Veterans Campus to Careers Toolkit

For student veterans moving into the workforce
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Finding Your Career Path

Your interests, strengths, and aspirations

What Do You Know?

Question 1:

As a veteran with a disability, you will have a right to use a job accommodation if needed.
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Answer: True

Your employer wants you to be successful in your position! If you have a disability (for example, PTSI or traumatic brain injury) ask for what you need to succeed. Remember that under the ADA and under state laws you have a right to an accommodation at work.  

Question 2:

You should choose only from special careers that are for people with disabilities.
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Answer: False

People with disabilities are in all types of jobs and career sectors. You are not limited to special career choices because of a disability.

Question 3:

When planning your next career move, consider your strengths first, then your limitations.
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Answer: False

Start by considering your talents—what type of skills or activities come easily to you. Then consider a career that uses these talents. Finally, consider what accommodations you might need given the limitations of your disability and the tasks involved in this career.

Question 4:

Veterans who have recently acquired their disability might have “internalized stigma.” That is, they might believe the negative assumptions about disability held by society at large.
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Answer: True

There are many assumptions about disability and what types of careers people with disabilities can enter. Veterans with newly acquired disabilities might be applying these assumptions to themselves.

Question 5:

No one wants to hire people with disabilities.
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Answer: False

Many employers are now starting to realize that people with disabilities not only make good employees, they also add to the business by bringing a unique perspective. An employee with a disability may connect and serve customers with disabilities more effectively, adding value to the business.

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