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Preparing For a Job Interview When You Have ADD

November 21, 2011

Preparation for the interview Know where you are going: Review directions to the interview site the day before. Be clear as to how you’ll get there and how long it will take. Clearly write out the interviewer’s name, title, phone number and office location. Keep it easily accessible. (If you‘re not sure about this info, [...]

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AD/HD Presentation to Human Resource Professionals

December 4, 2009

AD/HD:  THE WOKPLACE Preparation notes for presentation to Human Resource professionals by Harold R. Meyer and Anne Ford AD/HD is real. It is precisely the strengths of those with AD/HD that brought about the internet, today’s personal computers, airlines such as jetBlue, which began and flourished at a time when other airlines were failing left [...]

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Quality vs. Quackery: Identifying Reliable Health Information

November 14, 2009

The internet provides an incredible amount of information for people interested in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD).  You can find the latest medical research, behavior management techniques, info on seminars, classes and professionals, and so on.  Why, you can even find our website (addrc.org). This is wonderful, but also frightening.  Anyone can say anything with authority.  What [...]

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10 Job Success Tips for the Unfocused by Wilma Fellman, M.Ed.

September 25, 2009

by Wilma Fellman, M.Ed., LPC The National Institute for Mental Health (NIHM) reports that more than 9 million US adults have difficulties focusing on the job. It also reports that while more than 4 percent of working adults are diagnosed with ADHD, vast numbers of undiagnosed adults struggle with being successful in the workplace. For [...]

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Office Messes by Lisa Belkin

July 14, 2004

by Lisa Belkin NYT Sunday Magazine.  Published: July 18, 2004 When Vivienne Sales finally broke her silence, she did so loudly, losing her temper in the hushed library where she worked. It was August 2003, and she had been hanging on to her job as a reference librarian by the most fragile of threads. For [...]

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