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Decoding job postings: Improving accessibility for neurodivergent job seekers — LMIC-CIMT

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Improving the quality and accessibility of job postings is one way to reduce employment barriers for neurodivergent people. Illustration by Dorothy Leung for LMIC. Listen to this report as an audio recording Neurodivergent adults in Canada face a triple challenge of significantly lower employment rates, pervasive underemployment, and shorter job tenures, reflecting a concerning pattern of exclusion and instability in the workforce. There is also a notable lack of data about neurodivergence in Canada and in Canada’s labour market. Job postings play a pivotal role in shaping the employment landscape for neurodivergent individuals. Job advertisements’ language, structure and content significantly affect recruitment outcomes by influencing organizational attractiveness, perceptions and intentions to apply. We identify four types of barriers in job postings: social-emotional skill requirements, complex application processes, ambiguity (or its opposite, over-specificity), and job and workpla

April 2024 Decoding job postings: Improving accessibility for neurodivergent job seekers Improving the quality and accessibility of job postings is one way to reduce employment barriers for neurodiver gent people. Illustration by Dorothy Leung for LMIC. Home > Decoding job postings: Improving… Key Findings Neurodive rgent adults in Canada face a triple challenge of significantly lower employment rates, pervasive underemployment, and shorter job tenures , reflecting a concerning pattern of exclusion and instability in the workforce. There is also a notable lack of data about neurodiverge

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