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)