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How to Get a Job: Part II
We received some great feedback for How to Get a Job: Part I. So without further ado, onto part II! During your discussion the person you are interviewing may speculate about how a person with a disability could do the necessary work. Try to avoid this because the person probably has little or no knowledge […]
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How to Get a Job: Part I
There may be an unemployment rate of 70 percent among people with disabilities, but my observation over the years has been that some people always seem to be working while others struggle and often give up along the way. The people who are always working use some form of the process I’ve outlined in parts I and II of the following post. For them the unemployment rate is 0 percent because they have eliminated the less productive parts of the job search and concentrated their energies on those activities most likely to yield results.
By Michael Bullis Ever since I began my imersion into disability there have always been definitions. Typically they are legal definitions which become useful when you’re trying to apply for some service or another. Whether it be Social Security Disability Insurance or the employment provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, each law has unique […]
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The Halo Effect
Impression management requires that people with disabilities learn to recognize and counteract the “halo effect.” In essence, the halo effect says that people with visible disabilities are angelic creatures who, as my grandmother use to say, “wouldn’t say dirt if they had a mouth full of it.” In other words, we’re somehow above the worldly […]