Disability Awareness & Confidence

Dean Askin, Communications Strategist Filed under Disability Awareness & Confidence A few days ago I was analyzing statistics from ODEN’s Disability Myth Quiz, for an internal report about our National Disability Employment Awareness Month campaign. And the analysis was disturbing, to say the least. Over 200 people — 237, to be exact — did the…

Dean Askin, Communications Strategist Filed under Disability Awareness & Confidence, Inclusive Hiring Second in a two-part series   In 2021, there’s more awareness, conversation and action on disability-inclusive recruiting and hiring of talent, than ever before. This is a good thing. For job seekers who have a disability; businesses; and the economy alike. Numerous research…

Dean Askin, filed under Disability Awareness and Confidence, Inclusive Hiring In 2021, we’re at a watershed moment in history: There’s more commitment to, action on and conversation about disability inclusion in the business sector than ever before. There’s a significant “but,” however. In its 2020 The Global Economics of Disability report, Toronto-based The Return on…

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Dean Askin, Communications StrategistFiled under In the News, Disability Awareness and Confidence, Inclusive Hiring A new RBC Economics report published July 12 is the latest reinforcement that businesses must access the disability talent pool to remain successful down the road. The report notes some key things in 2021 that are affecting the labour shortage in…

As we start off the second year of the coronavirus pandemic, businesses in some sectors are still fighting for survival while others are growing. The pandemic crisis will end eventually. The world will bounce back. Just like it did a century ago at the end of the Spanish Influenza. Coming out of this pandemic, business…

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