Millie
Hewett is a District Manager for Manpower, Inc., and she is a
member of Virginia Commonwealth's Business Roundtable. The Roundtable is a
forum for identifying and addressing factors that inhibit industries from
employing workers with disabilities.
Listen or read Millie's comments on hiring people with disabilities.
"One of the biggest benefits is the transition into full-time
employment. Forty percent of the workers that come to Manpower will end up
with permanent jobs. And that statistic is also true for people with
disabilities. They get hired at the same rate permanently as a person
who's not impaired. The other thing is....we do job assessments, essential
skill function matches, we look at their basic interests, talents, and
also we have additional training, whether it be soft training or hard
skills training that we can give the worker to prepare them in the
workplace." -- Millie Hewett
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