Employer Tips on Interviewing Applicants with Disabilities Employers are as perplexed by the social aspects of interviewing someone with a disability as they are by the legal concerns. Here are some basic guidelines for keeping a job interview focused on the applicants qualifications. When Interviewing an Applicant with Any Disability Dont ask: What happened [...]

Employment Scenarios: What Would You Do? A job applicant tells you that she has a mental illness and needs to come in at 10 am instead of your normal starting time of 8:30 am. The job is a secretarial position and you need someone to answer the phones when you open for business and the [...]

Employment and Disability: Glossary of Terms by Kim Donahue, Disaboom Employment and Disability: Glossary of Terms (The following information is drawn from The Red Book from the Social Security Administration.) Blind Work Expenses. If you are blind, the SSA does not count any earned income that you use to meet expenses in earning that income [...]

Employee Networks Help People with Disabilities – DisaboomJobs by Suzanne Robitaille When Pepsi aired a Superbowl commercial featuring deaf actors who communicated in sign language, the ad became an instant hit. Though an agency created the ad, credit for the idea went to EnAble, Pepsi’s employee network for people with disabilities. EnAble dug up leadership’s [...]

Four Ways Companies Can Measure Returns Hiring Employees with Disabilities In the last few years, disability hiring has undergone a sea change, moving its stature from philanthropic cause to good business decision. That’s good news for job hunters and employers alike, and has breathed new life into corporate disability-hiring programs across all industries, from retail [...]