Ontario Corporate Training Centre

The Ontario Corporate Training Centre (OCTC) is a new project designed to empower business with the tools, knowledge, resources, and confidence needed to embrace disability inclusive hiring, and foster diverse workplaces.

Project Objectives:

• Educating Businesses: We will empower businesses with insights on why disability inclusive hiring should be a cornerstone of their recruitment strategy, not only for fostering diversity but also for driving business growth and success.
• Enhancing Employer Confidence: The OCTC will provide sector-specific training and resources to strengthen employers’ confidence in hiring people who have a disability. It focuses on building knowledge about human resources best practices, workplace inclusion, accommodation and appropriate legislation and regulations.
• Strengthening Relationships: We will build and strengthen the relationships between businesses and Employment Service Providers expanding access to the disability talent pool.
• Support Recruitment Structures: Our project will support the development and implementation of recruitment, application, hiring and promotion structures that prioritize accessibility and inclusion.
• Specialization For Impact: We will survey sector associations and host focus groups to tailor our learning modules to specific industry needs, ensuring greater impact and identifying future learning modules.
• Evaluation and Knowledge Dissemination: Careful evaluation of project outcomes and sharing of findings, best practices and lessons learned with a wider network of stakeholders.

Currently, the OCTC team is in the phase of learning and understanding how they can support businesses, on their journey to disability inclusion. We invite you to participate in our brief survey because your valuable insights on recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and retaining workers who have a disability will greatly inform our training and services.