How do I...Get a Job?

This game is designed as a resource to help young people learn to understand and prepare for work experience, job- seeking, interviews and coping in the workplace. In particular young people with a diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum find interviews difficult in the same way as they may struggle with day-to-day conversations.

Many of the elements of the interactions are similar:

• Greeting appropriately
• Making eye contact
• Using appropriate facial expression
• Listening carefully
• Asking good questions
• Requesting clarification.

This fun discussion card-based activity encourages participants to:

• Answer questions
• Appraise themselves
• Decide whether advice suggested is good or bad
• Role-play situations and interactions using hypothetical scenarios.

There are 74 cards and the game can be played by any number of people, although 4-6 is recommended.

Age: 15 +