Cornell University research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy has identified approaches to designing employer career webpages that can significantly heighten the likelihood of a company’s success in attracting job seekers with disabilities and encouraging them to apply for open positions.

Susanne Bruyère, a professor of Disability Studies and academic director of the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability at the Cornell ILR School, takes a close look at this research—and what it means for employers as well as people with disabilities—and offers insights for recruiting applicants with disabilities, finetuning hiring processes and understanding how a person with a disability may choose to self-identify to potential employers.

What You'll Learn

• Approaches to disability-inclusive messaging on Fortune 500 company career webpages
• How job seekers with disabilities approach job searching online
• How to tailor messaging to encourage job seekers with disabilities to apply and self-identify

The Cornell Keynotes podcast is brought to you by eCornell, which offers more than 200 online certificate programs to help professionals advance their careers and organizations. Susanne Bruyère is an author of these programs:

• Neurodiversity at Work
• Workplace Disability Inclusion

Resources mentioned in the episode:

• Checklist for Employers: Facilitating the Hiring of People with Disabilities through the use of eRecruiting Screening Systems, Including AI
• Disability Outreach and Inclusion Messaging: Assessment Checklist for Career Pages
• ODEP website
• Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability Website 

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