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News Release from: Jobshop UK
Edited by the Marketingservicestalk Editorial
Team on 13 February 2008
Embrace diversity to fill those gaps
Tracey Wood, Director of Jobshop UK, argues that managers should think more widely when looking to fill vacancies.
Many disabled people are unable to get jobs, not necessarily because they lack the skills, but because managers charged with recruitment are unable to tick every box in the health profile About 600,000 people in the UK suffer with disabilities, which can range from epilepsy to dyslexia
This article was originally published on Marketingservicestalk on 9 Jan 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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They are often employed in small and medium-sized enterprises, yet many more are unable to get jobs because managers are unable to think laterally about practically altering the job to accommodate them.
Old-fashioned managers looking for easy, quick-fix solutions to a fill a job - for instance, hiring people they know, dismissing out-of-hand disabled or older people, failing to give the young and inexperienced a chance to prove themselves, or ignoring applicants from abroad.
Research shows that by 2010, people over the age of 45 will represent more than 40 per cent of the population in the UK.
Employment agencies and companies may soon have to change their attitudes to age discrimination.
This year new Ageism legislation will be introduced and when this is adopted, the tribunals that currently make large awards for race and sex discrimination will be able to make similar recompense to employees wrongfully dismissed on the grounds of age.
Companies that have increased the number of their employees who are over 50 have found that absenteeism and turnover rates have fallen.
More and more employers in the public and private sector are convinced by the business case of employing a mixed age workforce, which has proven to provide employers with a wider available skills base, improved productivity, better morale, increased customer loyalty, greater market share and increased shareholder wealth.
With the employment rate in Poole and Bournemouth the lowest in the country at just 1.7 per cent and with 50 per cent of the population becoming retired within the next eight years, employers are going to have to consider the as yet untapped employment market.
This means consideration will have to be given to school leavers, the disabled and older workers.
There is little doubt that to succeed in recruiting staff for your business in the 21st century, diversity will be a necessity not a choice.
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