Career Book 2: 16 Career-readiness Strategies for Parents of Middle School Students With Special Needs

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.