Selective placement for the handicapped : information for the placement of disabled applicants in competitive employment / War Manpower Commission, United States Employment Service.

Date:
1945
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Credit: Selective placement for the handicapped : information for the placement of disabled applicants in competitive employment / War Manpower Commission, United States Employment Service. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in placing the handicapped, and methods of solution. qualifications of specific handicapped applicants in the occupational field covered by the interviewer. ete., cases in which handicapped ap- plicants have been successfully placed. the application cards of informa- tion about the applicant’s qualifica- tions and work capacities. tions and order cards to determine if referrals of handicapped workers are being made and if they are being referred to suitable jobs, or to ap- propriate agencies. handicapped applicants to determine the extent to which the handicapped are being placed, which interviewers are making referrals and _ place- ments and the kinds of jobs in © which the applicants are being placed. ; cant’s physical condition, the inter- viewer may ask, “Is there any work you cannot do because of your physical condition?’; ‘Could you pass a very rigid physical examina- tion?” The interviewer is inter- ested primarily in disabilities of a permanent nature which must be considered in placement. tive Service or applicants who were rejected for jobs through physical examination should be questioned to determine whether a handicap re- quiring Selective Placement exists. has been referred to the office by a health or welfare agency, the inter- viewer may question the applicant concerning the reason for his con- tact with that agency. ance at some special class, school or institution, such as sight con- servation, class for lip-reading, speech correction, ungraded, ete. In such instances the reason for attendance should be discovered. older than the average at the time he graduated from elementary schoo] or if grades were repeated in school, it might indicate that time was lost because of illness or mental deficiency or both. a physical handicap may be revealed by questions concerning his partici- pation in sports. If the applicant had no athletic interests in school, or had limited gym classes, a physi- cal limitation may have been the reason. job because the work was too heavy or because of absences due to ill- ness, the interviewer should deter- mine whether or not there is a phys- ical disability to be considered in placement. ployed for an unusually long period of time or has changed jobs very often, the presence of a disability may be indicated, provided the un- employment or changing of employ- ment cannot be explained through other causes. *