Celebrating Value and Talent!
The Department of Human Resources and the Office on Disability and Accessibility are proud to offer programming highlighting resources and services supporting employment opportunities in the City for people with disabilities.Workshops
Review the programming details below, and click the registration link to sign up for any session that interests you.
October 1 - How to Apply & Interview with Confidence (In-Person)
Session Details:
- Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (90 Minutes)
- Format: In-Person
- Audience: Jobseekers with disabilities, community members, Career Center clients
Purpose:
- This workshop prepares job seekers to successfully navigate the City hiring process while building the confidence and interviewing skills needed to compete for City employment opportunities.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to apply for City jobs
- Understand the City hiring process
- Build confidence during interviews
- Develop a strong interview introduction
- Practice answering interview questions
- Learn how to highlight strengths and abilities
Topics:
- Understanding City Careers
- Navigating SmartRecruiters
- Resume Tips
- Interview Preparation
- Interview Pitch
- Talking About Your Abilities
- Q & A
October 5 - How to Apply & Interview with Confidence (Virtual)
Session Details:
- Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm (90 Minutes)
- Format: Virtual
- Audience: Jobseekers with disabilities, community members, Career Center clients
Purpose:
- This workshop prepares job seekers to successfully navigate the City hiring process while building the confidence and interviewing skills needed to compete for City employment opportunities.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how to apply for City jobs
- Understand the City hiring process
- Build confidence during interviews
- Develop a strong interview introduction
- Practice answering interview questions
- Learn how to highlight strengths and abilities
Topics:
- Understanding City Careers
- Navigating SmartRecruiters
- Resume Tips
- Interview Preparation
- Interview Pitch
- Talking About Your Abilities
- Q & A
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October 7 - Employee Panel: Thriving in Public Service (In-Person)
Session Details:
- Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (90 Minutes)
- Format: In-Person
- Audience: Employees, Jobseekers, Supervisors
Purpose:
- Attendees will hear directly from City employees with lived experience as they share their career journeys, workplace successes, challenges, and advice for creating more inclusive workplaces.
Discussion Topics:
- Career journey
- Applying for City employment and experience
- Workplace accommodations
- Supportive supervisor or leaders
- Career growth and trajectory
- Workplace culture and sense of belonging
- Advice for future applicants
October 13 - Reasonable Accommodation 101 (In-Person)
Session Details:
- Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (90 minutes)
- Format: In-Person
- Audience: Internal Departments, HR Professionals, Managers, Supervisors, RA Coordinators, anyone who supports engagement and employees around reasonable accommodations
Purpose:
- Provide supervisors, managers, HR professionals, and department leads with a practical understanding of the Reasonable Accommodation process while creating a safe environment to discuss real workplace situations and ask questions.
- This session is intended to complement existing compliance training by allowing participants to engage in discussion and apply concepts to real-world scenarios.
Discussion Topics:
- Reasonable Accommodation overview
- Legal framework
- Policies and procedures
- Interactive discussion
- Workforce perspective
- Facilitated Q&A
- Resources and connections
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the purpose of Reasonable Accommodation.
- Review the interactive process.
- Understand employee rights and responsibilities.
- Understand supervisor and department responsibilities.
- Learn when and how to engage HR and ADA partners.
- Discuss common workplace situations through facilitated conversation.
October 14 - Reasonable Accommodation 101 (Virtual)
Session Details:
- Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm (90 minutes)
- Format: Virtual
- Audience: Internal Departments, HR Professionals, Managers, Supervisors, RA Coordinators, anyone who supports engagement and employees around reasonable accommodations
Purpose:
- Provide supervisors, managers, HR professionals, and department leads with a practical understanding of the Reasonable Accommodation process while creating a safe environment to discuss real workplace situations and ask questions.
- This session is intended to complement existing compliance training by allowing participants to engage in discussion and apply concepts to real-world scenarios.
Discussion Topics:
- Reasonable Accommodation overview
- Legal framework
- Policies and procedures
- Interactive discussion
- Workforce perspective
- Facilitated Q&A
- Resources and connections
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the purpose of Reasonable Accommodation.
- Review the interactive process.
- Understand employee rights and responsibilities.
- Understand supervisor and department responsibilities.
- Learn when and how to engage HR and ADA partners.
- Discuss common workplace situations through facilitated conversation.
Register now
October 15 - Department Leadership Panel: Building Inclusive Workplaces (In-Person)
Session Details:
- Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (90 Minutes)
- Format: In-Person
- Audience: HR Professionals, Managers, Supervisors, Department Leaders
Purpose:
- Explore strategies departments can implement to strengthen inclusive hiring, employee retention, accessibility, and workplace culture.
Discussion Topics:
- Building an inclusive workplace culture
- Inclusive hiring strategies
- Reducing barriers during recruitment
- Employee onboarding
- Retention strategies
- Supervisor engagement
- Workplace accessibility initiatives
- Department success stories
- Lessons learned
Suggested Panelists:
- HR Leader
- Hiring Manager
- Department
- RA Coordinators
Discussion Questions:
- What organizational practices have improved inclusion?
- How do departments foster belonging?
- What challenges remain?
- What advice would you offer other departments?
October 20 - Digital Accessibility (In-Person)
Session Details:
- Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm (90 Minutes)
- Format: In-Person
- Audience: Open to all employees
Guest Speakers:
- Adaptive Technologies
- Lighthouse for the Blind
Purpose:
Introduce participants to assistive technologies and digital accessibility tools that improve communication, workplace participation, and access to information for employees with disabilities.
- Learn the fundamentals of digital accessibility.
- Explore assistive technology used in today’s workplace.
- Experience demonstrations of screen readers and accessibility features.
- Discover practical ways to make documents and digital communications more accessible.
- Learn about emerging technologies that support an inclusive workforce.
Demonstrations may include:
- Screen readers
- Accessible documents
- AI-powered accessibility tools
- Live captioning
- Voice recognition
- Microsoft accessibility features
- Mobile accessibility tools
October 21 - Digital Accessibility for IT (Virtual)
Session Details:
- Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm (90 Minutes)
- Format: Virtual
- Audience: Open to all employees
Guest Speakers:
- Adaptive Technologies
- Lighthouse for the Blind
Purpose:
Introduce participants to assistive technologies and digital accessibility tools that improve communication, workplace participation, and access to information for employees with disabilities.
- Learn the fundamentals of digital accessibility.
- Explore assistive technology used in today’s workplace.
- Experience demonstrations of screen readers and accessibility features.
- Discover practical ways to make documents and digital communications more accessible.
- Learn about emerging technologies that support an inclusive workforce.
Demonstrations may include:
- Screen readers
- Accessible documents
- AI-powered accessibility tools
- Live captioning
- Voice recognition
- Microsoft accessibility features
- Mobile accessibility tools
October 27 - Community Resource Fair (In-Person)
Session Details:
- Time: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm (3 hours)
- Format: In-Person
- Audience: Jobseekers, Employees, Community Members
Purpose:
- Connect participants with organizations that provide employment services, vocational rehabilitation, assistive technology, benefits counseling, educational opportunities, and disability-related resources.
Potential Partners:
- Department of Rehabilitation
- DMV
- Lighthouse for the Blind
- Toolworks
- Independent Living Resource Center
- RAMS HireAbility
- Golden Gate Regional Center
- City College
- Goodwill
- AbilityPath
- (Any internal partners?) JobsNow?
Event Features:
- Community resource tables
- Career Center information
- Resume assistance
- Networking
Reasonable accommodations
To request a reasonable accommodation, please complete the reasonable accommodation section of the session registration form. If possible, submit your request at least two weeks before your session date. We will do our best to accommodate late requests, but we cannot guarantee them.
About
Career Center Services for people with disabilities
The City Career Center offers free services for people with disabilities all year long. It offers one-on-one career advice to people with disabilities. It also offers workshops on applying to city jobs and exploring career growth.
To learn more or sign up for an appointment or workshop, go to the City Career Center website.