If you require additional help, our service allows us to offer an enhanced one-to-one service for any student with a disability or dyslexia.

If you would like to speak to the Disability Careers Adviser then please contact:

Andrew Stainton
Disability Careers Adviser
E-mail: careers@hud.ac.uk

This additional help could be to:

• Help to explore your career options and future plans.
• Prepare a high quality and effective CV.
• Assistance with a specific job application.
• Provide help with finding a suitable placement.
• Look at opportunities for voluntary work or paid part-time work.
• Discuss issues around disclosure of your disability.
• Offer insights into where suitable opportunities may be found.
• Discuss how your disability may affect you career options.

A common area of concern is how and when to disclose a disability to an employer. Legislation prevents employers from discriminating against any candidate because of a disability and obliges them to make “reasonable adjustments” to their recruitment practices or workplace to accommodate anyone with a disability.

The following resources provide further advice:

Graduate Prospects has further information on marketing yourself and disclosure.

Workshop on Disclosing Your Disability - A workshop is run each term during the academic year providing information and advice on when and how to disclose your disability. Please contact us for further details.

If you are unsure about how, or when, to disclose a disability, contact Andrew Stainton Disability Careers Adviser to discuss your specific situation.

Further information how to market yourself effectively to employers via CV, application and at interview is available within the Application process section

Some useful web based resources for students with a disability are:

Use My Ability

Use  My Ability Practical advice to help students develop their employability skills. Gain advice on: employability skills; the abilities that underpin the skills; impairments that impact on the abilities and inclusive strategies.

Arberry Profile
Offers information, advice, case studies and advertises opportunities for students and graduates with a disability.

Association of disabled professionals
Has range of handouts on a range of issues including ‘being in Teaching as disabled person’ and ‘Job seeking advice for disabled people’

Disability Toolkits
Disability Toolkits aims to disabled students make the most of work experience and placement opportunities, exploring some of the issues that might face as a disabled student and providing information and sources of support.

Disabled Entrepreneurs Network
Provides networking opportunities and information for self-employed disabled people, including information on finance and training.

DisabledGo
Has a section advertising vacancies with disability positive employers.

Employ-ability
Organisation giving employment advice for people with disabilities.
Advertises internships, graduate opportunities and graduate fairs, as well as running student workshops.

Graduate-jobs.com
This website is completely compatible with software such as screen readers making it as user friendly as possible for blind and partially sighted graduates to access the site.

Group for solicitors with disabilities
Information for disabled solicitors and those wanting to enter the profession.

Leadership Recruitment
Is a partnership between Scope and national employers providing work placements and facilitating access to graduate schemes and jobs.

Prospects
Disability information on the Prospects website, the UK Higher Education careers website, has information on disclosure, destinations of disabled graduates and further resources.