I completely agree with Sultana's observation about ITC Hotels. I have personally interviewed with them at their hotel in Hyderabad and with an added reference from their VP HR who has enough information and inputs about inclusion of persons with disabilities.
Despite being a professional from the hotel industry and many promises made by the HR Manager, they have not ever responded to any follo up calls from me. this was over 2 years ago. I understand the industry needs a lot of visual inputs, but there are still roles like training which can be easily fulfilled by a person with vision impairment. When asked by the HR Manager, this was exactly what I told him I could do as could anyone else like myself. Since I have the necessary industry experience and skills to carry out this task with the minimal adjustments, it was not very nice to see they didn't care and I had eventually wasted my time with the company. These are my personal thoughts based on first hand experience with them. They must be definitely pushed to be more inclusive in their policies based on the skill sets and industry experience an individual brings to their table, rather than just look at the disability as an inability. -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ss sarfudeen Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 5:38 PM To: accessindia Subject: [AI] Employment Data needed on disability Hai Swati, I would like to share some information with you based on my personal experience, regarding exploring opportunities particularly at ITC Hotels for people with disabilities. They do hire people with physical disabilities for operational roles. However, there is no scope for vision impaired persons to work there as they use an application exclusively designed for ITC on the UNIX platform which does not support JAWS. I strongly agree with Asif's statements about the discriminatory attitude of corporates towards disabled people. Regards, Sultana Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessind ia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
