IDB has helped thousands of blind and visually impaired Iowans successfully find and retain high quality jobs.
IDB provides employment services to blind and low vision Iowans who are looking for a job or want to retain or advance in their current career. The Department for the Blind believes that with the right skills and opportunities a blind people can perform nearly every job as competently and efficiently as their sighted colleagues.
Jobs Held By Blind and Visually Impaired Iowans
The Department helped blind and low vision Iowans find or keep these jobs in 2015:
- Academic Skills Instructor
- Assembler
- B&B Owner/Operator
- Bakery Assistant/Clerk
- BEP Business Manager
- Blindness Consultant
- Bookkeeper
- Cafe Owner/Operator
- Career exploration - transition
- Cashier
- Cashier; job retention
- Chief Executive/Job Retention
- Child Care Owner
- Child Care Worker
- Childcare Worker
- Community and Social Services Specialist
- Community Coordinator
- Computer Programmers
- Construction Worker
- Contracting Specialist
- Courier and Messengers
- Courtesy Clerk
- Crew Member-Job Retention
- Curator
- Customer Service
- Customer Service Rep
- Customer Service Representative
- Direct Support Professional
- Director of RSVP
- Dishwasher
- Electrician/Job Retention
- ESL Teacher
- Examiner
- Farm & Ranch Manager
- Farmer-Job Retention
- Farmworkers, Farm
- Fast Food Worker
- Financial Counselor
- Financial Planner
- Floor Assoicate-Job Retention
- Food Preparation Worker
- Food Service Worker
- Furniture Sales
- Geriatrics Occupational Therapists
- Graphic Designer
- Graphics Designer
- Homemaker
- Housekeeping Cleaner
- Human Resource Assistant-Job Retention
- Independent Contractor-Job Retention
- Industrial Production Manager
- iPad Application Developer
- IT Project Manager
- Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeepi
- Kitchen Attendant
- Laborer
- Laborer-General
- Laborers & Freight, Stock & Material Movers, Hand
- Laundry Worker
- Lawn Service Worker/Job Retention
- Lawyer
- Legal Assistant
- Line Chef
- Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Sp
- Maintenance Repair Business Owner
- Maintenance Worker
- Marketing Consultant/Independent Contractor
- Meat Packer
- Medical Intuition
- Medical Records Technician
- Medical Transcriptionist-Job Retention
- Member Services Representative
- Mental Health Counselor
- Merchant Services Consultant
- Morning Stock Person
- Music Instructor
- Network and Computer Systems Administrator
- Nurse Administrator
- Office Administrator
- Personal Financial Advisor
- Powerline Installer
- Product Processor - Job Retention
- Program Planner II / Management Analyst
- Radio Sound Engineer
- Recruiter Assistant/ Supported Employment
- Registered Nurse
- Rehabilitation Counselor
- Repair Worker
- Research Assistant
- Restaurant owner/cook
- Retail Stocker/Custodian
- Retention: Assistant Project Coordinator
- Retention: Production Technician
- Retention: Property Owner/Manager
- Sales Associate
- School Counselor
- SCL Worker
- Secondary Education-English Teacher
- Shelf Stocker
- Social Worker
- Spanish/English Interpreter / Job Retention
- Stock Clerk
- Stock Clerk- Stockroom
- Stocker
- Store Manager
- Teacher
- Technical Analyst
- Telemarketer
- Telemarketer / Job Retention
- Tele-Recruiter
- Training & Development Specialist
- VIST Coordinator
- Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor