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UdemyEmployability Skills for Autistic Students and Graduates
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UdemyDeveloped with input from autistic graduates, workplace mentors, and careers consultants, this short course applies an employability curriculum specifically through the lens of autistic strengths and needs, rather than generic job-search advice.
Autistic university students and graduates, and more broadly any autistic person preparing to look for work, regardless of academic discipline.
The course takes an estimated 2 to 4 hours and was funded by the Churchill Fellowship and York St John University, with support from autism organizations including Matthew's Hub and Autism Forward, a credibility signal worth noting for a course in this space.
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.
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