Recruitment That Works provides a structured recruitment framework to employers who want to attract jobseekers in to their workforce from disadvantaged backgrounds, particularly those who are long-term unemployed and disabled. It also offers employers the opportunity to review their current recruitment practices, as well as their arrangements with organizations helping people with disabilities in to work, which may be unstructured or ad-hoc.

Benefits of Recruitment That Works include:

• Demonstrates an employer's commitment to recruiting people with disabilities, and informs the development of effective recruitment policies.

• Ensures that recruitment processes are accessible to people with disabilities, by providing an alternative to telephone interviews for people whose impairments affect the way they communicate by phone.

• Provides employers with access to a source of job applicants they may not previously have considered, or attracted.

• Makes good business sense to be seen as an employer with good recruitment practices that attract people with disabilities and other diverse groups.

• Provides the employer with a range of support and cultural awareness to help them recruit and retain people with disabilities.

• Complements the disability recruitment standards identified by the Forum

• Provides the employer with access to a disability support network that can advise on a range of recruitment and retention issues.

Companies who have benefited from using the Recruitment that Works framework include Centrica, CIS, IKEA, Barclays, Granada and the Welsh Assembly.

For more information contact:

John Warburton

Tel: +44 (0)161 873 1383.

Email: john.warburton@jobcentreplus.gsi.gov.uk