Workplace Accessibility Training

Inclusive Recruitment and Accessible Hiring

Removing barriers from attraction to appointment

Recruitment should identify the best person for the role. However, traditional job descriptions, application processes, interviews and assessments can unintentionally create barriers that prevent talented disabled and neurodivergent candidates from demonstrating their skills and potential.

Inclusive Recruitment and Accessible Hiring: Removing Barriers from Attraction to Appointment helps recruiters, HR professionals and hiring managers create fairer, more accessible recruitment processes while maintaining effective and consistent selection standards.

Participants explore the complete recruitment journey: from defining roles and advertising opportunities through applications, interviews, assessments, reasonable adjustments and final selection.

The course focuses on removing unnecessary barriers so candidates can be assessed based on the skills, experience and capabilities that truly matter for the role.

About this course

Who is this course for?

This course is particularly valuable for:

Recruitment and Talent Acquisition Teams
Hiring Managers
HR and People Professionals
Resourcing Teams
Line Managers and Team Leaders
HR Business Partners
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Leads
Employee Experience Teams
Senior Leaders responsible for workforce and talent strategy

What will the course cover?

Inclusive and accessible recruitment
Defining genuine role requirements
Challenging unnecessary recruitment criteria
Inclusive job descriptions and advertising
Accessible applications and candidate communication
Disability and neurodivergence in recruitment
Structured and inclusive interviews
Accessible assessments and selection methods
Reasonable adjustments during recruitment
Fair and evidence-based decision-making
Reducing assumptions and subjective bias
Candidate experience
Preparing for successful onboarding

What will you learn?

Participants will leave the course better equipped to:

Recognise and remove barriers throughout the recruitment journey
Distinguish genuine role requirements from unnecessary recruitment practices
Create clearer and more inclusive job descriptions and advertisements
Make application processes and candidate communication more accessible
Understand how recruitment may be experienced differently by disabled and neurodivergent candidates
Conduct more structured and inclusive interviews
Design assessments around the capabilities genuinely required for the role
Respond confidently to requests for reasonable adjustments
Separate evidence from subjective impressions when assessing candidates
Make fairer and more consistent recruitment decisions
Improve candidate experience from attraction through to appointment

Delivery

We understand that finding time for training can be challenging. That is why we offer flexible delivery options designed to fit your organisation’s schedule and ways of working.

This course is available in person, live online, or as a bespoke programme tailored to your organisation’s specific needs and objectives.

Duration

Full day (9.00am – 4.30pm)

Tailored to your organisation

Every workplace is different, which is why we tailor our training to your needs.

The course can be personalised to reflect your organisation’s existing recruitment processes, policies and working practices. Your own job descriptions, advertisements, interview approaches, assessment methods and recruitment scenarios can be incorporated into the programme, allowing participants to identify practical improvements they can apply directly within your organisation.

The course is suitable for healthcare, social care, professional services, financial services, technology, education, public sector organisations and employers across the wider corporate market.

Ready to make your recruitment processes more accessible and inclusive?