{"id":5509,"date":"2026-01-20T22:07:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10124\/?p=5509"},"modified":"2026-01-24T14:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:20:32","slug":"employment-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=5509","title":{"rendered":"Employment Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#5608f3\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/rec\/play\/M5geAj24DjQtoRmiEjEzBFJn4DPk_3mYeAuKiKQrNXMJYqqS2zAox4XxldiTdPOa_oPQ8AaZ53JLeZwQ.XcB71V8Wk8oJhcYX\">recording<\/a> of the following presentation.<\/strong><\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">At the upcoming <span style=\"color:#ff0000\"><strong>A<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#ff6600\"><strong>A<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#ff9900\"><strong>S<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#008000\"><strong>C<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#33cccc\"><strong>E<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#3366ff\"><strong>N<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#993366\"><strong>D&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><strong>Job Club<\/strong> meeting on January 24&nbsp;via Zoom, the three Job Club facilitators, <strong>Dan Middleton, Michael Bernick<\/strong> and <strong>Keith Halperin, <\/strong>will discuss employment strategies. Michael will address the landscape of hiring people with disabilities. Dan will address tools for finding meaningful employment and introduce a training module on<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#f60202\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> <strong>using AI in your job search. <\/strong><\/mark>Keith will discuss the current activities of the weekly job club and plans for moving forward.<br><br><span style=\"color:#8B4513\"><strong>The Zoom link to this presentation will be emailed <span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"color:#8B4513\"><strong>as the date approaches<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>, <span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"color:#8B4513\"><strong>to people on our mailing list. There is no need to register for the event.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/span>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/aascend.us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=45b240034405a1b47948a710d&amp;id=a3632f7d57\">here<\/a> to subscribe to our mailing list if you aren&#8217;t already on it. <br> <br> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-file-id=\"13690143\" height=\"320\" width=\"480\" style=\"border: 0px  ; width: 480px; height: 320px; margin: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/45b240034405a1b47948a710d\/images\/36855ec4-ba9e-960f-3439-c5fd9244d4e5.jpg\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"display:none\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><span style=\"color:#006400\">As usual, autistic adults will share their perspectives throughout the program.<\/span><br><br>Who: Adults on the spectrum, family, professionals and friends all welcome!<\/strong><\/span><br> <strong>When: <span style=\"color:#ff0000\">Saturday, Jan 24, 2026 at 10:00 AM<\/span><\/strong> Pacific Time<br> <strong>Where: <span style=\"color:#ff0000\">Online via Zoom,&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size:13px\">Link will be emailed as the date approaches.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a recording of the following presentation. At the upcoming AASCEND&nbsp;Job Club meeting on January 24&nbsp;via Zoom, the three Job Club facilitators, Dan Middleton, Michael Bernick and Keith Halperin, will discuss employment strategies. Michael will address the landscape of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=5509\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}