Costa Mesa, California Oct 8, 2018 (Issuewire.com) - October is National Disability Employment Awareness month, and Oct 25th brings the first accessible online job fair for people with disabilities offering; Speech to Text Captioning, Closed Captioning, and Sign Language interpreters to better communicate between recruiters and job seekers.
ABILITYJobFair.org is the newest technology to be used for an online career fair - helping companies find talented job seekers with disabilities. There are many career fair websites, but none that encompass accessibility features to help job seekers with disabilities— from blindness, deaf, and speech disabilities. Online ease of access reduces difficulties attending a typical job fair with traffic, parking, and waiting in line to meet a recruiter.
This innovative online platform includes live face-to-face interaction; speech to text in real time, screen reader compatibility, text-based messaging and if a person is deaf there will be an ASL interpreter available during the interview.
Federal contractors and subcontractors have new compliance regulations to maintain their contracts, paid for by tax dollars. “I think hiring people with disabilities shouldn’t just be a Federal compliance issue. It should be a talent issue. It should be an I-want-the-best-person-for-the-job issue. And we wanted to break down as many barriers as we could find to help recruiters find an untapped talent pool.” said Lia Martirosyan, co-founder of ABILITY Corps, a non-profit promoting employment and new approaches of equal access for all. "It is vital for everyone to be able to interview for a job and communicate in the best method of their choice to create a more human interaction."
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