Attracting job seekers to your service

Hints and tips

• Contact disability services in your local area and tell them about your services. Make sure you leave your telephone, email and fax details—perhaps leave brochures and success stories with them (particularly if your service can give examples of successfully working with people with disability).

• Set up a TTY (telephone typewriter) phone number.

• If your service is not a specialist in the employment of people with disability, you may want to consider appointing an employment consultant to be the point of contact for job seekers with disability.

• Make contact with your local Centrelink offices.

• Encourage employment consultants to attend disability awareness training.
• Disability awareness training

• Display a poster of the sign language alphabet on the walls of your office where job seekers will see it.

• Place visual aids in the reception and offices where case management occurs.

• Contact local educational providers and inform them of your services.

• Ask the local disability organisations to attend a staff meeting outlining their service and the particular disabilities they work with (if applicable).

• Ensure your service's web site is user friendly and accessible to people with disability including those who use adaptive technology such as screen readers or screen magnification software.

• Signage inside and outside of buildings should be located at eye level, and be formatted in large print, with high contrast colours to make the information easier to read for people with vision impairment.

Is your service accessible?

We have developed practical guidelines on how to make your goods, services, premises and facilities accessible to people with disability, including checklists to help you assess whether or not you are meeting the needs of people with disability.

• Accessibility