Introducing a Job Finding Service for Disabled People and Employers

HAD has added an Internet based job finding service for disabled people and employers to this site. It's designed to work for anyone and everyone, including people looking for part time work, occasional work and customers for self employed people.

This service is provided through the CanDo index which advertises what you can do directly to employers. That's all it advertises, with nothing about what you can't do, how old you are or anything else.

You build your employment profile showing several aspects of what you can do. Only this is shown to employers - not who you are or how to contact you. There is no need to write a Curriculum Vitae.

There is no charge to advertise until you get a reply from an employer. The system then asks you to subscribe at a cost of £5 a year for a HAD website user. As a subscriber the system sends you employers' enquiries as soon as they are received. The details of the enquiry are sent to your email address and an alert goes to your mobile phone. The process is so fast that employers can receive replies to their enquiries within 5 minutes or so of making them.

Employers

All an employer has to do is to go from the HAD site to the British Council of Disabled People's website, enter what they are looking for and where, then the system shows them matching job seekers. The employer chooses people of interest, enters a short invitation to apply for the job and clicks the button. That's it - no cost, no contract, no middleman, no delay.

Once an employer and a job seeker are in touch they decide what's practical and what isn't.