• Identify your strengths and skills, and explore career options.
• Locate job openings in the "hidden" job market.
• Know when and how to tell potential employers about your disability and needed accommodations.
• Write powerful resumes, cover letters, and follow-up correspondence.
• Know your rights under employment law.

This is the second edition of a popular, comprehensive career planning guide that covers the essential job search topics from the perspective of people who have physical or mental disabilities. Readers learn how to tell potential employers about their disabilities and ask for reasonable accommodations. Plus, they learn to understand and navigate employment law as it applies to them. This new second edition includes updated Web resources plus updated information on relevant new legislation and organizations.

Reprinted from the Department of Labor Web Site

Department of Labor and Small Business Administration Partner to Support People with Disabilities
Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao and Small Business Administration Administrator Hector V. Barreto signed a Strategic Alliance Memorandum (SAM) designed to help people with disabilities pursue small business ownership and to also increase their employment opportunities in small businesses. Read more.