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Careers
fromSlate Magazine
2 days ago

I Finally Found a Career I Love. The Physical Toll Might Force Me to Quit.

A mid-50s caregiver suffers worsening cold-sensitive nerve pain from pushing heavy patients, faces ineffective tests and undesirable treatments, and struggles to keep employment.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

A moment that changed me: I froze in a job interview and it made me stop hiding my disability

To my horror, I couldn't make out a single word on the display. The customer, a woman with her young daughter, stood impatiently as I froze. I didn't know what to say. After a few awkward minutes, the hiring manager dismissed me and I received a rejection email the next morning. My dreams of attending Wireless and Reading festivals with my friends disintegrated and I had another, more important, revelation: for the first time in my life, I realised that I was disabled.
Medicine
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
3 months ago

'Like a permanent barrier': Ontario needs to change hiring rules for people with criminal records, report says | CBC News

Ontario laws and hiring practices create lasting employment barriers for people with criminal records, disproportionately affecting Black and Indigenous applicants.
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