Survey for Vancouver Island Employers Have you hired someone with a disability before? Yes No Not Sure Was it a positive experience? Yes No What made it a positive experience?What made it a negative experience?What do you find makes it challenging hiring someone with a disability (and please be honest!) I hired someone with a disability before and they did not work out so I don’t feel comfortable doing so again. I feel like there is stigma around people with disabilities, and that stigma has led me to think that people with disabilities won’t perform as well as a non-disabled person might It seems complicated hiring someone with a disability because they might call in a lot or need adaptions Because I don’t know a lot about hiring someone with a disability, I fear I might do something wrong and face potential legal implications I’m not even sure where to start. It is such new territory for me! I don’t know much about disabilities and I am afraid of insulting someone accidentally so I would rather just avoid it altogether I don’t know what my rights are and what their rights are I don’t know what I am allowed to ask in an interview I don’t find there are any challenges in hiring people with disabilities! Other Other - What do you find makes it challenging hiring someone with a disability? Where would you like more information? What my rights and duties are as an employer Ideas on how to adapt my workplace to be more inclusive Information on government hiring incentives for employers and how I can use them More information on what is the appropriate language to use What I am and am not allowed to ask in interviews What I am and am not allowed to ask to a staff member How to restructure positions to save my company money or boost sales How to promote that I am an inclusive employer External benefits like awards and promotion within the community for being designated as an inclusive employer What people with disabilities qualify for when they apply (Such as work clothing, transportation supports, wage subsidies, short term training certificates (such as food safe), other longer term training options, etc.) and how that can benefit them and the business? Benefits of hiring people with disabilities Other Other - Where would you like more information? What other supports would be helpful? Having somebody in person (or Zoom) so I can ask more specific questions about hiring/retaining people with disabilities within my business Having a specialist come on to help get the individual started Having a specialist come on and help with Ergonomic adaptions for someone who tells me they have a disability Having a specialist lead me to where I can find information about labour laws and legal rights Have a specialist to consult with on how to customize, adapt or restructure positions. Having an updated community resource list for when I can see my staff are struggling with such things as disability related barriers, mental health, or personal issues. Help with creating inclusive job postings Other Other - What other supports would be helpful? If you had the above information and supports that you selected, would you feel more confident hiring someone with a disability? Yes No Please explain what you would need?If there was a website designed to give you free training with a certificate for local Vancouver Island Employers, would you take it (and please be honest!)? Yes- definitely! I have been wanting this information No- it sounds good but I don’t have the time No- it's not something I am interested in Other Other - If there was a website designed to give you free training with a certificate for local Vancouver Island Employers, would you take it (and please be honest!)? - Other How many hours would you ideally be able to put into the training 2 hours 4 hours A Day Less than 2 hours Are there ideas you would like to add that would be helpful for you? Or be helpful in the design of the website?PhoneThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Are you interested in becoming an Inclusive Employer? Apply as Employer
