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Perfectly Able : How to Attract and Hire Talented People with Disabilities.
Title:
Perfectly Able : How to Attract and Hire Talented People with Disabilities.
Author:
International, Lighthouse.
ISBN:
9780814415658
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (229 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword: Roads More Easily Traveled -- Preface: An Opportunity-Not a Responsibility -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Gain a Better Awareness of Disability -- How Inclusive Recruiting Will Help You Prepare for Coming Changes in the Employment Landscape -- Why Your Diversity Initiative Needs to Include Disability -- How to Choose the Right Disability Awareness Trainer for Your Company -- The Right to Self-Determination for Individuals with a Disability in Today's Workplace -- How Individuals with a Disability Define Inclusion -- The Role of Maturity and Self-Esteem in an Individual's Approach to Disability -- How Learning to Live Well with a Disability Can Have an Upside -- Chapter 2: Foster a Company Culture That Is Receptive to Disability -- Put Your Diversity Values into Practice -- Create a Work Environment That Values Diversity -- Workplace Interdependence Makes Disability Irrelevant -- Bridge Builders Can Be Valuable to Your Corporate Culture -- Job Seekers with a Disability Can Add Elasticity to Your Workforce -- How You'll Know Your Inclusion Efforts Are Working -- Chapter 3: Make Your Recruiting Efforts Disability Inclusive -- Frequently Asked Questions About Hiring Employees with Disabilities -- What You as an Employer Need to Know About Current Interpretations of the ADA -- Considering Volunteer Experience May Be Essential in Fully Evaluating a Job Candidate -- Not All Volunteer Work Is the Same When Evaluating a Job Candidate -- How to Locate Job Candidates with Disabilities on the Local Level -- Using Job Fairs to Recruit Candidates with a Disability -- Locating Job Candidates with Disabilities Online -- Recruiting Qualified Job Candidates with Disabilities on College Campuses -- How to Make Your Screening Process Inclusive.

Four Barriers Job Candidates with a Disability Encounter When They Interview for a Job -- Chapter 4: Identify Job Candidates Who Will Thrive in Your Corporate Culture -- Job Candidates Who Approach Employment from an Entrepreneurial Perspective -- Job Seekers Who Are Successfully Operating Small Businesses -- People Who Have Moved Beyond Self-Absorption to Become Fully Engaged Members of Society -- Individuals Who Take Personal Responsibility When They Become "Easy Marks" While at Work -- How to Identify Individuals with Emotional Intelligence -- Job Candidates Who Can Gracefully Accept and Decline Help -- Individuals Who Can Carry Their Load as Members of Your Team -- Job Seekers Who Possess the Authenticity Valued in the Business World -- Targeting Candidates Who Are Willing to Take Reasonable Risks -- Chapter 5: Approach People Management from a Disability Perspective -- How Self-Esteem Affects Workplace Performance and Behavior -- Avoiding Paternalism in the Workplace -- Assigning a Mentor for Your Newly Hired Employee with a Disability -- Using Your Leadership to Help an Employee with a Disability Grow in His Job -- Removing Intentional and Unintentional Barriers to Achievement for Employees with a Disability -- Adaptive Technology Is Making Major Forms of Disability Irrelevant in the Workplace -- FAQ: Guidelines on Reasonable Accommodations for Employees with Disabilities Under the ADA -- Accommodations for Adaptive Technology: Who Should Pay for What Under What Circumstances -- When a Worker with a Disability Tries to Put One Over on You -- FAQ: Guidelines on Confidentiality for Employees with Disabilities Under the ADA -- How to Prevent a Disability Discrimination Lawsuit -- Curtis Bryan and Randy Hammer Make Blindness Irrelevant in Serving Customers -- Appendix A: Comprehensive Resource List for Hiring People with Disabilities.

Appendix B: About eSight Careers Network -- Appendix C: eSight Careers Network Article Links -- Index.
Abstract:
An inspiring, practical guide for incorporating disability into any organization's diversity program.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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