Career Book 5: 16 Career-readiness Strategies for Parents of New Job Finders With Special Needs - Paperback

by Jim Hasse (Author)

How Does Your Job Finder with Special Needs Describe his or her Disability to a Prospective Employer as a Strength Instead of a Weakness?

Author 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.

Book 5 in this Career Readiness series is a detailed "prep book" for young job finders with special needs who are entering the competitive job market for the first time.

It offers a comprehensive blueprint for empowering job seekers, parents and counselors 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:

• How to prepare your job finder for a job interview that focuses on qualifications instead of disability
• 10 ways your job finder can show self-confidence in dealing with a prospective employer
• 6 ways to harness disability's competitive edge for your job finder's benefit
• How to build a personal brand that helps your job finder land the right job
• How to negotiate effectively for salary and benefits
• How to evaluate a prospective employer's workplace inclusion initiatives

Author 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.

Hasse says, "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."

Let this unique and informative resource guide you on your journey, as you constructively mentor your job finder along the road to career success.

Check 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.

Author Biography

Jim 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.