Youth Skill Exploration: Discover Your Strengths and Land Your First Job

August 18, 2026 | 1:30PM – 3:00PM EDT

Virtual

Youth Skill Exploration: Discover Your Strengths and Land Your First Job

A practical and supportive workshop for youth job seekers looking to identify their strengths, communicate their skills, and prepare for their first job.

Event Details

Date:: Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Time:: 1:30 PM–3:00 PM EDT
Location:: Virtual Workshop
Cost:: Free
Facilitator:: Linda Brown

Overview

Discover Your Strengths

You already have skills, strengths, and experiences that matter.

In this workshop, you will learn how to recognize what you are good at and how to talk about it when applying for jobs. You do not need formal work experience to have valuable skills. Your experiences at school, at home, in your community, through volunteering or caregiving, in your hobbies, or in programs can all help demonstrate what you bring to a workplace.

This workshop is built on respect, choice, and partnership. You are the expert on your own life. We will start with your strengths, interests, goals, and experiences. Disability will be discussed as part of human diversity, not as something that makes you less capable.

We will also explore how barriers in workplaces, systems, and environments can affect job seekers, as well as how supports, accommodations, and inclusive practices can help.

What You’ll Learn

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

Identify your personal strengths, interests, and skills.
Recognize the value of experiences that may not come from paid work, such as school projects, volunteering, caregiving, hobbies, community involvement, training, or life experience.
Understand transferable skills and how they can be used in many different jobs.
Connect your strengths and experiences to the types of jobs you may want.
Describe your strengths to an employer in a resume, cover letter, interview, or conversation.
Build confidence in talking about what you can do and what support helps you succeed.

Who Should Attend

This session is designed for youth job seekers ages 15 to 30. It may also be helpful for anyone looking for their first job or anyone who would like support identifying and communicating their strengths to an employer.

Speaker

Linda Brown

Senior Learning Coordinator, CCRW

Linda Brown is the Senior Learning Coordinator at CCRW and is responsible for the development, creation, deployment, and maintenance of the eLearning environment and resources. She began at CCRW in 2020 as a Youth Employment Facilitator before transitioning into the eLearning role.

Linda has created over 50 eLearning courses, three eBooks, and countless resources, guides, and toolkits to support employment success for job seekers with disabilities. She also identifies as a neurodivergent person and brings lived experience, formal education, and over two decades of experience advancing equity initiatives for marginalized groups into her practice.