The Ten Demandments: How to improve employment services for people with disability

Just as the job seeker with a disability needs support to find work, so too will they need support to maintain their pla... Read more

Although it's not the primary function of a disability employment service, community connections are vital to a well-rou... Read more

According to Joe Graffam from Deakin University, staff turnover in the disability employment field runs at 50 percent. T... Read more

The easy way to find work is to hop on the Internet, ring a business, and ask if they'd like XXX dollars to employ so-an... Read more

Many punitive systems exist whereby the job seeker is punished for not showing up to meetings or activities. Instead, jo... Read more

Generally, the disability employment sector doesn't ask employers to consider the value of a job seeker with a disabilit... Read more

People with a disability are rarely encouraged to 'aim high' with their goals. Often their lives have been defined by ot... Read more

People with a disability are frequently subject to staffing changes willy-nilly, yet both evidence and experience show t... Read more

Many assessment processes are based on identifying job-seeker deficits. It's very easy to point out someone's faults and... Read more

It's too easy for the hardest-to-place job seekers to be relegated to the end of the employment service's list. This mea... Read more