BBC offers a new job - but only if you're disabled

[xxMATTGxx]

It does mention there isn't a guaranteed job at the end of it, but a day out to see what being a weatherman is like :S

Maybe if it is an area you want to go in or have an interest in the weather (I know there is a proper name for it) but want to get some sort of training/experience? Not a bad idea I suppose. I wonder how many people will take up the offer.

[Alkaz]

Haven't read the whole thread so I don't know if this has been said or not. Apparantly they're only asking disabled people to apply for the training scheme so there is no guarantee that a disabled person would get the job anyway.

[Chippiewill]

Is it me or when you read the full job opening it doesn't sound that bad?

http://careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/jobs/...name=corporate

I've probably missed the point.

Edit: it's just training and I swear other people do training for disabled people. So surely it's just the same as that?

Yeah, that's not a job posting, that's literally just outreach.

[e5]

They don't need to be about diversity and employ specifically a disabled person. They need someone who is actually suitable for the job, whatever their history is. Not just employing someone because they are disabled. jeeeez*

*not read the full article

[buttons]

Don't want to sound like a tumblrina but stop crying 'discrimination!' when disabled people are constantly discriminated. for every job position specifically for a (visibly) disabled person, there are millions more positions for able bodied people. however, if I was disabled, I would be annoyed that it's only to make them look good in the publics eye but cause it's so difficult for visibly disabled people to get a job or be taken seriously as an employee, I would definitely go for it.

[FlyingJesus]

It's not that it's giving people opportunities, obv that's a good thing, it's that they've specified that the reason they're doing it is to fill an imaginary quota for purely visual PR reasons and is hugely exclusive of large numbers of disabled who "don't look disabled enough", which is already enough of a problem in the world without a state institution pushing it