Strategy for employment of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs)

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)