Resources for students with disabilities

Prospects
Target Jobs
Skill (the National Bureau for Students with Disabilities) - Provides a useful job seeking guide called ‘Get That Job’
Diversity Milkround - Lists UK based companies wishing to promote diversity within the workplace and offering internships, industrial placements and graduate positions. Candidates can choose to receive information about certain areas of diversity (age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity).
EmployAbility - Not-for-profit organisation that facilitates and manages the selection and recruitment for disability inclusive employers seeking to attract and recruit disabled people onto internships, graduate programmes and other permanent roles. All of their opportunities are open for students/graduates with disabilities, including dyslexia.
Job Hunter - Employment Opportunities - Recruitment for disabled students and graduates. Provide internships within the investment banking sector and now also work with a selection of top city law firms, insurance and actuarial companies.
Scope Graduate - Provides graduate opportunities for disabled people and is a partnership between Scope and national employers providing work placements and facilitating access to graduate schemes and jobs.
Association of Disabled Professionals - Provides advice, information and peer support to disabled people, their advisers and friends focusing mainly on employment and related issues.
Disability Toolkits - Provides information and advice about work experience for disabled students.
Blind in Business - A charity which operates across the UK. It helps blind and partially sighted students into work through training and employment services.
Employers forum on disability - UK employers’ organisation focusing on recruiting and retaining disabled staff and improving services to disabled customers.
Forth Sector restart - Organisation providing advice and support for people who suffer from mental illness, and who have been unemployed for over 6 months but who would like to get back to work.
Target Chances - A series of initiatives organised by TARGETchances and major employers to help particular students find out more about career areas. The initiatives are specifically aimed at: ethnic minority, female and disabled students.