The Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy offers “Recruiting and Hiring Disabled Workers” as a guide for employers committed to building a workplace that is inclusive to workers with disabilities. The guide outlines key strategies for recruiting and hiring disabled workers, including actively targeting candidates through vocational rehabilitation agencies and the Workforce Recruitment Program. It recommends employers demonstrate their commitment to inclusion from the outset by using disability-inclusive messaging and accessible recruitment materials, as well as being flexible in their recruitment and hiring processes—for example, by removing nonessential tasks from job descriptions, accepting work samples instead of over-relying on traditional resumes, and using skills-based hiring or paid job trials as alternatives to traditional interviews.
This is part of a collection of resources created by the Department of Labor and other federal agencies, relating to job quality and implementing good jobs priorities through federal investments and beyond. Many of these resources are no longer publicly available on government websites, though they were all at one point public and shared with the intent of preserving these resources for public use.
Please note that we cannot guarantee that information contained in these resources related to specific programs, policies, and processes remains accurate, though many best practices and examples remain useful. In addition, many of these resources link out to government websites that do not exist anymore. You may be able to find these linked resources in the archive itself by searching the Overview document. For more resources, please visit the Data Rescue Project website, at https://www.datarescueproject.org/
