Employability Skills for Autistic Students and Graduates

A short employability course made with and for autistic people

4.45 (42 reviews)
Udemy
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English
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Other Teaching & Academi
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1,200
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1 hour
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May 2022
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FREE
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What you will learn

Skills to help you find a suitable job

Skills to help you decode job adverts and interview questions

Guidance on sharing or disclosing your autism diagnosis

Information about reasonable adjustments

Development of an action plan to maximise employment success

Description

Welcome to our short course: Employability Skills for Autistic Students and Graduates!

This online course is ideal for you if are an autistic university student or graduate interested in developing your employability skills. However, it may also be useful for any autistic person looking to develop these capacities.

It is not specific to any particular academic discipline or university course but, rather, offers a broad introduction to a range of important considerations as you begin to look for employment.

The course is estimated to take between 2-4 hours in total but you can take as long as you need to complete it.

It has a number of core aims, which include:

  • Encouraging you to consider your strengths and needs as an autistic person

  • Guiding you in thinking about what reasonable adjustments/accommodations might be right for you

  • Enhancing your ability to find a job that aligns with your skills and interests

  • Developing your capacity to secure a job by examining interview techniques

  • Providing opportunities to reflect on your learning and put it into practice

The videos and activities in this course have all been developed and produced by a team of experts, including autistic graduates, autistic workplace mentors, non-autistic university careers consultants, and non-autistic researchers. 

This course was funded by The Churchill Fellowship and York St John University. It is supported by the autism organisations Matthew's Hub, Autism Forward, and Living Autism as well as the Association for Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS).

We hope that you find it useful for building your confidence and skills around looking for and gaining employment as you move into the next stage of life.

Let's get started! 

Content

Introduction

Introduction to the course

Knowing yourself and your autism

Knowing yourself and your autism
Your autism is yours!
What impact does autism have for work?
What's next?

Planning your career path

Planning your career path
What are your skills
Presenting your skills to an employer
Applying for jobs
Writing a covering letter
What next?

Sharing your diagnosis

Sharing your autism diagnosis with others
What next?

Reasonable adjustments

Reasonable adjustments
What, who, why, when, where
What next?

The interview process

Preparing for an interview - process and questions
The interview - practical considerations
The interview day itself
What next

Reviewing and evaluating learning

Reviewing your learning

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Reviews

Beulah
May 18, 2022
The activities were interesting, and the course covered everything I was expecting. I will be returning to these resources when I prepare for interviews. However, the audio stuttered and skipped in places, which was a sensory irritation for me. Overall, I would recommend the course.

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