Strategy for employment of persons with disability

The goal is to build, develop and sustain long term employment of persons with disability

APPROACH

• Create and sustain job opportunities
• Create and sustain a supply of suitable candidates
• Placement cell
• Create and sustain good support structure for disabled
• Work on long term supply of suitable candidates
• Work on long term attitude in workplace

CREATE AND SUSTAIN JOB OPPORTUNITIES

• Generate job opportunities for the disabled in collaboration with companies
• Collaborate and provide business case on how disabled will perform job
• Collaborative training model with company
• Regular review with employer and employee for feedback, resolution and further improvements [after placement ]
• (OTHER) Research self employment and entrepreneurship opportunities

CREATE AND SUSTAIN A SUPPLY OF SUITABLE CANDIDATES

• Personality development
• Pre-employment soft skills training
• English and communication training
• Computer or other technical training
• Internship employment at incubator employment cells and companies

PLACEMENT CELL

• Career Counseling
• Sourcing resumes and candidates from all NGOs and partners
• Candidate screening and classification for type of job
• Interview preparation
• Pre-interview counseling
• Placement
• Initial hand-holding for ensuring barrier-free workplace for disabled candidate
• Peer sensitization for company employees
• Regular counseling for a fixed period

CREATE AND SUSTAIN GOOD SUPPORT STRUCTURE FOR DISABLED

• Hire suitable trainers and NGO workers
• Knowledge management of all aspects of employment
• Employment opportunities (for extrapolation and generating new opps)
• Business case documentation
• Documentation of feedback, learnings
• Success ratio and success factors
• Employers database
• Job database (Roles, how it is done, aids used)
• Testimonials from employers (which can be advertised to build awareness)
• Regular training for support organizations (NGO and training orgs)
• Provide non subsidized housing for out of city/state candidates
• Work on availability of assistive aids and technology at affordable prices (research and development)
• Ensure compliance by NGOs with the procedures

WORK ON LONG TERM SUPPLY OF SUITABLE CANDIDATES

• Catch ‘em young – Sponsor suitable disabled candidates during college
• Administer Aptitude, skills and attitude tests
• Career Counseling
• Training and internship during summers
• Create awareness among disabled using knowledge database
• Provide access to knowledge base using different methods (web, dissemination by NGOs, workshops. media etc)
• Identification of new potential candidates
• Identification of right institutions

WORK ON LONG TERM ATTITUDE IN WORKPLACE

• Setup Incubator employment units for disabled
• They serve as living models of how disabled will work
• They serve as barrier-free environment for disabled
• Modifications and aids created to adapt the work environment for disabled
• Use available adaptations, accommodations and aids to place disabled in other companies as well
• Awareness among employers through outreach program
• Employee / peer sensitization
• Use forums such as NASSCOM and CII for maximum coverage
• Success stories available in different media (web, tv, news, radio, blogs)