Working with a range of inclusive employers at Evenbreak, we learn new things every day. We were delighted when RSA, one of the world’s leading multinational quoted insurance groups, started to advertise their roles with us in their drive to attract a more diverse workforce. However, our delight was increased when we saw that the … Continue reading Insurance is more interesting than you think!
Category: Attracting Disabled Candidates
It is estimated that over one billion people in the world suffer from a disability and that of this one billion, between 110 and 190 million have difficulty in functioning. The rate of disability continues to increase due to ageing population and an increase in chronic health conditions. While many persons with disabilities are of … Continue reading Infograph: Why diversity in staff can improve business performance
Nearly 7 million people of working age in the UK have a disability but the employment rate for disabled people lags well behind non-disabled people. Only 46% of working age disabled people are in employment compared to 76% of working age non-disabled people – representing a gap of around two million. The Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative (RIDI) believes more … Continue reading 5 Steps to Disability Confidence
The Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative are running another awards programme to celebrate good practice - in fact this is the recruitment industry's only disability award! If you’re involved in the Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative (RIDI) you know that actions really do speak louder than words. You’re already part of a unique initiative to drive change … Continue reading Are you a potential winner in the RIDI awards?
Opening Doors: Inclusive Recruitment and Selection Thursday 28th May, hosted by EY, One More London Place, London Evenbreak is holding a unique event, kindly sponsored by EY, exploring best practice in using inclusive recruitment to attract the very best talent from an often over-looked pool – disabled people. If you are a Director of HR, … Continue reading Exciting News! The next Evenbreak event!
Always keen to ensure our candidates know what is available for you, we wanted to promote this great scheme from RNIB, called Extending the Reach, aimed at helping blind and partially-sighted people looking for work. More on their nwebsite here. RNIB's Extending the Reach programme (EtR) works to place unemployed blind and partially sighted people … Continue reading Opportunities for blind and partially sighted candidates
We have a huge variety of roles on our job board at Evenbreak, and sometimes a really exciting one comes through. Channel 4 already have a great reputation for using disabled presenters, especially since the Paralympics, and they are just as keen to ensure that disabled people are well-represented behind the cameras too. The traineeships … Continue reading Fantastic opportunity for sporty candidates!
Maya Middlemiss of Saros Research explains why it is so important that researchers include the views of disabled people: Saros Research is the UK’s main portal that qualitative researchers and user experience designers turn to, when they want to find people to give feedback on what they are doing. They specialize in matching researchers with … Continue reading Why the opinion of disabled people matters to researchers
Living Wage week begins next Sunday (2nd November), and I thought it might be useful to talk about why being a Living Wage employer is so important to us at Evenbreak. There has been discussion recently from a number of prominent figures around whether some disabled people are "worth the minimum wage". Whether or not … Continue reading Why Evenbreak is a Living Wage employer
Evenbreak recently held our first conference. Called “Employing Disabled People – the Bottom Line”, it was aimed at helping employers understand the real business benefits of employing disabled people, with lots of ideas about how to gain those benefits. The aims of the conference were two-fold – firstly to help employers become more accessible and inclusive … Continue reading A successful conference!