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How do you find a job when the odds are against you?
By interviewing for information as suggested by Richard Nelson Bolles, jobseekers can work around challenges that can bring about discrimination by hiring officials.
The talk will cover;
*Handing Rejection Shock
*Overcoming Internal and External oppression
*The Numbers Game (applying for openings) and How it Works Against Us
*Creative Job Hunting
*Finding Your Sellable Strengths
*Researching Organizations
*Finding the Person Who Has the Power to Hire You
*Persuading them to Create A Job for You
Dale will also tell her own story – how she found a job at the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities using informational interviewing and how she persuaded Bolles to write a book with her.
Dale Brown is a nationally known disability employment specialist, author, speaker and strategic leadership consultant. She coauthored one of her books, Job-Hunting for the So-Called Handicapped or People who have Disabilities, with Richard Nelson Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute? Dale worked for the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities and the Office of Disability Employment Policy, Department of Labor.
She works as a disability policy consultant and recently completed a project with Veterans Staffing Network, Easter Seal developing organizational infrastructure to serve wounded warriors. She has spoken at over 1,000 national, state and local conferences and symposia on disability issues.
40Plus of Greater Washington Empowering Experienced Professionals for Successful Career Transitions