This unique and inexpensive workbook is a great handout for vocational rehabilitation and intensive services.
It covers the same job search steps as the popular Quick Job Search. However, this guide also addresses the unique issues that people with disabilities face, such as:
- Assessing challenges as well as skills.
- Determining the pros and cons of disclosing a disability in a cover letter or resume.
- Addressing the interview questions people with disabilities face, such as "How will you be able to do this job?"
This handy guide has been designed with a larger print for easy reading and uses unique resumes that fit the needs of the reader. An appendix at the back of the book includes a helpful list of websites that address disability issues.
Daniel J. Ryan is the author of Job Search Handbook for People with Disabilities and Quick Job Search for People with Disabilities. He is director of career planning and placement at the University at Buffalo, and an adjunct assistant professor of education, leadership, and policy. He has also served as an adjunct professor of counselor education, assistant dean of student services, and director of disability support services at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.
Ryan recently won the Professional Service Award from the Association on Higher Education and Disability, where he serves as the special interest coordinator on career planning issues. He has served as the network chair for disability concerns for the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. He has published numerous works on the subject of disabilities and careers/job searches in professional and consumer publications.
He holds a Ph.D. in education from the State University of New York, as well as a master's degree in counselor education and a bachelor's degree in political science, both from Canisius College.
For interview requests or questions about Ryan, contact Selena Dehne at sdehne@jist.com or (651) 215-7548.
James Michael Farr founded JIST Publishing and was a nationally recognized job search expert, multi-award winner and best-selling author of more than 20 career books, including The Quick Resume & Cover Letter Book and Getting the Job You Really Want. He passed away in December 2010.
Widely known as America’s Career Expert, Farr was an important figure in the self-directed job search movement. His passion was empowering job seekers with the knowledge and skills they needed to take control of their own job searches, so that they’d be less reliant on outplacement and vocational services and counselors to find jobs for them.
In 1981, Farr founded JIST, which has been one of the nation’s largest career publishing houses for nearly 30 years. Farr’s ground-breaking job search and career planning books have sold more than 2 million copies and dominate the career shelves of bookstores and libraries across the nation. Farr is the primary author of the Best Jobs series, Top Careers series, and The Quick Resume & Cover Letter Book.
During his lifetime, Farr received numerous awards and recognitions for his work. His books Getting the Job You Really Want, The Very Quick Job Search and Best Jobs for the 21st Century were finalists or winners of Benjamin Franklin Awards. Several videos based on Farr’s job search expertise and book content also have won prestigious Telly, Communicator, WorldFest, NY Film Festival and Videographer awards.
