Section outline
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✅ Finding the Right Employer[1]
When looking at job adverts, watch for signs that an employer is inclusive and supportive:
· ♿ Options for accessible formats (e.g. large print, alternative formats)
· 🗣️ Advance notice of interview questions or flexible recruitment processes
· 🛠️ Invitations to request reasonable adjustments
· ✔️ The Disability Confident (Two Ticks) symbol
· 🌍 Clear statements about diversity and inclusion
💡 Tip: Public sector employers often publish their Disability or Inclusion Schemes online—worth checking out!
🎯 Top Interview Tips
✨ Show your strengths
· Talk about your skills, achievements, and qualifications
· Share examples of overcoming challenges
✨ Use your strategies
· Apply study techniques that worked for you (mind maps, planning tools, practice interviews)
✨ Plan ahead
· Think about whether you want to disclose your disability
· Be ready to explain any reasonable adjustments you may need
✨ Stay confident
· Employers care most about what you can do!
💼 Useful Websites & Support
🔗 EmployAbility: Home - EmployAbility
Support with job applications, disclosure advice, and recruitment events
🔗 Evenbreak
A global Job board matching disabled candidates with inclusive employers, “run by and for people with lived experience of disability: Evenbreak - Award-winning Job board for disabled people
🔗 MyPlus Students’ Club
Free careers advice and employer connections: Supporting Disabled Students & Graduates | My Plus Students' Club
🔗 Diversity Milkround
Graduate jobs, internships, and diversity-focused employers: Milkround | Graduate Jobs, Schemes & Internships
🔗 Business Disability Forum
List of employers committed to inclusion: Business Disability Forum
🔗 BBC Extend Scheme
Traineeships and apprenticeships with the BBC: Extend | BBC Extend Scheme
🔗 Scope
Support, training, and work opportunities: Home | Disability charity Scope UK
💰 Funding & Financial Support
💷 Access to Work (Government Scheme): Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition: What Access to Work is - GOV.UK
· Helps pay for equipment, transport, or support workers
· Supports you to start and stay in work
🎓 Snowdon Trust: Snowdon Trust - Investing in Disabled Students
· Grants for study and training
🧠 Condition-Specific Support
ADHD
- ADHD Foundation: Home - ADHD Foundation : ADHD Foundation
- ADDISS: ADDISS – The National Attention Deficit Disorder Information and Support Service
- UK Adult ADHD Network (UKAAN): ADHD
- The UK ADHD Partnership: Home | The UK ADHD Partnership
- Mind ADHD resources: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/tips-for-everyday-living/adhd-and-mental-health/
Dyslexia
- British Dyslexia Association: www.bdadyslexia.org.uk
- Dyslexia UK (Adults): https://www.dyslexia.uk.net/what-is-dyslexia/adults-with-dyslexia/
Mental Health
- NHS Mental Health Services: Mental health services - NHS
- Mind: We're Mind, the mental health charity | Mind
🌈 Remember
✔️ You have valuable skills, talents, and strengths
✔️ There are employers who want diverse talent
✔️ Support is available - you are not alone!
🚀 Take Your Next Step
Start exploring opportunities, reach out for support, and believe in your potential. Your career journey starts now!
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