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Job Design and Review

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Advertising and Promotions

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Job Design and Review

Review the job before you advertise. 

For the role think about: 

  • essential and preferred attributes
  • prioritising the knowledge and skills required
  • new possibilities of how the role could be performed
  • options of flexibility.


Advertising and Promotion

Your aim as an inclusive employer is to ensure that your advertising attracts the talent you need. 
If you exclude potential applicants because of illness, you risk losing out on talented, creative and resourceful staff. 

Start by asking:

  • Are we inclusive?
  • Is our advertising biased in any way?
  • Does our advertising adhere to legal requirements?


Application Forms

Review your application forms and processes to make sure they allow potential employees to highlight their skills, knowledge, and experience.

  • Do the questions focus directly and only on the skills necessary to perform the job?
  • Can you give applicants clear job descriptions and let them know the application process and deadlines?

EEO Employers’ group


Workbridge

Workbridge administers government funding schemes to support disabled people into open employment, training or self-employment, as well as placing disabled people directly into work.


Recruiting disabled people

Workbridge

Information on how to have inclusive practice in the recruitment process from job design to interviews.


Advisors for Supported Employment in New Zealand

ASENZ helps disabled people to get a job and to keep it. Visit the website or phone ASENZ on 06 342 3899 to find your nearest branch.


Be. Employed

Be. Employed have joined their efforts with the Employers Disability Network to further grow the vision of greater, more meaningful and more accessible employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

 
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