Explore Accessabililty-focused Career Tips
Veterans Hiring Initiatives:
- Recruit Military - This site aims to connect veterans with employers and includes a section of articles that are aimed at helping veterans market themselves during their search.
- Hire Vets Medallion Program - The HIRE Vets Medallion Award is the only federal-level veterans’ employment award that recognizes a company or organization’s commitment to veteran hiring
- Military Friendly - investigates and identifies the organizations whose commitment to serving the military and veteran community is comprehensive in scope and meaningful in terms of actual outcomes and impact
- The Value of a Veteran - The purpose of this group is to connect military service members (Active, Guard, Reserve, retired, or separated) who are looking for civilian employment opportunities with employers who value and support military service.
- Veteran Recruiting Center - You can attend career fairs, webinars, workshops, network with peers, video interview, apply for jobs and much more.
- Hire Heroes USA - Non-profit with the goal of helping military personnel transition into civilian life; includes resource center and job board.
How to highlight your military service and skills in your civilian resumes and cover letters:
- Careeronestop - Includes database that links civilian jobs to your military job and information on the job search process, all tailored to veterans.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against a qualified individual with a disability with regard to job application processes, hiring, training, employment privileges, advancement, firing, and more. This includes someone with a documented physical or mental impairment limiting at least one major life activity; it involves visible disabilities like paralysis but also invisible ones such as anxiety disorders, diabetes, or epilepsy. Self-identifying or disclosing a disability to a potential employer is a personal decision, and it is not illegal to withhold the information if that's your preference. However, if reasonable accommodations, which employers legally must provide, are necessary for you to complete the functions of the position or application process, you may need to self-disclose a disability to receive an accommodation.
- Job Accommodation Network - New professionals with disabilities should carefully think through what is needed to function optimally on the job prior to the hiring process. Most accommodations cost less than $500. Employers can receive tax incentives for accommodation costs.
- Job Applicants and the Americans with Disabilities Act - This link provides valuable info on discussing disability and accommodation with a potential employer, being qualified for a job, reasonable accommodations, etc.
- American Association for the Advancement of Science - Entry Point! Entry Point! is the signature program of the AAAS Project on Science, Technology, and Disability. It was designed to increase the diversity of the science and engineering workforce by involving students and scientists with disabilities throughout all STEM education and career pathways.
- Neurodiversity @ Work – collection of employers committed to neurodiversity-focused hiring initiative
- abilityone.gov - helps people who are blind or have significant disabilities find jobs. Job openings are with nonprofit agencies nationwide.
University of Arkansas resources:
- University of Arkansas International Students and Scholars Office - International Students and Scholars provides immigration education and support to University of Arkansas students, scholars, and their families.
Job boards:
- Going Global Database - (FREE for all UARK students when logging in the first time from a computer on campus) The H1B Plus database contains all 400,000-plus DOL H1B records and allows for searches based on industry, job title, company, location, wages, and number of applications.
- H1B Visa Jobs - Search jobs with filters such as experience level, career level, etc.
- Global Jobs - is a job board for international, ngo, non-profit, government, and development careers.
- H1B Data - Job board and salary info with filters for companies, jobs, and cities.
- H1B Visa Jobs - Search jobs with filters such as experience level, career level, etc.
Sponsor information:
- USCIS H1B employer data hub - Data on employers who have submitted petitions to employ H-1B, nonimmigrant workers.
- H1B grader - Find H1B sponsors, salaries, and LCAs.
- Stilt - Search H1B data by salary, sponsor, and location.
