Helping employers create more inclusive workplaces.

This Canada-wide awareness campaign aims to increase employer awareness about how people with disabilities are a talented part of the workforce, and provides resources to help employers tap into this talent pool during their search for skilled workers.

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Free Employer Toolkit

The toolkit offers a variety of informative tools. Learn about the skills people with disabilities bring to the workplace and use our ‘how-to’ resources, that provide practical tips and strategies on successful recruitment, hiring, inclusion and retention of people with disabilities.
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Providing written material in large print is an accommodation for people who have low vision.

Technology makes these workplace accommodations easy.
  • Most people with low vision have an easier time reading bold white letters on a black background.
  • Avoid using small Caps or all Caps, as this makes reading more difficult.
  • Using a clear font with appropriate spacing is just as important as the font size.
  • Labels and signs should be clearly lettered using contrasting colours.

Be sure to keep all walkways clear of obstructions. Inform your employees with low vision (and your customers) of any physical changes, such as rearranged furniture or moved equipment.

Important: Push chairs in at a table when you are done using them, this keeps them from being a tripping hazard.
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Banking on Inclusion

Guided by the Employment Equity Act and the Accessible Canada Act , it works to help financial institutions enhance their hiring practices, fostering greater accessibility, inclusion, and equitable opportunities for people with disabilities.
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Funded in part by the Government of Canada’s Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities
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Accessibility Statement
Hire for Talent is committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience. This website was designed to conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 level AA requirements. The website was last updated in June 2023. If you encounter any accessibility issues, we welcome your feedback. Please contact us at: info@hirefortalent.ca.
Land Acknowledgement
The Community Business Development Corporation (CBDC) Restigouche respectfully acknowledges that the Hire for Talent project was developed in Mi'gma'gi, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’gmaq. We also recognize the Wolastoqiyik and Peskotomuhkati peoples as the past, present and future caretakers of this land. This territory is encompassed by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship, which remain in effect today. Although developed on this land, the Hire for Talent project extends across the territories of various Indigenous peoples throughout Turtle Island.