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Students with Disabilities

Access to our services

The Careers Centre provides a range of services for students currently enrolled at the University of Sydney. If you have a disability which makes it difficult for you to access any of our services or any of the employer-related events that we organise, please contact us on 9351 3481 so we can discuss alternative ways of assisting you.

Resources

We would also like to make you aware of various resources that can assist you.

  • For information about how, when and whether to disclose your disability to an employer, there is a web site called 'Choosing your Path. Disclosure: It's a Personal Decision'. The site also has useful links. Click here to go to that site www.uws.edu.au/rdlo/disclosure
  • A recent initiative of the Commonwealth Government is the JobAccess website and call centre. JobAccess is a one-stop-information-shop website and advice service for people with disability and employers. For more information, visit http://www.jobaccess.gov.au.
  • There is an organisation called “Employers Making a Difference (The Australian Employers’ Network on Disability)” and one of services they offer on their website is a vacancies section. For more information go to http://www.emad.asn.au They also have an Employer Directory on their site. The directory provides a useful list of employers who encourage applications from people with disabilities. Some of these are employers who offer graduate programs and actively recruit on our campus.
  • Two paid work experience programs run by “Employers Making a Difference” are “Stepping into Law” and “Stepping into Banking”. They both offer paid work experience to students in their penultimate or final year and applications close in April of each year. For more information, click here Stepping into Law or Stepping into Banking.
  • The “Willing and Able Mentoring (WAM) Program matches tertiary students who have a disability with Mentors in leading organisations in the students’ field of interest for a series of approximately eight 1 to 2-hour discussion meetings during Semester 2 of any given year. For more information and useful links, see
    http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/content/view/full/318

Disability Services Unit

If you are a current or prospective student with a disability who wants to know about what services are available at this university to assist you, please go to the Disability Services Unit web site at http://www.usyd.edu.au/stuserv/disability/index.shtml