A career development approach to disability and vocational rehabilitation indicates the need to empower clients' capacity to enter the workforce through 'career enhancement'. This paper outlines a forum for university students with a disability that was informed by the notion of career enhancement and was conducted with the purpose of linking students, with one another, employers, employment agencies, State and Commonwealth Government agencies, and with key staff of the university's careers service. Feedback from students indicated the value of the event in terms outcome and process.The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS, 2004a) estimated that one in five Australians had a disability in a survey conducted in 2003. Previous research into Australian employment patterns found that the proportion of those with and without a disability was generally equivalent across most industry sectors (Athanasou, 1999).This finding is ostensibly positive, in that disability is evenly distributed across industries. However, people with a disability face considerable uncertainty and disadvantage in the Australian labour market (Buys, Buys, Kendall & Davis, 2001; Gillies and Knight, 2001) and internationally (Szymankski and Vancollins, 2003).Athanasou's (1999) analysis of ABS data revealed, however, a disparity within the participation and unemployment rates. This analysis indicated a clear disadvantage for those with a disability. People with a disability experienced higher chances of unemployment; as indicated by a differential rate of 5.0% unemployment for those without a disability, and 8.6% for those with a disability. Furthermore, of the people who were employed, those with a disability were over-represented in the part-time work category.The nexus between employment and education complicates the experience for Australians with disabilities. With respect to higher education, one in eight people between the ages of 15-64 years without a disability had completed an undergraduate degree, in contrast to the ratio of one in five for people with a disability (ABS, 2004a). The positive impact of higher education upon employment status is evident in differential rates of unemployment. For example, in 2003 people with schooling of Year 12 or below represented 69% of the unemployed population, whereas those with a bachelor degree represented only 9% (ABS, 2004b). A more refined analysis reveals however, that graduates with a disability may not necessarily enjoy the full employment benefits of a university education. Data collected by the Graduate Careers Council of Australia (GCCA, 2004), presented in Table 1, indicated that disabled graduates were more likely to be seeking full-time work, or were in part-time work, in contrast to non-disabled graduates.------------------- Table 1 HereGiven these statistics and other Australian and North American research (Mungovan and O'Day, 1997; Hynes, Syme, Lawn, Jones, Brown, & Edwards, 1997; Conyers, Koch, & Szymanski, 1998), the truism that people with a disability face conside...