The Link: http://bit.ly/d78aSW

Gerry Crispin alerted me to the work of an Intern to Shaker Consulting Group in Cleveland, Ohio a few weeks ago. Joe Murphy, a principal of that firm.

Shaker Consulting Group developed an excellent survey of 29 questions that delves into the details of what a candidate might reasonably ‘expect’ from an employer.

The results will be public and not sold nor used for marketing. They have about 200 responses but the ‘n’ is too small given the various ways they want to cut the data and getting to jobseekers is not a trivial task.

I find the cause to be a good one and anything we can do to assist the job seeker experience is incumbent upon us to try and to pass the word as widely as possible.

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This article was originally featured on ERE

I feel so lucky that I am still working after 27 years with it and love every day I am alive.
Jon Gundersgaard

Yesterday, I featured an interview of Jon Gundersgaard, a thirty year veteran of the HR/Staffing Industry. Jon’s compelling life story as someone who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and has been in a wheel chair since 1995 initiated a discussion with friend and mentor, Gerry Crispin, Chief Navigator at CareerxRoads. Jon’s depiction of a life well lived, and intense productivity as a valued member of his staffing organization; missing work only 6 months in the last 30 years was provacative. Here was a perfect personification of an industrious, talented element of today’s workforce who served as a critical member of his team and was a productive contributor to society as a whole – despite a serious malady. As a paraplegic, his disability was a sidenote, to an otherwise determined approach to keeping his sourcing and recruiting skills up-to-date with the latest techniques and tools available. The story speaks likewise to a broader workforce effected by blindness, deafness, and other differently-abled categories.

A few days after meeting Jon, the thought of such inspirational people weighed on my mind at the airport as I was returning from the ERE Conference. I texted initial inquiries to Gerry in reference to other individuals within our industry with handicaps that have yet to be highlighted. The text evolved into an in-depth dialogue that broached related topics such as the candidate side of the equation; Wounded Veterans, deaf or blind software engineers, etc.

Gerry’s interest also stemmed from a gig he did with Mark with their client, National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at Rochester Institute of Technology under an IBM grant nearly a decade ago. NTID graduates were, at the time, not benefiting by the run up in interest in hiring new engineering and computer science majors. They conducted focus groups with recruiters, students and working graduates and identified several choke points in the recruiting process that unintentionally filtered disabled candidates out.

As the saying goes, “the Rest is History” – The end result was Gerry’s idea to develop a survey with Mark Mehler which was launched this week, designed to answer the following question:

‘Are Employers who are approached by jobseekers with requisite skills, experience and knowledge but who happen to have a disability, prepared to assess their ability (and not be distracted by their disability) given the decade long shift to digital protocols?’

To be succinct, “How prepared are you for jobseekers who happen to have a disability?”

Corporate EEO statements routinely professes to focus on hire-ability and not be distracted by disability. The following survey developed by Gerry Crispin and Mark Mahler, attempts to see what this “ground floor” looks like to someone with a disability.

We invite Corporate Staffing Leaders and teams to participate in this worthy cause to learn more about industry efforts address Disability Candidate Experiences. Your answers to questions about how your firm accommodates disabled prospects in the HIRING PROCESS (not the job itself) will absolutely be kept anonymous.

CareerXroads will be the only one with access to your contact info. Your firm will NOT ever be listed as having participated. We require your contact info however to ensure a) no duplicates, b) a representative sample is acquired and c) to invite you to a private webinar that will share the results before they are published.

Feel free to contact Gerry Crispin at CareerXroads to address any questions or concerns you may have.

Your assistance in enhancing the viral reach of this effort is to be commended. The special nature of this endeavor has attracted the combined forces of Arbita ACES, Starr Tincup, ERE, John Sumser, and Peopleclick. We thank everyone, including you our audience for doing your part in forwarding a link on this story to your respective Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter etc accounts. Old school email to your fellow co-workers and staffing leadership is always a sure fire way to attract with precision as well.

All my best
Dave Mendoza

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Everyone who reads SixDegrees… knows I am a huge fan of Gerry Crispin, Chief Navigator at CAREERXROADS He has been a personal mentor and friend of mine, and from a broader perspective – a staffing industry legend without equal. He lights up any room he walks into with his sincere warmth, sage words and ever modest demeanor for someone of his stature. Few practice friendship so well, and with so little ado, and yet with such impact among past generations and present. He is the person who calls to check on how your family is doing, the one who sets you straight, and the person who makes a dining experience rich in learning experience.

Gerry Crispin and his business partner, Mark Mehler, are the personalities behind CareerXroadsâ„¢ and the CareerXroads Colloquiumâ„¢. Between the two of them, they have worked for more than 50 years in career planning and placement, contract recruiting, executive search, recruitment advertising and human resource management.

Since 1994, these Internet Recruiting Pioneers have formed a thriving international consulting practice that works closely with many of the world’s most competitive corporations to better understand and adopt cutting-edge, recruiting technology solutions to their staffing strategy and process.. They are experts in recruiting technology methods and also known as seasoned speakers around the world on Best Recruiting Practices.

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Dave Manaster, CEO, ERE Media, Inc., always promotes an innovative format at each of his events. Last week, at ERE Expo in Washington DC, Gerry Crispin, Chief Navigator, CAREERXROADS, moderated one of the most interesting panel discussions I have seen to date at last week’s ERE Expo. Top graduate students got on stage to provide the general assembly a first-hand look at what the newest entrants into the workforce want out of a job, a career, and a life.

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