Employment Toolkit
Career Resources for Disabled Students
Below are resources and opportunities especially geared toward students with disabilities, and other underrepresented student identities to provide mentorship, internships, and employment. If you have questions about these specific resources, please email sarabeacenter@nd.edu. If you have additional questions about career discernment or additional resources, please reach out to the Meruelo Family Center for Career Development.
Meruelo Family Center for Career Development Webpage
Organizational Resources
Job Application Tracker
Description: Need help keeping track of job applications, interviews, and offers? Below is a guided template to help you stay organized when applying for jobs.
Job Application Tracking Template
Employment Preparation & Opportunities
100k Mentor Challenge
Description: A modern mentorship tool that will ensure underrepresented students can build these crucial networks during a time when all of their traditional ways to do so have evaporated.
Opportunity Provided: Mentorship
Target Population: Underrepresented Students
Deadline: Rolling
Disability:IN, Next Gen Leaders
Description: Disability:IN NextGen Leaders is a six-month mentorship program that pairs NextGen Leaders with Disability:IN Corporate Partners.
Opportunity Provided: Mentorship
Target Population: All Students with Disabilities
Deadline: November through January
Citi Bank: Early ID Leadership Program
Description: The Early Identification Program is a 5-week virtual program that will include mentorship, interview preparation, trainings, and the potential opportunity for an accelerated interview with Citi for a summer internship.
Opportunity Provided: Mentorship & Internship
Target Population: Underrepresented Sophomore Students
Deadline: December
Fehribach Center
Description: The Gregory S. Fehribach Center in Indianapolis hosts an internship program for college students with physical disabilities (mobility, orthopedic, visual, & hearing) in which students are placed in a paid internship in a position that correlates with their academic major.
Opportunity Provided: Internship
Target Population: IN, IL, MI, KY, & OH College Students with Physical Disabilities
Deadline: January
Forage
Description: Explore careers and prepare for the job with hundreds of free job simulations designed by the world's top employers. Our job simulations build real-life skills for real-life roles, offering a window into the company and a preview of their day-to-day. Job simulationss are 100% free, open access and self-paced.
Opportunity Provided: Job Simulations
Target Population: All Students
Deadline: None
Integrate
Description: Founded in 2010, our decades of corporate experience drive our mission to help organizations identify, recruit and retain professionals on the autism spectrum.
Opportunity Provided: Employment & Internship
Target Population: Students on the Autism Spectrum
Deadline: Rolling
Lime Connect Fellowship Program
Description: The Fellowship Program kicks off with a leadership & development symposium in New York in July and offers individual coaching, webinars, mentoring, and Fellows community discussion.
Opportunity Provided: Mentorship
Target Population: Rising Juniors with Disabilities
Deadline: March
TAD Foundation
Description: With an approach that aligns current and aspiring professionals, their families, and industry-leading corporate partners, the TAD Foundation is ensuring that those in the blind and low vision community can compete equally with their sighted counterparts in job markets. Master technical and social skills from sighted and blind mentors across the business landscape; and benefit from our custom technical curriculum to make you an expert in business
Opportunity Provided: Mentorship
Target Population: Visually Impaired Students
Deadline: August
Work Force Recruitment Program
Description: The Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP) is a recruitment and referral program that connects federal and private-sector employers nationwide with highly motivated college students and recent graduates with disabilities who are eager to demonstrate their abilities in the workplace through summer or permanent jobs.
Opportunity Provided: Employment & Internships
Target Population: All Students with Disabilities
Deadline: October
