Finding Work

Finding Work: Online Resources for Job Seekers With Disabilities

Job seeker with disabilities, using a “leave no stone unturned” approach will offer the best shot at securing the employment desired. Here are some of the resources geared toward helping people with disabilities to find work.

GettingHired.com. GettingHired.com connects talented job seekers who happen to have disabilities with employers, advocacy organizations, and service providers.

www.ajb.dni.us/com Although America ’s Job Bank suspended operations in July of 2007, it still offers an online address to find alternative state-by-state sites that cover disability issues and post job openings.

www.Business-disabilitycom The National Business and Disability Council’s resume database for workers with disabilities.

www.disability.gov The federal government’s database of information on disability issues, includes a directory of websites for job seekers

www.disableperson.com An online community for people with disabilities, offering a range of services that include a recruiting program that features a resume database and employment directory.

www.dol.gov The Department of Labor website is a rich source of information relating to employment, proving everything for tips on creating a scannable resume to updates on disability policies. It’s also contains links to www.hirevetsfirst.gov or www.communityinclusion.org

www.esight.org This site, sponsored by The Associated Blind, Inc. is a cross-disability online community that addressed disability employment issues and lists job openings by city/state.

www.workplacediversity.com

www.yourtickettowork.com Employment networks serving Ticket to Work programs for the disabled.

www.fdwc.info The website for the Federal Disability Workforce Consortium

www.diversityworld.com Diversity World.

www.worksupport.com Information, resources and research about work and disability issues.

www.eop.com/cd.html Careers and the Disabled

www.usbin.com The web page for the Business Leadership Network

www.earnworlks.com Employer Assistance and Recruiting Network offers a free service to connect employers with disability staffing agencies

www.jan.wvu.edu The Job Accommodation Network

www.dol.gov/odep/pubs/newsletter/200502.htm The Office of Disability Employment Policy’s e-newsletter.

www.deafprofessional.net To promote career development and networking opportunities for the deaf and hard of hearing community.

www.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/vrpractices/index.html This U.S. Department of Education web page lists the employment specials in all 50 states.

www.eeoc.gov/initiatives/lead The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Leadership for the Employment of Americans with Disabilities website.

www.servicelocator.org The website to search for one-stop, which provide employment services to both individuals seeking employment and employers seeking job candidates.

www.online.onetcenter.org The website to find occupational information, such as key attributes and characteristics of workers and occupations.

www.start-up-usa.biz Self-employment website, funded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy, to provide technical assistance and information for individuals with disabilities.

www.employmentincentives.com A private grant funded website that provides information on national and state incentives for employers who hire job candidates with disabilities.

www.abilityone.org The AbilityOne Program is a Federal initiative to help people who are blind or have other significant disabilities find employment by working within a national network of over 600 Nonprofit Agencies that sell products and services to the U.S. government.