Employment expert Barbara Bissonnette provides strategies that professionals and parents need to guide individuals with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) to manageable jobs, and keep them employed. Career counselors and coaches, vocational rehabilitation specialists, other professionals, and parents are often unsure of how to assist people with Asperger's Syndrome. Traditional career assessments and protocols do not match their unique needs. In this practical book, readers will gain insight into how people with Asperger's Syndrome think and the common employment challenges they face. It explains how to build rapport and trust, facilitate better job matches, improve interpersonal communication and executive function skills, and encourage flexible-thinking and problem-solving. With tried-and-tested advice, assessment tools, and in-depth profiles of actual coaching clients and innovative companies that are utilizing the specialized skills of people with Asperger's, this book shows the way to a brighter employment future for those on the autism spectrum.

New! Work-Readiness Tools to Get and Stay Hired is holistic. Trainees discover via instruction and practice the foundational skills proven to be effective in getting a job/career and keeping it. Now these trainees are equipped with the basic tools for the workforce, but also for school, home, and the community. They demonstrate their strengths in learning, coping, communicating, and interacting with others. This New! Work-Readiness Tools to Get and Stay Hired is also a how to for succeeding in life.

Whether you are seeking a job or just secured one, you are going to want to stay hired. STAY HIRED details explains the types of behaviors that will make you successful in your job, including things like attitude, attendance, work habits, and respectful behaviors. STAY HIRED also details those negative actions that could land you fired, such as workplace violence, harassment, bullying, insubordination and unethical conduct.

No Matter what your career you can improve your ability to get hired or stay employed if you understand the sales techniques in this book! Learn to SELL and Stay Employed takes you through real-life sales experiences and teaches you over 100 proven Sales Techniques. James is one of those unique people that you want to do business with because, in simplest terms: He knows so much. -Howard Bronson -Author Free Enterprise James Thompson is a proven leader in sales. -Adrian T. Dayton, Esq., Author The Year of 12 Virtues Mr. Thompson has significant sales experience in multiple vertical markets. His book reads like a novel and teaches like a mentor. - L.S. Teza, Author, Brown-Nosing 101: A career survival manual for the rest of us Graduate Business Policy, Planning and Development Area Chair, Fl. I have worked with Mr. Thompson and know first-hand that his techniques and experiences can work for anyone who wants to expand their client base. -Paul B. Mouritsen, LTC (Ret), US ARMY, International Hospital CEO

If you want to get hired today, you must be a great candidate and an exceptional job seeker. Tory Johnson's New York Times bestseller, Will Work from Home, was comprehensive and inspiring. Now, the Women For Hire CEO and Good Morning America workplace contributor returns with advice and real-life stories for finding the right job after being let go. Tory knows what it takes to get noticed and hired, and helps you create a concrete action plan--one that will help you come out stronger and more successful than ever. Giving up is not an option. Now's the time to get the lay of the land, sharpen your skills, and energize your search. Here you'll learn how to: *Get over the sting of being unemployed *Develop a digital identity and dive into online social networking *Ensure your resume does not get lost in a big black hole *Build and leverage your "I Rock" file to master essential self-promotion *Pitch and secure an effective externship and make volunteer experience count *Launch a valuable job club that will yield strong support, job leads, and career success

In this instant New York Times Bestseller, Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls “the single biggest problem in business today”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours. This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider that the typical hiring success rate of managers is only 50 percent. The silver lining is that “who” problems are easily preventable. Based on more than 1,300 hours of interviews with more than 20 billionaires and 300 CEOs, Who presents Smart and Street’s A Method for Hiring. Refined through the largest research study of its kind ever undertaken, the A Method stresses fundamental elements that anyone can implement–and it has a 90 percent success rate. Whether you’re a member of a board of directors looking for a new CEO, the owner of a small business searching for the right people to make your company grow, or a parent in need of a new babysitter, it’s all about Who. Inside you’ll learn how to • avoid common “voodoo hiring” methods • define the outcomes you seek • generate a flow of A Players to your team–by implementing the #1 tactic used by successful businesspeople • ask the right interview questions to dramatically improve your ability to quickly distinguish an A Player from a B or C candidate • attract the person you want to hire, by emphasizing the points the candidate cares about most In business, you are who you hire. In Who, Geoff Smart and Randy Street offer simple, easy-to-follow steps that will put the right people in place for optimal success.

If you or someone you know is struggling with the daunting process of finding a new position, as well as learning what to do-and not to do-in order to meet people, network, and make connections who can help you learn about job openings in your field, Hired! is for you. The author experienced two job losses (both beyond his control) in three years, and what he learned to get the first new job cut his search time in half for the next time.? He provides many clear and easy-to-implement ideas that make you stand apart from other candidates, and more importantly, stand above them in the valuable information you should provide to show companies why they should hire YOU.