CAREER BOOK 3: 15 Career-readiness Strategies for Parents of High School Students with Special Needs (Career-readiness Series)

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What’s the most important thing you need to foster right now in your high school student with a disability?

It’s the awareness that now is the time to prepare for a future vocation.

Jim Hasse, who has athetoid cerebral palsy and served for 10 years as a Fortune 500 vice president during his 29-year career in corporate communication, has tips about how to do that with self-confidence.

He provides career-readiness tips that your youngster probably won’t pick up at school but that you can put into practice together while at home.

Time is short. And times are uncertain for state and federal assistance programs. So, now is the right time for helping your son or daughter discover the essential insights for successfully handling the challenges he or she will probably face as a job seeker with a disability.

In this 40-minute quick read, Jim, a Global Career Development Facilitator, outlines six strategies for helping your youngster grow in self-confidence and nine strategies for discovering disability’s competitive edge in today’s job market.

It’s all based on the road map recommended by National Career Development Guidelines and on Jim’s experience as a mainstream Accredited Business Communicator.

“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,” Jim writes. “My vulnerabilities have given me an edge in developing my career. Career Book 3 shows what worked for me.”

During these unusual times, helping your son or daughter as a parent see real hope by laying the groundwork for a safe and happy life through a solid vocation may turn out to be one of your most important contributions to your youngster’s future success.

Throughout this third self-help book in his five-part Career Book series, Jim offers thoughtful advice that you’ll find pertinent and practical as an “unofficial” but vital career coach for your high school youngster.

So, get up to speed as the mentor you need to be at this stage of your youngster’s development. Now is not the time for you or youngster to drop the ball.

Buy Career Book 3 so you can complete the next mile in your journey as a parent who knows how to constructively mentor your son or daughter from a “vocational prep” perspective (18,000 words).

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00KN2OF56
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hasse Communication Counseling, LLC
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 28, 2014
Edition ‏ : ‎ 4th
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3.6 MB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 98 pages
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #1,407 in Career Development Counseling #1,685 in Vocational Guidance (Books) #5,922 in Parenting Hyperactive Children & Children with Disabilities (Books)
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