In this issue:
Eleven More Employers Partner with Gettinghired.com to Fill More than 2,000 New Job Openings
At Gettinghired.com we are celebrating the arrival of 11 new employer partners. When they all come on board in early June, job seekers with disabilities can look forward to accessing more than 2,000 additional job openings. The list of new Gettinghired.com employers include Microsoft, Panasonic, The ServiceMaster Company, Pepsi, Children's Memorial Hospital of Chicago, Western Illinois University, Duff & Phelps, Boehringer-Ingelheim Corporation, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Abilicorp, and Delta Dental. Try these links to view their jobs as they come onboard, set job alerts for those that are still ramping up and be the first to apply!
We congratulate them all for making their commitment to their communities a tangible reality. These employers understand that the frequently untapped pool of people with disabilities offers them the opportunity to hire qualified, motivated, productive, and reliable employees while, at the same time, they enhance their reputations for affirmative action, workplace diversity, and positive community involvement.
A recent study conducted by the University of Massachusetts at Boston confirms that companies who hire people with disabilities achieve a higher placement in the public's collective esteem than employers who either may not hire people with disabilities or don't bring attention to their hiring policies with respect to people with disabilities. Among surveyed consumers: 92 percent felt more favorable toward companies that hire people with disabilities; 87 percent said they would give their business to companies that hire people with disabilities; the employment of people with disabilities ranked third as an indicator of a company's commitment to social justice; and 98 percent of respondents who had been served by a worker with a disability reported that they were "very satisfied" or "satisfied" with the service they received. According to Working Together, a group of businesses in Maine who collaborate to meet their goal of hiring more people with disabilities, and who reported the results of the UMASS Study referenced above, there are real, bottom-line benefits for companies who look to the often untapped resource of job seekers with disabilities to fill staffing vacancies. These include:
Did you know?
Two simple ways to enhance your chances of finding a perfect job on GettingHired.com are to fully complete your profile and to increase the size of your network of contacts.
GettingHired makes it easy to do both.
- To add contacts you know to your network click here or quickly import them from your Gmail or YAHOO! account by clicking here.
After you've made connections make sure to view People you may know from your GettingHired Dashboard to grow your network even further.
- By achieving a higher profile completion percentage, you will increase your chances of RightMatch™ and you will receive more and better fitting job recommendations in your email. You can find your profile completion percentage at the bottom of the left hand column of your My GettingHired Profile Dashboard
Career Advice
What Now? Financial Help for People with Newly Identified Disabilities
What if you find yourself with a disability. Because of accident or illness or other unforeseen circumstances, what if you find that you can't walk, or hear, or see, or think clearly, or read, or write, or speak, or cope, and your doctor, counselor or social worker tells you that this unplanned-for state of being will be with you for the predictable future, perhaps forever? What now? What happens when the doctor says, "Nothing more can be done," or an employer says there's just no way you can continue to do the job for which you were hired, "due to your disability?" Now what? What can you do for an income? Where can you turn for help?
One of your most immediate and pressing concerns is likely to be about money. If you can't work in the job that has provided crucial income for you and your family, because of a newly acquired disability, where can you turn for help?
There are several programs that can help with a reliable monthly income while you begin to deal with the emotional, physical, and practical aspects of getting on with your life as a person with a disability.
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