Recruiting people with disability

About this guide

Recruiting People with Disability is a guide to help line managers in recruiting people with disability to their organisation.

It provides prompts and reminders for line managers who may already have some skills and experience in conducting a recruitment process.

The guide outlines:

• what is disability
• welcoming people with disability into your organisation.
• what are ‘reasonable adjustments’
• the best practice recruitment and selection process

• Getting recruitment right

  As a line manager, you are looking for the best person available for the job. This may well be a person with disability.
  
  

• What is disability?

  The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cwlth) defines disability in relation to a person. Here is a plain English translation provided by the Office for Disability:
  
  

• From the perspective of people with disability

  Things you can do to ensure that people with disabilities feel welcomed by your work unit or department and appreciated for their abilities, rather than noticed for their disability.

• Workplace or ‘reasonable’ adjustments in the public sector

  Advice for public sector organisations to write a workplace adjustment policy and process.

• The recruitment process

  The Best Practice Recruitment and Selection Toolkit will guide you though your recruitment and selection process.

• Resources and support

  Additional resources that support with recruitment of a person with disability.