Web-based system, apparatus and method promoting hiring of persons with disabilities who self-identify

A computer-implemented method for receiving of applications from job seekers for an available job comprising the following steps:

• Accessing over a network a web-based application comprising a Jobs Database and a Job Seeker Database, the Job Seeker Database comprising inputs by job seekers who are persons who self-identify as having a disability, the inputs comprising information relating to a job seeker's geographical availability for employment,
• Posting to the Jobs Database information relating to an available job, including a geographical location of a work site of said job and the job's minimum essential functional skills,
• Wherein all job seekers in the Job Seeker Database are automatically deemed to have applied for the available job without the need for the job seekers to expressly select and apply for the said job, providing that job seekers' inputs relating to the job seekers' geographical availability for employment matches geographical location of a work site of the said job as input in the Jobs Database.

A mobile phone application comprising real-time feeds and display on mobile phones of users of information comprising metrics about number of job seekers who self-identify on a website application linked to the mobile phone application, number of jobs posted by geographical area, disability diversity metrics of employers by geographical area.

The system per claim wherein a Job Seeker's Profile comprises information that a caregiver or spouse of the job seeker is unemployed.