With 16% of university students in the UK having a disability employers need to have a strategy which not only considers how to attract and recruit disabled students but also provides them with support enabling them to thrive and contribute to the organisation once they are employed.
Retention is just as important as recruitment when it comes to disability employment
If your recruitment is slowing with the current uncertain economy, now is the perfect time to focus your attention on the retention element of disability employment and to review how you support and develop disabled employees to encourage them to stay. This will not only benefit your current disabled employees as well as other non-disabled employees who may become disabled whilst working for you, it will make you even more attractive to any future disabled candidates.
