Boost Your Graduates’ Outcomes with neuro-inclusive Careers support

🧠 72% of neurodivergent graduates face barriers in recruitment processes.

Your team can be the bridge to fairer outcomes.

Source

Training, consultancy, and co-created resources tailored to the realities of supporting neurodivergent students into internships, placements, and graduate roles.

How Parallel Minds Can Help

Empower your team with confidence, clarity, and practical tools to better support neurodivergent students into the world of work.

We offer training, talks, and strategic consultancy tailored to the challenges university careers services face β€” all built to support inclusive outcomes, from prep to placement.

🧠 Bespoke Workshops

For internal careers teams or wider staff development

  • Tailored sessions to build confidence in supporting neurodivergent students

  • Includes guidance on how to identify and support reasonable adjustments when students aren’t sure what they need

  • Unpacks what realistic, effective adjustments look like in early careers settings

  • Introduces universal accessibility principles to reduce over-reliance on labels or disclosure

⏱️ Length - 2 hours, half day or full day

πŸ“ Location - virtual or on-site

πŸ’° Price - starting from Β£1,300

πŸŽ™οΈ Talks

Engaging, interactive and accessible awareness sessions:

  • Neurodiversity in Recruitment - for careers teams to understand key hiring barriers and inclusive practices to supercharge graduate outcomes.

  • Navigating Hiring as a Neurodivergent Graduate - a student-focused session that helps unpack common interview challenges, reframe neurodivergent traits as strengths rather than deficits, and build confidence in requesting adjustments that create a more equitable path to success.

⏱️ Length - 1 hour, 2 hours or 3 x 45 minute power sessions

πŸ“ Location - virtual or on-site

πŸ’° Price - starting from Β£900

🧩 Consultancy

Strategic support to improve systems and partnerships

  • Employer Engagement Strategy – audit and improve your employer partnerships for ND inclusion

  • Inclusive Practice Audit – review of your student-facing materials, guidance processes, and drop-ins with a focus on accessibility and adjustments

  • Reasonable Adjustments Pathway Design – develop internal clarity on roles, language, and student support mechanisms around adjustments

πŸ› οΈ Retainer or project based

πŸ“ Location - virtual, on-site or hybrid

πŸ’° POA

Partnering with Birkbeck, University of London

We delivered a bespoke training session for the Birkbeck careers team, designed to help them:

  • Lower barriers for neurodivergent students seeking graduate jobs and placements

  • Confidently consult with their employment partners on making hiring processes more neuroinclusive

  • Shift focus toward universal accessibility to reduce over-reliance on disclosure and formal adjustments

β€œI would like to take a moment to thank Parul for her professionalism, passionate support and enthusiastic, engaging delivery. She understood our needs straight away and I can confidently say - overdelivered! Some of my colleagues said they never felt more comfortable in a training session”
— Hristina Ivanova, Birkbeck Careers Team