Job searching for students with a disability

Are you facing challenges in your career due to a physical, mental or other impairment? This page provides information focused on career support for students with a disability.

Workshop series

Once a year, Student Career Services organises a workshop series for students and recent graduates who experience a distance to the labour market caused due to a physical or mental impairment (this may vary between ASS, RSI, chronical fatigue, long lasting problems due to an accident etc.).

During this workshop you will:

  • Meet like-minded students in a similair situation
  • Learn about rules and regulation in place
  • Learn about employers' inclusion policy and practices
  • Discover your personal talents
  • Increase your self confidence and focus on what you can (rather than what you can't)
  • Learn to brand yourself to the labour market
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  • Helpful organisations within the WUR:

    • Giftedness: The project Giftedness has been initiated based on the request of Wageningen University & Research students and teachers to pay more attention to intellectual giftedness and high sensitivity among students. The project is financially supported by the Informal Student Support Network.
    • NoWURries: Student Support Group For students who feel prevented from fully enjoying student life because of different reasons. A possibility to meet up with like-minded students and share what you feel and discover your are not alone.

  • Helpful organisations outside the WUR:

    • SWOM: Studeren en Werken Op Maat: SWOM Foundation assists young professionals with employment disabilities in finding a full-fledged position, matching your talents and qualities. Annually, SWOM Foundation guides over 200 young professionals to an internship, traineeship or sustainable position with one of their 90 leading partner organizations.
    • ITVitae: Mediation, training and coaching for ICT specialists: Organisation that helps young people with autism/giftedness regardless of prior education.
    • De Normaalste Zaak: De Normaalste Zaak is a growing network of more than 700 companies and organizations working together to build an inclusive labor market.
    • Ctalents: is a community for people with audio and visual impairment involved in job coaching and talent matching with employers
    • De Koekfabriek: an organization that offers jobs for people with a labour market disadvantage
    • Working in the Dutch central government with a disability: Team Diversity & Inclusion, part of the Ministry of the Interior, mediates and supervises people with disabilities for the central government. We take into account your talents, abilities and your education and look for work that suits you well. Together with you and your future employer, we determine the work you will do.
    • Employment agency Autitalent: Specializes in matching people with autism to the labour market.
    • AuticafĂ©: Organises network events in Wageningen, for (young) adults with a form of autism.

  • Other interesting links

    • Sometimes you can use some extra support during your transition to work. You may be faced with dilemmas such as: do I mention my disability in a job application or not? Or maybe you do not know how best to deal with your disability during your work. There are also several persons and/or organizations that may be able to help you with this. Find more useful information and links to useful websites about working with a disability on the website of Hoger onderwijs toegankelijk: Working with disability or support needs.
    • Het Doelgroepregister – Banenafspraak: Het Doelgroepregister (the target group register) is a register containing people who fall under the target group of the jobs agreement (banenafspraak). This jobs agreement is an agreement between the Cabinet and employers to provide additional jobs for people with labor disabilities. These are people who have difficulty finding or keeping work due to, for example, illness or disability. UWV manages the target group register. With the data from the target group register, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment can check whether employers are providing enough extra jobs. Employers can look up whether you are in the target group register.

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