Disabled people into employment.

studentphil

Dave_liverpool wrote:

shouldn't that read ' I will be apply for a job to start in the summer then?'

I thought you course would've ended by then.

Who did you apply to? If the rooms should've been booked to have an interview in then it is bad form but also did they not offer a 2nd interview then? I know it would've presented more logistical problems.

That is the Summer of 2006. My course will have finished by this summer. It was only a medium sized company not household name.

cupid_s

But you have no comparison. My friend has no disability she graduated a year after me (so 2004) with a very high 2:1 in psychology. She still has not found a job. I have so many friends in this position all able bodied who have been turned down for so many jobs they probably couldn't count. I applied for summer job after summer job and got turned down for 98% of them. I have no disability.

You might apply for 100 jobs. Each and every time there is a better candidate than you and they get the job. How would you ever know if this is the case or if they really are prejudiced against you for being disabled?

studentphil

Fleago wrote:

There is no longer any "quota system". It was abolished by the DDA (1995). It also abolished the registration of disabled people for employment purposes. However, many local authorities hold a register of disabled people for the purposes of providing their services, but this is not the same thing at all. To be covered by the DDA a person need only fit the criteria laid down by the Act.

And you have seen an advert for jobs aimed specifically aimed at disabled people. Disabled graduates at that. Or you would have done if you had clicked on the link I gave you many, many moons ago in another deja vu thread.

That is true I have seen that one, but I forgot I had when I said I had not.

studentphil

cupid_stunt wrote:

But you have no comparison. My friend has no disability she graduated a year after me (so 2004) with a very high 2:1 in psychology. She still has not found a job. I have so many friends in this position all able bodied who have been turned down for so many jobs they probably couldn't count. I applied for summer job after summer job and got turned down for 98% of them. I have no disability.

You might apply for 100 jobs. Each and every time there is a better candidate than you and they get the job. How would you ever know if this is the case or if they really are prejudiced against you for being disabled?

You can generally get a feeling if being disabled is going to be an issue with an employer in how they talk about it.

If I can not get a job then I will just have to keep going on University courses until I run out of money I suppose.

Dave_liverpool

studentphil wrote:

That is the Summer of 2006. My course will have finished by this summer. It was only a medium sized company not household name.

so did they offer a 2nd interview date or to be blunt 'blown out'

I would write a strong letter to my MP if it was the latter, this needs to be tackled.
Its this form of discrimination that prevents people getting on in the world. They offered an interview but couldn't (or didn't) provide adequate facilities for it to be held.

Dr_Kiwi_Cobra

Trouble with your disables is they are all different, you cant just say "we love to hire the disables" if you own a paint spraying business and then a bloke with no arms turns up, it would be chaos imo.

studentphil

Dave_liverpool wrote:

so did they offer a 2nd interview date or to be blunt 'blown out'

I would write a strong letter to my MP if it was the latter, this needs to be tackled.
Its this form of discrimination that prevents people getting on in the world. They offered an interview but couldn't (or didn't) provide adequate facilities for it to be held.

I went up stairs, which whilst steps are not impossible I am not right safe on them

Dave_liverpool

studentphil wrote:

I went up stairs, which whilst steps are not impossible I am not right safe on them

that is a problem, sorry to hear it.
So you did get the interview just not the job in this case.

Onwards and upwards as they say then!

Edinburghlass_2

studentphil wrote:

I went up stairs, which whilst steps are not impossible I am not right safe on them

and nor can he shift cupboards or sit still for long.... so no matter what blinking job it is he'll find an excuse :rolleyes:

Been there, read the threads and got the t-shirts

studentphil

Dave_liverpool wrote:

that is a problem, sorry to hear it.
So you did get the interview just not the job in this case.

Onwards and upwards as they say then!

Yeah, they said I interviewed well but someone else was slightly better on the day, but I still think that they were never going to employ a disabled person as they made no adjustments for access.