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Career Resources for Students with Disabilities
The following resources are provided to inform students with disabilities about employment related issues, and to ensure that students with disabilities understand their rights with respect to disclosing their disability before, during and after the job search.

 

  • Disclosure Options for Employment - this PDF includes the issues surrounding disclosure of a disability along with the advantages and disadvantages. (Source: National Association of Colleges and Employers webinar presentation - 9/2009)
  • The Legal Issues Surrounding the Disclosure of a Disability During a Job Interview - includes reasons to disclose and not to disclose. Author of article: Betsy Johnsen is an attorney practicing public interest and disability law in San Francisco. She herself has epilepsy and more recently developed RSI. She received a law degree from Hastings College of the Law in 1991, a master’s in human services management from the Heller School of Social Policy at Brandeis University, and a bachelor’s degree from Binghamton University.
  • NATIONAL BUSINESS AND DISABILITY COUNCIL
    Free resume posting access to companies committed to hiring persons with disabilities.  Listed= 200 jobs at all levels nationally, mostly technical and scientific.
  • Job Accomodation Network - Your Resource for Workplace Productivity Enhancements and Reasonable Accommodation Solutions.
  • Gettinghired.com- An online social networking and national job portal for individuals with disabilities, can make this transition easier for them. Our 508 technology allows unrestricted access for anyone with any disability. There is no charge for students to take part in our services.
  • Diversityinc.com - DiversityInc.com examines the business case for hiring, promoting and marketing to people with disabilities and tackles a wide range of issues, including workplace trends, laws and best practices for employers. Find out things like how much the purchasing power of people with disabilities has grown over the years, what kind of financial investment will you have to make to accommodate an employee with a disability and how many more students with disabilities are graduating from college than those without disabilities.
  • Career Opportunities for Students with Disabilities - Career Opportunities for Students with Disabilities (COSD) is a unique and dynamic national professional association comprised of more than 600 colleges and universities and nearly 300 major national employers. COSD's mission is to improve the employment rate of college students and recent graduates with disabilities on a national basis. COSD works with higher education institutions and assists them in developing collaborative relationships between the Disability Services and Career Services offices on campuses. The result is students with disabilities are better prepared and more competitive in the career search. COSD closely works with employers to identify innovative methods of recruiting and hiring college graduates with disabilities, including creation of internship opportunities or encouraging participation of employers in specialized internship and recruiting programs that focus on college students with disabilities.
  • Connect-ability.com - Our purpose is to bring Connecticut's employers and people with disabilities together.
    Connect-Ability works to remove barriers that make it hard for jobseekers with disablities to find and keep jobs. Our role is to offer information, tools, and technical assistance to jobseekers and employers rather than provide direct job placement services.
  • CT Department of Labor: **Excellent Resource**
For additional job search resources for those with diabilities, please click here.

For additional internship search resources for those with disabilities, please click here.