The Job Developer's Handbook

One of the most practical employment books available, this forward-thinking guide walks employment specialists step by step through customized job development for people with disabilities, revealing the best ways to build a satisfying, meaningful job around a person's preferences, skills, and goals. Internationally known for their innovative, proactive job development strategies, the authors motivate readers to expand the way they think about employment opportunities and develop creative solutions.

Readers will get fresh, proven tips and ideas for every aspect of job development for youth and adults with significant support needs: * discovering who the person is and what he or she really wants * ensuring goodness of fit between employer and employee * finding-or creating-"hidden jobs" in smaller companies * empowering people through resource ownership (investing in resources that employers need) * skillfully negotiating job duties while managing conflicts that might arise * creatively maximizing benefits using social security work incentives * encouraging family support while respecting the individual as an adult To make each part of job development easier, the book arms readers with practical content they can really use: easy-to-follow, step-by-step guidelines; checklists of critical questions to answer; success stories in both urban and rural settings; and sample scenarios, dialogues, and interview questions.

Equally useful to veteran professionals and those just starting out, this compelling guidebook breathes new life into the job development process and helps readers imagine a wider world of employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

Price: $39.95

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Job Coaching Strategies: A Handbook for Supported Employment

Job Coaching is a concise, goal oriented staff development program. The manual follows the chronology of a successful job placement - from getting to know your client to maintaining employer relations.The manual features real-life examples to illustrate techniques and strategies and provides useful forms, like functional assessments and work site analysis.

Price: $49.00

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Job Search Handbook for People With Disabilities: A Complete Career Planning and Job Search Guide, 3rd Ed

This extensive handbook shows people with disabilities how to overcome obstacles they encounter when searching for employment. Readers learn how to identify their strengths, explore career options, and navigate the hidden job market. They also gain tips for writing resumes, cover letters, and other forms of job search communication, as well as guidance for performing well in interviews.

Job Search Handbook for People with Disabilities features helpful information on employment laws and the rights they provide. It teaches readers when and how to disclose disabilities to a potential employer and lends additional guidance for success on the job.

This new edition has been updated throughout to include new information on assessment instruments, social networking, and the Job Accommodation Network. It also provides new information on online resources and up-to-date job search techniques.

Price: $22.95

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The Paralegal Job Hunter's Handbook: From Internships to Employment

Written by authors with extensive experience in placing paralegal students in successful internships and permanent jobs, Internships through Employment: The Paralegal Job Hunter's Handbook is the only text in the field to focus on internships and permanent employment.

Divided into three sections: internships, finding the right permanent job, and ensuring success in the workplace this concise handbook offers:
practical information with a variety of samples including cover and thank-you letters, sample resumes, and sample job-hunting portfolio pages valuable advice not covered elsewhere, such as how to quit a job without burning bridges, how to interview by telephone, how to get around the 'no reference' rule, how to respond to online job postings, as well as realistic advice on inappropriate workplace behaviors and ethical concerns.

A readable, accessible style Bouchoux and Sullivan, both with wide-ranging practical and teaching experience, have designed this outstanding text to be useful as a coursebook as well as a handbook: Each chapter includes Web references, ethics tips, discussion questions, and sample assignments extensive appendices include job hunting resources, sample resumes, sample cover letters and other types of correspondence, and paralegal resources to help job hunters.

This book is part of a comprehensive teaching package that includes PowerPoint slides and an extensive Instructor s Manual featuring: sample syllabi
Internship Timelines: What To Do When in Your Internship Program suggestions for in-class activities and projects for each chapter answers to discussion questions and Web Work questions, advice on running a successful internship program, numerous forms to be used in an internship program, including: Letter to Law Firm to Inquire About Internship Placement, Internship Application Form, Internship Contract, Memo to Students Regarding Internship Policies, Internship Assignment Form
Internship Progress Report, Evaluation Forms to be Used by Internship Supervisors, Evaluation Forms to be Used by Student Interns, Time Sheet/Daily Log.

Price: $65.95

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The Job Description Handbook

Everything you need to define the job, step by step

Every job has a description -- and if you craft it carefully, you can use a job description for effective hiring, new employee orientation, evaluating performances, discipline and plan for future growth. But if it's poorly written (or not written at all), your company can face all sorts of problems, from low employee morale to legal troubles.

To meet your company's changing needs, The Job Description Handbook, an all-in-one resource, can help you create HR documents that provide the details of every job's duties, requirements, qualifications -- and much more.

This book, written in Nolo's signature plain-English style, will help you:

. create a good job description
. hire qualified employees
. evaluate an employee's job performance
. plan for your company's future needs
. avoid legal traps
. troubleshoot a description

The book also provides checklists, worksheets, resources, sample language and step-by-step instructions that you can use to create job descriptions that will work in the real world.

--Download forms for book at nolo.com

Price: $29.99

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The Job Developer's Handbook: Practical Tactics for Customized Employment

One of the most practical employment books available, this forward-thinking guide walks employment specialists step by step through customized job development for people with disabilities, revealing the best ways to build a satisfying, meaningful job around a person's preferences, skills, and goals. Internationally known for their innovative, proactive job development strategies, the authors motivate readers to expand the way they think about employment opportunities and develop creative solutions.

Readers will get fresh, proven tips and ideas for every aspect of job development for youth and adults with significant support needs: * discovering who the person is and what he or she really wants * ensuring goodness of fit between employer and employee * finding-or creating-"hidden jobs" in smaller companies * empowering people through resource ownership (investing in resources that employers need) * skillfully negotiating job duties while managing conflicts that might arise * creatively maximizing benefits using social security work incentives * encouraging family support while respecting the individual as an adult To make each part of job development easier, the book arms readers with practical content they can really use: easy-to-follow, step-by-step guidelines; checklists of critical questions to answer; success stories in both urban and rural settings; and sample scenarios, dialogues, and interview questions.

Equally useful to veteran professionals and those just starting out, this compelling guidebook breathes new life into the job development process and helps readers imagine a wider world of employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

Price: $39.95

Click here to buy from Amazon