EmployAbility

Employer Profile

EmployAbility


EmployAbility is the not-for-profit organisation dedicated to assisting people with all disabilities into employment. Working with anyone with a disability seeking employment and with employers seeking to become more ‘disability inclusive’, we provide the essential link between these two key groups as the experts in the field of disability and employment. We also maintain strong links with universities across the country to enable us to advise disabled students/ graduates, and work closely with other disability organisations and many other key stakeholders

Working with Disabled Students and Graduates
At EmployAbility we work with disabled students and graduates to ease the transition from education to employment, offering free support and advice throughout the recruitment process and beyond.

Our highly experienced team provides key advice and opportunities including:
  • Offering internship, work experience and graduate programme opportunities with top employers from within the investment banking, legal, finance and accountancy, management consultancy, chemicals, banking, media, public and many other sectors
  • Making recommendations of disability inclusive employers
  • Guidance, advice and support with CV and application form writing
  • Mock interview sessions with key employers
  • Advice and pertinent information on how to perform well at interviews and assessment centres
  • Information and advice regarding adjustments you may require during the recruitment process and/ or in the workplace
  • Information, advice and guidance on other key disability issues such as disclosure of a disability
  • Opportunities to attend specialist recruitment events

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All our services provide an invaluable insight into specific industries and present opportunities to meet the key recruiters from not only the UK’s leading companies, but those who work on a global scale

Services to Employers
EmployAbility offers a range of tailored consultancy services to employers, aimed at creating a more diverse and inclusive working environment. Our experienced and highly professional team is dedicated to changing hearts and minds in the disability and employment arena. We are passionate about the work we do and will liaise closely with employers in order to establish the specific needs of each organisation. The services we provide include:

  • Promoting an organisation as a disability inclusive employer
  • Attracting and helping integrate disabled applicants into available roles and opportunities
  • Setting up and managing internship programmes/ placement and vacation schemes and other student programmes; or helping to attract and fully integrate disabled applicants into existing programmes/ schemes
  • Setting up and managing mentoring programmes for disabled people
  • Disability Awareness and Equality Training
  • Audit of recruitment and selection processes and making relevant recommendations
  • Providing tailor made consultancy services on issues relating to disability and employment, specific to the needs of each organisation.
  • Advice and practical guidance on ‘reasonable adjustments’
  • Specialist disability specific recruitment/ talent seeking/ promotional/ other events for individual companies and on an industry wide basis


Please note that the above list is not exhaustive. The services we provide are designed to incorporate our clients’ specific requirements. We pride ourselves on taking time to listen to and act upon the needs of our clients.

Services for Universities
EmployAbility provides services to universities, including on site presentations informing students about our services, training/ workshop sessions for students on issues of disclosure and other areas, joint presentations with employers, one to one drop in sessions for students and other specialist events and projects. We also run training sessions for careers and information officers on ‘disclosure of disability’ and other such areas to equip them to better advise disabled students
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