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Job Searching with ADHD: Five Executive Function Skills to Help Make it Easier
Job searching can be hard for anyone, but for adults with ADHD, it often feels uniquely exhausting, perhaps even bordering on impossible. The process asks you to stay organized over long periods of time, start and finish tasks without external structure, manage rejection and uncertainty, remember details under pressure in interviews, and make big decisions about job f...
What are Executive Function skills?
Executive Function Skills are a set of cognitive skills that help individuals plan ahead, stay organized, regulate thoughts and behaviors, stay focused, and achieve their goals. Each of these skills can be taught, learned, and applied at any stage of life.
- Time Management
- Maintained Focus
- Task Initiation
- Stress Management
- Organization
- Prioritization
