Great Britain: employers launch protocol removing disabled candidates’ recruitment barriers

Adjust recruitment.  The EFD is an association of employers who work on facilitating recruitment and businesses with people with a disability.  On October 20th, affiliated employers met and launched a protocol imposing new requirements for the recruitment agencies hired by these organizations.  The goal is to facilitate the recruitment process for disabled workers: facilitate trial periods, adapt interviews for applicants who are at a disadvantage with traditional assessment methods, give feedback to the disabled candidates who were not retained, train recruitment agencies’ staff to their statutory requirements for recruiting disabled people…  indeed, there are many obstacles disabled candidates face during recruitment: some agencies or employers insist that candidates use online applications where there is no option to explain how a disability might have affected academic achievements, while some fail to consider whether or not it is physically possible for people to attend interviews.  Some large businesses, including Ernst & Young, Cisco, Remploy or Pinsent Masons, have already signed this protocol, designed after consulting recruitment agencies and employers.