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Welcome Placement Agencies
Our commitment is to provide an online, targeted recruiting site that
effectively connects proactive employers with job seekers with disabilities.
How can we help you?
Free to your Employers.
Unlimited Resume Postings.
Improve your service to Employers!
Improve your collaboration with other Agencies.
National Agency Directory
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Tips on how to effectively use RecruitABILITY
Using RecruitABILITY as your own data base
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How can we help you?
You are in the business of helping people with disabilities to enter the
workforce – assisting them to connect with the jobs and companies that will best
meet their career goals. Increasingly, more and more companies are using the
Internet as a favored method for locating new employees. We have designed
RecruitABILITY
as a full-service online recruiting site that you can use to effectively connect
your Agency’s Job Seekers with disabilities with proactive Employers.
We have designed RecruitABILITY
to work in concert with your own services! Sure, you can simply opt to inform
your Job Seekers about the RecruitABILITY
site and encourage them to post their own resumes. But, more effectively,
RecruitABILITY
can be adopted as an integral part of your job development efforts.
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Free to your Employers!
First of all, you need to know that resume search on
RecruitABILITY
is free to Employers. This is a really important feature. Any Employer in your
community can come to the RecruitABILITY
site and search the resumes for free! Unlike other similar Websites for people
with disabilities, there are no fees to stand between your job seekers and the
job opportunities that await them!
Once you have posted your resumes on RecruitABILITY,
you can let all the Employers in your community know that they can come here to
freely find talented people with disabilities for their job openings – including
your clients! You can build a link directly from your website. You brochures can
read; “All of our job seekers have their resumes posted on
RecruitABILITY
at www.disabledperson.com.”
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Unlimited Resume Postings
When you open a free “Agency” account with RecruitABILITY,
you will be able to post an unlimited number of resumes on the system – all of
your job seekers, if you want!
We want to make sure that resumes are as current as possible – so, you are able
to update/delete/add resumes whenever you want. In fact, once you have posted a
resume we will send you a reminder, every three months, to see if you want to
delete it, retain it, or revise it.
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Improve your Service to
Employers!
If the employers that you work with are Internet-savvy, they will appreciate
being able to use RecruitABILITY
as a tool to quickly find candidates with disabilities for their job openings.
Many employers will still contact you directly for candidates. When this
happens, you can use RecruitABILITY
as your own data base - to quickly find appropriate candidates for the job. If
your Agency doesn’t have appropriate candidates, you can also use
RecruitABILITY
yourself to find other job seekers with disabilities in your area to refer to
your Customer!
One of the organizations that I worked for had up to 500 active job seekers with
disabilities on any given day. If an Employer called in looking for a
“Bookkeeper”, I would have to contact at least 6 different Job Developers and
ask them each if they had any Bookkeepers in their caseloads!
RecruitABILITY
provides a great alternative to that kind of inefficiency. You can use it as
your own data base! Once all your job seekers’ resumes are on the
RecruitABILITY
system, you can quickly locate appropriate candidates with a simple keyword
search. (See: Using RecruitABILITY
as your own data base Below) If you use RecruitABILITY
this way, the next time an Employer calls with a job opening, you can respond
immediately. Instead of saying “I’ll call you back as soon as I can.” you can
say; “Here are the resumes of three people that have the skills you need!”
Notice that we are also developing resources on the
RecruitABILITY
site that will encourage and support Employers in employing people with
disabilities (see: Here). They will be thankful
to you for referring them to this useful information.
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Improve your
collaboration with other Agencies!
Are you involved in a coalition of Agencies in your area that provide employment
services to people with disabilities? Do you work closely with other placement
agencies for people with disabilities? RecruitABILITY
can also help you all to work together more effectively.
Get all the other Agencies actively using RecruitABILITY
and, together, encourage Employers in your community to search for appropriate
job candidates on one site!
Also, by simply adding a common “keyword” to all the resumes submitted by the
collaborating agencies, you can readily identify the resumes of each other’s job
seekers. If you get a job order from an employer, and don’t have a qualified
applicant of your own, you can use RecruitABILITY
to quickly search for a job seeker from another Agency who meets the Employer’s
needs! (See: Using RecruitABILITY
as your own data base Below)
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National Agency Directory
To further support Employers, we are currently building an online Directory of
Employment-related disability Agencies throughout the Country. If you want your
Agency listed, send us an email with your Agency Name, Description (up to 30
words), City/State, Email Address, and Web Address. (Note: Agencies that are
Corporate Subscribers with RecruitABILITY
will be given preferred positioning.)
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Is your City not in our search
criteria?
You will notice that we have a number of pre-selected cities in each State by
which resumes can be searched. If your city isn’t listed, and you want it to be,
let us know! If you plan to actively post resumes, we’ll get your city added!
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Tips on how to most effectively
use RecruitABILITY
In putting RecruitABILITY to use for your
Agency, here are a few pieces of advice that you will want to consider:
Register as a placement Agency.
Your first step will be to register with RecruitABILITY.
Just like employers do, you will be registering as a “Corporate” subscriber, not
an “Individual”. (Note: You will not be charged for anything unless you later
choose to post jobs or advertise on the site.) When you register, you will need
to select a User ID and a password. You will want to give these to any personnel
who will be posting resumes. (i.e. You might want several different job
developers to post the resumes from their individual caseloads. Each of them
will need access to your ID and password.)
Posting and Managing your Resumes
Once you have registered, and every time you sign in, you will end up at
your personalized “Corporate Subscriber Center”. Here, under “Agency
Activities”, you will be able to easily post, delete, and/or revise all your
resumes.
If your Job Seekers’ resumes are already in electronic format (i.e. as Word
documents), you can easily post resumes just by copying and pasting the content
from those existing documents.
It is a good idea to give each resume a different Title – as it will make it
easier for you to manage them. Also, when an Employer replies to a resume, their
email response will refer to that resume’s Title in the "Subject" line.
Each time that you post a resume, you will be asked to enter an email address.
This is the address that any Employer responses will be sent to. It is also the
address that our notices will be sent to when (after 3 months) we ask you to
renew/revise/delete that resume. Because of this, you will probably want to
insert the email address of the appropriate Job Developer or Employment
Specialist (who can then forward employer inquiries on to the Job Seeker). But,
you do have the option of inserting the Job Seeker’s own email address.
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Using RecruitABILITY as
your own data base
You might want to use RecruitABILITY as a quick way
to find specific candidates from your own Agency. To do that, you will need to
use a consistent keyword in the Title of each resume that you post. Choose this
keyword carefully.
You want to choose a word that will be unique to your Agency. Let’s say you are
the “Career Transition Center”. In selecting a keyword, you wouldn’t want to use
“Career”; because the word “career” is likely to show up in other resumes as
well. “CTC” might work as your keyword; but something like “CTC489” would likely
be better – a combination of letters and numbers (maybe numbers from your street
address?). Let’s say you chose “CTC489”…
You would add “CTC489” to the Title of every resume that your agency posts. i.e.
a Resume Title might read; “Experienced Bookkeeper - CTC489”.
To find all the resumes for your Agency in the
RecruitABILITY data base, you would just have to search your city using
the Keyword “CTC489” – and all of your resumes would show up in the search.
To find all the candidates for a specific job opening, say
Secretary/Receptionist from your Agency, simply search our resume bank by your
city and the words “secretary” “receptionist”. Your search will return the
titles of all resumes in your city that contain the words “receptionist” or
“secretary”. A quick scan of the titles would allow you to pick out the ones
with “CTC489” – your candidates for the job!
If you are collaborating with other Agencies in job placement efforts, you will
likely all want to identify each others’ resumes. To do this, you could either
alert each other to your Agency Keywords – or, better yet, select a second
common Keyword that all of the Agencies would use in addition to their own.
If your collaborative group was the Interagency Placement Forum, you might pick
“IPF01” as a Keyword. Then, you would post your Resumes with “CTC489” (your
Agency Keyword) and “IPF01” (the Keyword for your collaborative group) added to
the titles i.e. “Experienced Bookkeeper - CTC489 IPF01”
Anytime you searched resumes and saw “IPF01” you would know it was from someone
in your Group.
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