FAQ: Five Tools for Expanding Your Job Search
TL;DR
These five job search tools from The Princeton Review and others provide strategic advantages by revealing overlooked career paths and workplace accommodations.
The resources systematically guide job seekers through career quizzes, interest-based searches, and accommodation tools to methodically identify suitable occupations.
These inclusive job search tools help create better workplaces by connecting neurodivergent and disabled job seekers with accommodating employers worldwide.
Discover unexpected career paths like zoologist or curator through engaging quizzes and LinkedIn exploration that reveal surprising job possibilities.
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These tools help expand your job search by providing new ways to discover career opportunities, assess your strengths, and explore occupations you might not have previously considered.
The Princeton Review offers a free 'either/or' style quiz with about 25 questions that analyzes your answers to outline your strengths, skill sets, and potential career matches after creating a quick account with your email.
It provides detailed information on various occupations including 'day in the life' depictions, required training and education, and career outlook for both early and later stages of each occupation.
O*Net OnLine allows you to search occupations based on interest categories (realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional) and provides comprehensive job descriptions including necessary skills, tasks, work environment, and strengths.
JAN provides resources for searching by disabilities/conditions, work-related functions, limitations, and accommodations, helping job seekers consider job tasks from new angles and discover workplace accommodations they hadn't previously considered.
LinkedIn can help you discover new job possibilities by exploring organizations you admire, colleagues in adjacent fields, and professionals connected to your connections, revealing positions you hadn't yet considered.
These tools benefit job seekers at the beginning of their search, those needing variety in occupations and search terminology, and individuals feeling their career needs a new direction.
Workability.one is an inclusive job board mentioned in the content that connects neurodivergent, autistic, and disabled job seekers with inclusive employers worldwide.
Yes, JAN (Job Accommodation Network) specifically provides resources for job seekers with disabilities, offering search tools for accommodations, limitations, and work-related functions that can spark ideas about previously unconsidered job possibilities.
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