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Los Angeles, CA – In
the aftermath of September 11th, our economy is rapidly
recovering. Diversity Employment Source provides assistance to
businesses seeking
qualified candidates with out the high cost of headhunters or placement
agencies. Diversity Employment Source (DES)
is a consortium of Public and Private sector organizations that
work cooperatively to meet the needs of the community. DES will launch
their website on Tuesday, September 10, 2002 at
9:00
am.
DES
is doing its part to rebuild the economy.
DES provides a vehicle for
businesses to post jobs at no cost, which allows them to avoid use of
sites with exorbitant fees. In addition, many applicants
meet your companies desire to be ethnically and gender diverse
but beyond unusual diversity our pool includes applicants with
disabilities (the largest untapped minority group). People with
disabilities are an overlooked candidate pool, not because they can’t
work but because of fears employers have about hiring them. Nine years
after the Americans
with Disabilities Act took effect, only one-third of
individuals with Disabilities in America are employed even though more
than two-thirds of unemployed people with disabilities say they would
like to work. We must turn this untapped pool into an ocean of
opportunity. The job turnover rate for people with disabilities is
20%, compared to a 150% turnover rate in non-disabled employees.
After Carolina Fine Snacks in Greensboro, NC, started hiring people with
disabilities, absenteeism dropped from 20% to less than 5%; and
tardiness dropped from 30% of staff to zero. Accommodations
for workers with disabilities are not as costly as many businesses
believe. The majority of
people with disabilities (70%) don't need any special equipment or
accommodation to perform their job. According to the Job Accommodation
Network, the average accommodation costs $50 and the majority (75%) cost
nothing. The cost of accommodating qualified workers with disabilities
is forty times less than the cost of training and replacing workers.
DESlive.com
Website Launch
DES
is a consortium of government, non-profit and private sector
organizations, who work collectively to educate, inform and empower
businesses to tap into a qualified applicant pool representative of all
aspects of diversity. DES developed innovative programs to assist people
with disabilities to build careers, and assist the businesses who hire
them. These programs include:
¨Fast
Track Job Order: To
save you money on expensive ads, headhunters or other for profit
avenues, DES created a form you may fax or email your job description to
us on. Your job order will be emailed out per your instructions for
follow-up to our databank of qualified job seekers.
(Click Here for Form)
¨Positive/Directed
Recruitments: DES
will assist you to meet your hiring needs by providing a pool of
pre-screened candidates who meet your skill requirements at one of our
sites, and or your place of business.
¨Diversity
Career Expos:
Thursday, May 1, 2003, is our next
Annual Cinco de Mayo
Career Expo – “Nation’s largest diversity Expo” per AAPD. This
annual event is targeted to employ qualified candidates with
disabilities. Expo 2002 boasted 4000 job seekers and 95 business
participants. Register: ( Printable /
Online )
¨Seminars:
On HR issues at no cost so that you don’t have to pay an accounting
firm or other agency for these valuable resources: high quality at no
cost.
¨Windmills
(Sensitivity Training):
To help your staff feel comfortable working with people with
disabilities. There are several interactive experiential modules to
choose from.
¨Quarterly
Newsletter: To
assist you to stay current on disability issues, upcoming events,
successful stories, and obtain tips/resources from the “Dear Deb”
column.
Daryn
Smith, Employment Coordinator and one of the founders of Diversity
Employment Source says, “Disability is a civil rights issue. Separate
but equal is never equal. People with disabilities are able to work,
want to work and DES is here to provide business with the resources and
information they need to hire qualified candidates and in the process
improve their bottom line.”
For
additional information on DES, please call Deborah Cujino-Deras @
(310)-348-0985 or visit us on the web at www.deslive.com.
Media
Advisory
For
Immediate Release Contact: Deborah
Cujiño-Deras
Tuesday,
September 2, 2002
Diversity
Employment Source Launches Deslive.com
A
website that allows businesses to post jobs and recruit qualified
candidates from the largest untapped minority group
Who: Diversity Employment Source
What:
Launch of a New
Website
Designed
to allow businesses to obtain information and resources about hiring
people with disabilities and the ability to post job leads to tap into
the biggest minority group.
When:
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
Where: www.Deslive.com
Why:
Viable Untapped
Resource in
Today’s
Volatile
Economy
For
additional press information, contact Daryn Smith (213) 713-7791
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