Career coach Rosalind Joffe consults people with disabilities and chronic illnesses who want to return to the workplace. Her advice: Start small, look for telecommuting opportunities and never lose hope.
An interesting scene on last night’s episode of Mad Men, which is set in the 1960s. A top executive at the Sterling Cooper ad agency — known as a “pure account man” — got his foot run over by (a drunk secretary on) a John Deere lawn mower. After he is rushed to the hospital, [...]
A group of disability organizations has launched the Campaign for Disability Employment to promote the hiring of people with disabilities. Actor Robert David Hall, who plays a coroner on C.S.I. and is a paraplegic, kicked off the campaign with a keynote speech at the U.S. Business Leadership Network conference in Washington, D.C.
Walgreen’s highest producing distribution center in the U.S. is in Anderson, S.C. In it, 40 percent of the 700 people have a disability such as cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, autism and traumatic brain injury. Says Walgreen's Randy Lewis: "We want to hire 1,000 people by 2012."
Kareem Dale is a powerful force in Washington for disabilities. He was named to the highest ranking position on disabilities ever to be created by a U.S. President. Dale is a lawyer from Chicago who is now Obama’s special assistant for disability policy. He has the president’s ear when it comes to finding ways to [...]
