Resources

We prepared and gathered the following resources for employers, students and post-secondary service providers to use to help students and recent graduates with disabilities start down the pathway to meaningful employment.

For employers

  1. Employers Guide to Hiring and Working with Professionals with Disabilities
  2. Tips for Employers: Understanding Disability (accessible PDF)
  3. Tips for Employers: Language and Disability (accessible PDF)
  4. Tips for Employers: Building an Inclusive Workplace (accessible PDF)
  5. Building Disability Etiquette Into the Workplace (accessible PDF)
  6. Employers Guide to Workplace Accommodations (accessible PDF)
  7. Tips About Disclosure (accessible PDF)

For students

  1. Job Seekers Guide for Students and Graduates with Disabilities
  2. Tips and Considerations When Disclosing a Disability to an Employer (accessible PDF)
  3. General: Tips for Students About Workplace Accommodations (accessible PDF)
  4. Carleton University: Tips for Students About Workplace Accommodations (accessible PDF)

For post-secondary service providers

  1. Tips for Working with Students with Disabilities (accessible PDF)
  2. Tips for Communicating with Students About Workplace Accommodations (accessible PDF)
  3. Tips for Communicating with Students About Disclosure (accessible PDF)

Articles

  1. Ottawa Business Journal’s HR Update
  2. CAPITAL Magazine: Creating an Inclusive Recruitment Strategy

DCOI videos

Video on Assistive Technology
Webinar on Creating Accessible Documents
Webinar files: PDF and PPT download
Video on Disability Unemployment Statistics

External resources

The Conference Board of Canada’s Employers’ Toolkit contains a large collection of insights, tools and tactics to help employers make their workplaces more inclusive.

The Mental Health Commission of Canada’s business case for hiring aspiring workers who are living with a mental illness gives employers strategies and practices to recruit and retain these people.

The Rethinking Disability in the Private Sector Report of the Panel on Labour Market Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities provides a mix of overarching and specific considerations for employers who want to create more inclusive and accessible workplaces.

The Why Hire People with Disabilities Report supplies employers with practical ideas and guidelines to hire people with disabilities, a business case for doing so, tools to train persons with disabilities, strategies to create inclusive workplaces, and guides to accommodate persons with disabilities in workplaces.

The Business Benefits of Accessible Workplaces report focuses on the business benefits of accessibility by outlining various returns that organizations can gain when investing in accessible employment practices for people with disabilities.