Full day masterclass: Recruitment masterclass - bringing in fresh talent

In partnership with Clear

29th September 2009, 9:30am - 4.30pm, Central London

In a time of recession it's important to keep your processes barrier free to disabled people. At a time when there is even more competition for every role, you need to ensure that disabled people remain a priority group who have equal access to vacancies in your organisation.  At the same time, working more closely with recruitment agencies as well as Access to Work will help you to give the best possible opportunity to disabled candidates.

Disabled people of working age in the UK represent 6.8 million of the total employable population, about 20% of all available talent. For some groups of disabled people the gap is much larger than that and their employment level is unacceptably low.

With the public service agreement (PSA 16) targeted to help more disabled people with mental health conditions and learning disabilities, never has there been a more important time to ensure you stay focused and barrier free for disabled people.

Through a combination of expert speakers and facilitators, we are pleased to be re-running this event. By exploring the recruitment cycle, as well as relationships with recruitment suppliers, this highly interactive and structured masterclass will give you the inspiration and skills to access talented disabled job seekers.

Speakers include:

• Simon Minty, Associate, Employers' Forum on Disability (EFD) and Director sminty Ltd.
• Kate Headley, Director, The Clear Company.
• Personal experience of recruitment practices from Pauline Alexander.
• Rachel Boyd, Global Leadership and Diversity Associate, Goldman Sachs.

Why attend?

This event enables you to:

• In groups, work through the recruitment cycle and identify where the barriers are for candidates, look at what you can do differently and provide solutions to both.
• Look at creative ways to ensure that job opportunities at your organisation are more attractive to disabled people and that they remain top of the pile even in the time of a recession.
• Examine ways that employers have tried to attract from the disabled talent pool and work with third parties and agencies.
• Understand how to build supply chains that makes it easier to employ disabled people and gives more disabled people access to jobs.
• Work more effectively to protect your organisation from commissioning suppliers who are not disability confident and who do not practice barrier free recruitment.

Who should attend?

Recruitment and HR specialists.