The Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services has provided in-depth and up-to-date information for HE students graduates over many years. Their Disability Task Group focuses on careers resources for disabled students and graduates on looking for work, disclosing disabilities in job applications, attending interviews and much more!

For more information see:

• AGCAS Disability Task Group Blog - Advice for Students

For job sites, see:

• AGCAS Disability Task Group Blog - 8 Job Searching Sites for Disabled Students

Psychometric tests:

• For disabled candidates, there may be multiple challenges when completing a psychometric test. This could mean you are unable to complete these tests to the best of your ability, without adjustments. AGCAS (Association of Graduate Careers Services) have produced a guide that provides advice and guidance to ace that test!
  
  Psychometric tests - a guide for disabled candidates [PDF]

More people from a wider variety of backgrounds are now entering higher education making for a diverse graduate labour market.

Advice and information is available from the following organisations to help those students who feel they would benefit from specialised support to enter the graduate job market.

• AGCAS - supporting disabled applicants into graduate schemes
• AllAboutLaw - break into a legal career; courses for under-represented communities
• DirectGov - employment support and government work schemes
• Disability Jobsite - includes employer database, CV and interview advice
• Diversity Dashboard - jobs, events, recruiters and EDI updates
• Diversity Jobsite - specialise in recruitment for BAME students/graduates
• EmployAbility - support with the transition from education to employment
• Ethnic Jobsite - jobsite bridging the gap between employers and ethnic minorities
• Inclusive Companies National Diversity Network - inclusive jobs and advice for all backgrounds
• Inclusive Graduates - work with undergraduates and professionals from under-represented groups
• Leonard Cheshire Change 100 Internships - includes paid summer placements
• My Plus Students' Club - for students with disabilities or long-term health conditions
• National Careers Service - career and job support for people with a disability
• NACRO - support for young people who have been involved with crime
• Neurodiversity in Business - the neurodiversity charity
• Prospects - Neurodiversity in the workplace
• Rare - specialists in diversity graduate recruitment
• Restless - age diverse employers across the UK
• Scottish ADHD Coalition - ADHD and employment
• Stonewall - support for the LGBTQ+ community
• TargetJobs - equality and diversity in graduate recruitment
• Uprising - leadership, mentoring and employability programmes for young people from diverse backgrounds
• Whizz-Kidz Employability - working with employers to provide support, training, placements and internships for young wheelchair users.

Disability Rights UK

Disability Rights UKOffer advice and support to disabled people who are studying or wish to study at any level on full-time or part-time education or training courses if

• the course is in England and
• they are over 16

The student helpline is sponsored by the Snowdon Trust.

Disability Rights UK - Disabled Students Helpline

Disabled Students' Allowance

If you have a disability, specific learning difficulty or long-term medical condition you may be eligible for funding from the Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA)

SCOPE

Student loans can help with course fees and living costs while you study. You can apply for funding to cover extra costs if you are disabled. This includes Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) and bursaries from universities or charitable trusts. Unlike student loans, you do not have to pay these back.

SCOPE - Funding for Disabled Students in Higher Education

Snowdon Trust

The charity provide grants to physically disabled and sensory impaired students studying in the UK - in further or higher education or those training towards employment.

Their grants help cover additional disability-related study costs that students incur and where available statutory funding does not cover them. Costs include vital support such as sign language interpreters, people to take notes, computers, specialist software, wheelchairs or special accommodation and equipment. Further details: snowdontrust.org

UCAS

If you have a disability, learn about additional funding you’re eligible for, to top up what you get through student finance or a Disabled Students’ Allowance:

UCAS - Scholarships, Grants and Bursaries: Disabled Students

The University of Bedfordshire is committed to celebrating and supporting all students’ and graduates’ identities, and we understand that career exploration and advancement are often influenced by someone’s identities and background.

The links below offer information to members of the LGBTQ+ community

• Prospects: Getting a job as an LGBTQ+ gradudate
• Proud Employers: Jobs with LGBTQ+ inclusive employers
• Vercida: Jobs and careers for LGBTQ+
• LGBT Jobs: LGBT+ Inclusive employers
• Jobs4LGBTQplus: Find a job that has pride in YOU
• myGwork: the largest global business community of LGBTQ+ professionals, graduates, inclusive employers and anyone who believes in workplace equality

• Mind

• Action on Hearing Loss
• Blind in Business

• Ambitious about Autism
• British Dyslexia Association
• Dyslexia Action
• Dyspraxia Foundation
• The National Autistic Society