Disability History Month: Careers resources & events

To celebrate Disability History Month (14th November - 20th December), we have gathered a number of Careers resources and events designed to support our disabled and neurodivergent students.

Articles

Career Discovery (UCL login required) hosts a variety of articles that discuss the aspects of disability and neurodivergence as part of job applications and working:

• Psychometric tests – a UCL guide for disabled and neurodivergent applicants

UCL Disability series:

• Organisations providing support, funding and legal advice
• Key job sites
• Sample graduate schemes, internships and work placements
• Mentoring opportunities
• Employability support from UCL
• Reasonable adjustments at interview and in the workplace
• Disclosure: Telling Future Employers about Non-Visible Health Conditions
• Mental health and starting work

UCL neurodiversity series:

• Asking for reasonable adjustments
• Discussing your strengths with employers

Events

If you prefer a more interactive environment to digest in key information about disability, neurodivergence and the work place, we warmly invite all UCL students and recent alumni (who have graduated within the past three years from UCL) to come along to one of our events on this subject. 

• Neurodiversity in the workplace – celebrating your strengths and thinking about the adjustments you might need

Tuesday 19 November, 4pm-5:30pm, Online

Are you a neurodivergent student thinking about employment or work experience?  Neurodivergent students have many strengths that employers are looking for. 

• Career Essentials: Discussing Disabilities or Health Conditions with Employers

Tuesday 26 November, 1pm-2pm, Online

We will discuss questions we are often asked, such as:

• Do you have to tell an employer about a disability or health condition?
• What about a mental health condition?
• When is a good time to raise the subject?
• What might you say?
• How can you convey the positives to employers?

Additional and enhanced support

• Disability webpage: Be sure to check out our disability webpage for more resources available throughout Careers, UCL at-large, and external parties.
• Disability newsletter: We also offer an opt-in newsletter, which acts as a one stop-shop for disaibility news and resources available to you.
• Careers Extra: Our dedicated enhanced support programme for underepresented groups, Careers Extra offers an alumni mentoring scheme, priority access for some Careers events, and so much more.