Starkloff Career Academy

The Starkloff Career Academy is a 10-week professional development course specifically designed by and for professionals with disabilities. HR experts help sharpen your job-searching skills and share current hiring trends. You’ll get both group and one-on-one support from experts in disability employment. In our one-of-a-kind Career Academy, you’ll learn:

How to present your personal brand and disability story
How to identify and prepare for the most important interview questions
How to request accommodations for an interview
Which questions to ask during an interview
How to build a complete and stand-out resume
How to follow up with recruiters after an interview

This rigorous 60-hour course is offered at no cost to participants through the generous support of our corporate partners and donors. All prospective candidates must interview with a Career Academy team member prior to the course.

Classes begin on February 23, 2021 and will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays via Zoom from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. until May 4, 2021.

ONE-ON-ONE COACHING

Personalized interview preparation and career development taught by real professionals with disabilities.

COMMUNITY NETWORKING

Learn the latest skills for the modern hiring process while building relationships with other skilled professionals with disabilities.

PRACTICAL APPLICATION

Put your skills to the test with trusted HR and hiring professionals from Starkloff's partner companies.

BARBARA LABINJO

As a result of this course, I feel confident that I have something to contribute to the workforce. This course and the group have convinced me that my potential, that I hadn’t recognized, is of great importance.

GREG TURNER

I have learned an enormous amount of information from the Starkloff Career Academy program and it has shown me so much in not only job-seeking skills, but life skills, and how to carry myself moving forward.

BRANDON MORRIS

The Starkloff Disability Institute has helped give me confidence. Within that confidence I have learned and gained employment at Centene as a data management specialist and I’m very happy. I am proud to be a supporter and a graduate of the Career Academy.

TRICIA OBRIEN

I learned to take my disability and turn it into a strength, into the ability to thrive in difficult or challenging situations. I also learned to take accomplishments and successes of my career, to build on them, and to turn them into tools to finding meaningful employment, which I have done thanks to Starkloff.