Diversity
General - Age-related issues - Deaf students - Disability - Ethnicity - Health - Offenders - Sexual orientation - Social and class issues - Transexual and transgender - Visually Impaired Students - Women and gender issues
General
- Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) - good quality information on a range of diversity and equality issues in the workplace, including age and disability discrimination and equal pay
- Diversity Milkround - aiming to promote awareness of diversity issues in the workplace, and ultimately connect undergraduates and graduates from diverse backgrounds with UK employers. Job vacancies and Jobs by e-mail service.
- Equality & Human Rights Commission - Law, campaigns and useful links (formerly Equal Opportunities Commission)
- Hobsons Get guide to equality & rights. Has sections on age; disability; ethnicity; gender; religion; sexual orientation.
- HOPE for disabled doctors - information about the organisation Help in Obtaining Professional Equality (HOPE), including advice and contacts for doctors with disabilities or chronic illnesses.
- Information from the NHS for doctors with disabilities - includes advice on disclosure, being newly diagnosed, mental health and training or working less than full time.
Age-related issues
- Diversity matters: age - AGCAS pages on age-related issues in the context of handling discrimination includes guidance on finding positive employers, marketing yourself and disclosure; your rights and case studies.
- Employing older workers - guide developed by the Department for Work and Pensions and Age Positive. Hosted on the Business Link website.
- Employers Forum on Age - Independent network of leading employers tackling ageism at work. Newsletters, events and legislation
- Department for Children, Schools and Families - Section on adult learners under the A-Z index.
- Dinosaurs Unlimited - recruitment agency specialising in mature applicants.
- CV FAQs and tips for mature students from the Open University.
Deaf Students
- See our advice pages for deaf students
- Diversity matters: disability - AGCAS pages - includes guidance on finding positive employers, marketing yourself and disclosure; your rights and case studies.
- RNID Employment, Training and Skills Service - contact details for local RNID Employment Advisers who offer advice, support, guidance and assistance with developing skills, finding jobs and arranging work experience
- British Deaf Association - useful links and an online Information Directory
- DeafClub - a deaf internet search engine with good links to deaf related job/career websites
- DEAF UK JOBS very good e-mail list of deaf related jobs (not a website). To join send blank e-mail to: deaf-uk-jobs-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
- Deaf Lawyers - website providing advice and information for deaf lawyers and students interesting in entering the legal profession
- RNID - Royal National Institute for Deaf people. RNID Employment Advisers offer job preparation and provide access to employer contacts and work experience opportunities
- Royal Association for Deaf people - includes job vacancies
Disability
- See our advice pages for students who are dyslexic or who have a disability
- Diversity matters: disability - AGCAS pages - includes guidance on finding positive employers, marketing yourself and disclosure; your rights and case studies.
- Disability Toolkits - A website developed by the University of Manchester Careers Service to help students with disabilites access work experience and placements.
- Skill - the national bureau for students with disabilities. Includes web publication "Get That Job", containing advice on when and how to disclose a disability in applications.
- Leadership Recruitment programme - a partnership between Scope and national employers (public and private sector), offering one year paid work placements to graduates with disabilities
- EmployAbility - advice for disabled people on careers, employment & legislation. Links to relevant sources for advice and support.
- What happens next? - report on destinations of graduates with disabilities (2006)
- Youreable - news, information and loads of jobslists
- Shaw Trust - a national charity who assist graduates with a disability to find employment and apply for jobs. They have strong links with employers and can assist with arranging Access to Work assessments and other means of support. Online version of Job Hunter.
- Association of Disabled Professionals - site for professionals, entrepreneurs, students and self-employed. Can be accessed via audio/no graphics/large text versions
- Jobcentreplus - for specialist services for disabled jobseekers, look under heading 'Customers home'.
- The National Autistic Society's Prospects Employment Service have employment consultants who can support people with autism and Asperger syndrome who are seeking employment.
- Asperger Management - a website giving advice to people with Asperger syndrome working as managers in the workplace.
Ethnicity
- Diversity matters: race - AGCAS pages - includes finding positive employers; marketing yourself; your rights; top tips; contacts.
- Target Chances - free careers events aimed at ethnic minority students. Recent sectors have included investment banking, law (City + regional firms), public sector, property. See the website for dates.
- Black and Asian Grads - website set up by Manchester University Career Service, with vacancies, case studies, job-hunting advice, discussion forum.
- National Mentoring Consortium - supports ethnic minority undergraduates by linking them with mentors
- Windsor Fellowship - programmes to aid ethnic minority students achieve their potential
Health
- Diversity matters: mental health - AGCAS pages - includes finding positive employers; marketing yourself; your rights; top tips; contacts.
- HOPE for disabled doctors - information about the organisation Help in Obtaining Professional Equality (HOPE), including advice and contacts for doctors with disabilities or chronic illnesses.
- Information from the NHS for doctors with disabilities - includes advice on disclosure, being newly diagnosed, mental health and training or working less than full time.
Offenders
- Diversity matters - ex-offenders - AGCAS pages have excellent advice including: understanding the law e.g. rehabilitation periods and when a conviction becomes ‘spent’; finding positive employers; marketing yourself, (on CVs, application forms and at interview) and how and when to disclose your conviction to employers.
- FuSION - Equality and diversity - a helpful section from the University of Westminster careers service website
- Apex Charitable Trust helps people with criminal records obtain appropriate jobs or self-employment by providing skills needed in the labour market and by working with employers.
- NACRO - National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders runs education, training and employment services for people who need extra support in preparing for, finding and holding down a job, including ex-offenders.
- CIPD – Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has policies and guidance for employers on employing ex-offenders.
Resources available in Careers Service Information Centre (File 3A)
Book
- ‘Straight for Work’ - advice on how to give information about criminal records to employers. The book contains examples of disclosure letters and ‘excepted’ jobs.
Leaflets
- Applying for work (with a criminal conviction) - NACRO
- The sorting yourself out guide to Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 – NACRO
Sexual orientation
- Diversity matters: sexual orientation - AGCAS pages - includes guidance on finding positive employers, marketing yourself and disclosure; your rights and case studies.
- FuSION - Equality and diversity - a section from the University of Westminster careers service website: a brilliant site covering all aspects of LGBT issues to do with selecting companies and applying for work.
- Stonewall - national campaigning group working for legal equality and social justice for lesbians, gay men and bisexuals. Includes an extensive recruitment guide for students.
- University
of Bristol Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Society
Social and class issues
- Diversity matters: social and class issues - AGCAS pages - includes guidance on finding positive employers, marketing yourself and disclosure; your rights and case studies.
Transexual & transgender
- Diversity matters: transexual and transgender - AGCAS pages - includes guidance on finding positive employers, marketing yourself and disclosure; your rights and case studies.
Visually Impaired Students
- Diversity matters: disability - AGCAS pages - includes guidance on finding positive employers, marketing yourself and disclosure; your rights and case studies.
- RNIB Student Website - Royal National Institute for the Blind provide advice and support on choosing a career, links to jobs sources for students and graduates.
- Action for Blind People - Helps blind and partially sighted people access a wide range of jobs and career development opportunities, offering employment training, advice and practical support in finding and retaining a job, self-employment and work experience.
- Blind in Business - Provides a range of services to both undergraduates and graduates who are visually impaired to help with job search, making applications, and preparation for interviews and assessment centres.
- Bristol University Library - Assistive Technology Room - details of specialised software, including text-to-speech, Zoomtext, scanner
Women and gender issues
- Diversity matters: gender - AGCAS pages - includes guidance on finding positive employers, marketing yourself and disclosure; your rights (including all the relevant legislation) and case studies.
- Capital Chances - women students in investment banking - free 2 day annual event, see website for dates. There is also a course focussing on women and technology roles in the City.
- Opportunity Now - working and developing activities to improve opportunities for women in the workplace
- Child Care Link - For national and local childcare information
- Equalitec - database of placements for women students in IT, Electronics and Communications fields, both in the UK and abroad