{"product_id":"career-book-5-16-career-readiness-strategies-for-parents-of-new-job-finders-with-special-needs-paperback","title":"Career Book 5: 16 Career-readiness Strategies for Parents of New Job Finders With Special Needs - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJim Hasse\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Does Your Job Finder with Special Needs Describe his or her Disability to a Prospective Employer as a Strength Instead of a Weakness?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Jim Hasse's answer: Develop a \"good answer\" as a reply to questions about your job finder's ability to do a job - something short and sweet that comes off naturally during job interviews.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook 5 in this \u003ci\u003eCareer Readiness\u003c\/i\u003e series is a detailed \"prep book\" for young job finders with special needs who are entering the competitive job market for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt offers a comprehensive blueprint for \u003cb\u003eempowering job seekers, parents \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003ecounselors\u003c\/b\u003e who seek to complete the final step in a long journey toward gaining meaningful employment. It is based on National Career Development Guidelines (NCDG). In this book, you will discover: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to prepare your job finder for a job interview that focuses on qualifications instead of disability\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 ways your job finder can show self-confidence in dealing with a prospective employer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6 ways to harness disability's competitive edge for your job finder's benefit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to build a personal brand that helps your job finder land the right job\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to negotiate effectively for salary and benefits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to evaluate a prospective employer's workplace inclusion initiatives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Jim Hasse, who has life-long athetoid cerebral palsy, shares the wisdom he gained as a practicing, certified Global Career Development Facilitator for six years and as a 33-year corporate executive, 10 years of which were at the vice president level for a Fortune 500 organization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHasse says, \u003ci\u003e\"My disabilities, while they have made life tougher for me to live, have also, within certain contexts, become an aggregate advantage for me in gaining meaningful employment in integrated settings. My disability has given me an edge in developing my career. Career Book 5 shows what worked for me as a job finder.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLet this unique and informative resource guide you on your journey, as you constructively mentor your job finder along the road to career success.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCheck out this entire five-book series to help your young person navigate the various stages of development along the way to fulfill his or her vocational dreams.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim Hasse, ABC, GCDF http: \/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jimhasse Jim Hasse established his own Web community business in 1994, after working 29 years for a Fortune 500 company in corporate communications. He was the firm's Vice President of Corporate communication for 10 of those years and, as its Organizational Development Officer, was in charge of developing the organization's strategic planning function and management system. He's the owner of Hasse Communication Counseling, which develops win-win direct mail fundraisers for champions of disability employment. Hasse is a Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF). He has been managing online interactive communities to generate and share career management insight for individuals who have a disability since 1997. Between 1999 and 2009, he was responsible for all the online content of eSight Careers Network, a free service of Lighthouse International (http: \/\/lighthouse.org\/), New York City. As eSight's Senior Content Developer, he wrote, assigned and edited more than 1,300 articles about disability employment issues. Between 1997 and 2001, Hasse developed tell-us-your-story.com, a now discontinued web site where people with disabilities shared their personal experience stories and which provided a launching pad for eSight Careers Network. A 1965 honors graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Journalism, Hasse is an Accredited Business Communicator (ABC) by the International Association of Business Communicators, San Francisco, CA. In 1994, he received the Cooperative Spirit Award from the Cooperative Communicators Association (CCA), a national organization for professional communications employed by cooperatives, and the Cooperative Builder Award from the Wisconsin Federation of Cooperatives, a state-wide trade association. In 1995, he received CCA's most prestigious honor, the H.E. Klinefelter Award for distinguished service in cooperative communications. Hasse is the author of 12 eBooks and paperback books about disability employment plus \"Break Out: Finding Freedom When You Don't Quite Fit The Mold\" (Quixote Press, 1996) a memoir of 51 short stories about disability awareness. His latest hardcover book is \"Perfectly Able: How to Attract and Hire Talented People with Disabilities\" (AMACOM, 2011), a disability recruitment guidebook for hiring managers which he compiled and edited for Lighthouse International, New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 98\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 13, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47510237184178,"sku":"9780692294093","price":13.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/3fbIA1LwD9780692294093.webp?v=1779645413","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/career-book-5-16-career-readiness-strategies-for-parents-of-new-job-finders-with-special-needs-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}