." What are you doing? And we discovered that the answer to this question is, and we think we have learned something so deep about this person, "said Nellis." And so I think that if a person is diagnosed, as it is in the rest of your life fits a big part of the equation, and the work at the top of the list. "
Jobs now usually means with a solid understanding of the culture of your workplace, and how best with situations that deal from a cancer diagnosis. Nellis was a typical scenario: An employee of a treatment found that she was ill at work at certain times of the day, but not to live in the same hours on weekends nausea at home. It turned out that his office is located next to the cafeteria building, and the smells were exacerbated symptoms had otherwise avoided. There was enough of a switching center with another worker, in order to improve the situation.
However, sometimes the answer is not so simple. Job search in particular presents unique challenges for cancer patients who easily as just that - are in place of qualified candidates in their own right. And while many of cancer and career focuses on the skills are the same as those used by most job-seekers - nailing impress his letter to an interviewer - and to teach strategies to divert the conversation from 'a cancer diagnosis and better on the homework questions ,
"Most people do not go to an interview and talk about their annoying habits, or have diabetes," Nellis said. "These are not things that everyone in an atmosphere of the interview no one comes and says to share." I have high blood pressure, but should hire me anyway. "
In some important points, but it could be getting easier. The growing acceptance of telework teleworking is a viable option for the staff at the treatment center - although this possibility can not ask someone working behind a cash register, for example. Cancer and Careers and makes it a point to educate employers with patients and health professionals who may not have as accompany the fear that looking for a job.
Ultimately, Nellis said, there must be an honest conversation trust between patients and their employers in the accommodation, to make sense for both sides - or if you are a job seeker, a way to keep parts rents based on skills feature in a candidate. Of course it is difficult conversations - go ahead and try to get their joint office - but they are what are needed, especially if it is easy to treat cancer as a distant, abstract thing from reality to face daily for each worker.
"For some people, the work is actually wages and access to health insurance, but for many people, their identity," Nellis said. "We like to encourage people not to assume that there is a solution, but exhaust all options."
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