Career Sign

Updated: 14/04/2018

Solution provider

Greece
“Career Sign” is an Non-Profit Organisation that deals with career personal needs of people with disabilities or other difficulties. The purpose of this organisation is to reach harmonisation in personal and vocational life and to integrate them, not only into the labour market, but also in the society, following scientific methods.

"Career Sign" could be characterised as the bridge between the people with disability career desire and the community needs, expectations and awareness.
Confucius said "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life".


"Career Sign" mission is to help people with disabilities to find out which their "job calling" is and provide appropriate services based on his needs, starting from academic choice till getting job.
By this way inequality in vocational and academic fields is reduced. Furthermore, awareness of society increases, because of the increasing of contact between people with and without disability, creating its own experience that will spread mouth to mouth.
Not to mention that "Career Sign" will adopt assessments for people with disability so they can be used with the appropriate way.


Last but not least, "Career Sign" by its services will motivate people with disability and their family's members in such a way to have resilience to barriers that will face in the future, while it provides trainings to HR staff and coworkers of people with disability.


Nowadays in Greece, all people have to face the results of financial crisis, which have also create a huge problem in labour market.
People with disability (approximately 30% of the Greek population) were usually discriminated by society, but crisis make it more intense. Furthermore, they hadn't the opportunity to get information about job descriptions and universities in an accessible way. So, they may keep stay in home and not socialise themselves. Community haven't the chance to be award of what a person with disability is able to do and keep its own stereotypes.
Basically, society not only loose the opportunity to use a great amount of its human resources, but also loose the opportunity to develop its members.

"Career Sign" follows the principles that is proposed in career counselling. The novel here is that employees of Career Sign are already familiar with culture of people with disability and they have both expertise in counselling field and experience. Furthermore, Career Sign's site is fully accesible for people with disability and people can upload their resume and look for a job position.


The career of people with disability is a disregarded issue that maybe till now experts weren't able to deal with. There is such lack of career information for people with disability.

Till now, there was no current solution. All choices happen by luck. Now, experts will provide services in the way that science demand


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