February 2024 Special Needs Living

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February 2024

BY JASON DRESDEN

Hire us! It’s ok…. REALLY IT IS!

PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVE > JASON DRESDEN

Are you a business owner who struggles to find quality, long-term employees? Is your staff retention rates in shambles? How about your company morale, down in the dumps too? Are your diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives close to zero?

Well, I’m going to let you in on a little secret, there is a huge pool of talented, hard-working and qualified candidates with disabilities waiting to be hired! That’s right, you read it correctly, WAITING to be hired. So as a hiring manager or business owner, how do you engage and gain access to these ready and waiting job seekers, and how come you don’t know about them? It is becoming more and more


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