Veterans Campus to Careers Toolkit

For student veterans moving into the workforce
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Reconnaissance

Are you ready to go from campus to work?

What Do You Know?

Question 1:

In your career search, focus on special jobs for veterans with disabilities.
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Answer: False

Veterans with disabilities are in all types of careers and at all levels. There are no “special” jobs for those with disabilities.

Question 2:

2. Internalized stigma means that people with disabilities (particularly newly acquired disabilities) might themselves believe stereotypes and misperceptions about people with disabilities.
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Answer: True

Misperceptions about disability abound in the media and in our shared understanding. When you bring these misperceptions to bear on your own disability, this is called internalized stigma. Develop the habit of questioning your assumptions about disability.

Question 3:

3. Seventy percent of what we need to know to be successful in our jobs is learned outside the classroom—by trial and error, talking to people, and simple learning by doing.
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Answer: True

Research tells us that most of what we need to learn to be successful at work is learned outside the classroom, through real-life experiences in the workplace.

Question 4:

If you didn’t tell your employer about your disability when you applied for the job, you can’t request an accommodation later, if hired.
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Answer: False

Your choice about disclosing your disability during hiring has no bearing on your right to an accommodation once hired.

Question 5:

You can still be qualified to do the job when using a job accommodation.
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Answer: True

Workers who use job accommodations are not less qualified to do the job. Reasonable accommodation is a right of all workers who have a disability and are employed at a workplace covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

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