APSE - DirectEmployers Association Partnership on Fast Forward

Submitted by James Emmett, HR Connect Director/Disability Consultant

The team at APSE HR Connect is extremely excited about the new partnership with DirectEmployers Association (www.directemployers.org).  DirectEmployers Association is a nonprofit HR consortium of leading global employers formed to improve labor market efficiency through the sharing of best practices, research and the development of technology.The partnership between APSE & DirectEmployers has been placed on fast forward over the past few months.  First, DirectEmployers Association has been announced as the primary sponsor of the Employer Leadership Forum (ELF) at the APSE Conference in June 2012.  Second, Jolene Jefferies, VP of Strategic Partnerships for DirectEmployers Association, will be a keynote speaker at the Employer Leadership Forum (ELF).  Third, APSE has been named one of the three national partners in the DirectEmployers Disability Outreach Project (along with Think Beyond the Label & National Organization on Disability (NOD)).  This three-tiered project focuses on helping the 700 company members (http://www.directemployers.org/about/member-companies/) build capacity & access resources to create diversity/disability outreach projects.