Video Blog
The bad news about success
We give job seekers confidence. We build their social skills. We prepare them for work. Then the disability diminishes and employers wonder what we’ve been doing all these months …
Wisdom for employers on finding staff
The real reason people don’t employ people from minority groups (including people with disability) comes down to education. It’s not that they don’t want to; it’s that they don’t know how to.
The shame of our nation is the way we treat our most vulnerable people
Australians believe in a fair go. So why aren’t we enabling that?
This is wrong – when people can’t afford to buy bread
Inclusion is the first step towards equality. Being included and treated equally make it easier to fill your belly
The value of traineeships and apprenticeships
Job seekers: want a career, instead of a job? Employers: want long-term staff. Try committing to a traineeship or apprenticeship.
Turn perceived barriers into real benefits
Through disability, people develop skills that employers value.
So easy to blame the victim
Why do we get away with saying to marginalised people, ‘Look, you don’t have the resources, but we want you to throw yourself against the rock of unemployment… repeatedly, until you’re bruised and battered…’
Why it is better to get a job than go bowling
With a properly paid job comes financial freedom, confidence and social skills, which leads to independence. So why muck around with recreation first?
Why employment first for school leavers
‘Job vacant. Experience required. Enquire within.’ How can you apply without said experience?
Why good does staff are leaving the industry in droves
Why do we get away with saying to marginalised people, ‘Look, you don’t have the resources, but we want you to throw yourself against the rock of unemployment… repeatedly, until you’re bruised and battered…’
The trouble with assessments
Deficit-based assessments are easy to administer, but don’t serve people well.
Passion within disability services
‘I used to get into some great fights!,’ says Martin Wren, CEO of NOVA Employment. In this vlog, Martin laments the loss of passion for real change or, indeed, for defending the status quo.
