Employing People with Disabilities: A Positive Action Guide for Employers

Employing people with disabilities makes good business sense
- enhancing diversity and building a company's capacity and profitability.

By opening opportunities to people with disabilities you can widen your recruitment pool and meet your specific business needs.

This five step recruitment guide has been designed to help employers to match the right people with the right jobs, achieving positive outcomes for everyone.

Read and Download the Positive Action Guide for Employers

This recruitment guide has been produced as part of the Job Match project. This project is part funded through the Northern Ireland European Social Fund Programme 2014-2020 and the Department for the Economy. It is also part funded by the Department for Communities.

Job Match is delivered by Disability Action in partnership with the Department for Communities and the Northern Ireland Union of Supported Employment.

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