Marriott venture helps firms see past disabilities STW project focuses on making good job matches Mark Donovan knows it's not easy convincing businesses to hire youths with disabilities as interns. But that's where Donovan and the staff of the project he heads come in. If you can manage a person, you can manage a person with a disability.
Management is management.
Sometimes that assurance doesn't do the trick. Firms often still have concerns that hiring a person with a disability can compromise safety, hike workers' compensation costs or increase absenteeism, Donovan says. The key to winning over businesses to any such program is getting them to realize it serves their business needs, Donovan says. That's the only reason they should be involved. Our experience has been that indeed this program does serve their business interests.