Disaboom and JobCentral.com Partner to Improve Unemployment Rate Among People Living With Disabilities
Published Jan 14th, 2008 Market Wire News Release
DENVER, CO, Disaboom, Inc., (the first online community for people living with or directly affected by disabilities or functional limitations, today announced a multi-faceted partnership with JobCentral.com. The JobCentral.com National Labor Exchange is a service provided by the DirectEmployers Association, a consortium of Fortune 500 and other leading corporations nationwide, in alliance with the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA). DirectEmployers was founded to develop and manage systems and software for employers to increase labor market efficiency and reduce Internet recruiting costs for its consortium members. NASWA is an organization of state administrators of unemployment insurance laws, employment services, training programs, employment statistics and labor market information and other programs and services provided through publicly funded state workforce systems.
Disaboom will launch version 2.0 of its Career Center in February 2008. The Career Center will offer employment opportunities, resources, and services to the Disaboom community and corporations. Through this partnership, Disaboom will fully integrate JobCentral's advanced search engine technology into the Disaboom Career Center. This will enable registered Disaboom members to search and apply directly for employment opportunities from a database of currently over 500,000 open positions with DirectEmployers' consortium members and state job boards. The partnership also includes, among other initiatives, Disaboom serving as DirectEmployers' content and resources partner for the upcoming release of a disability channel on the JobCentral.com site.
"We are very pleased to have DirectEmployers as the flagship partner in our Career Center. Approximately 15 years after the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the unemployment rate of people living with disabilities remains between 60% and 65%+. Disaboom's Career Center and DirectEmployers' disability channel will be excellent vehicles to provide employment opportunities, resources and services to our respective members and users," stated John Walpuck, President and CFO of Disaboom.
Chad Sowash, Vice President of Business Development of DirectEmployers, stated, "Our members are already working with the disability community, but they want to do more. We look forward to working with Disaboom to achieve the objectives of our partnership and consortium membership."