Career assessments designed for autism, ADHD, and dyslexia. Sensory-aware UX, no time pressure, plain-language framing.

Generic career assessments make four assumptions that exclude many neurodivergent learners. (1) Sustained-attention completion in one sitting, which fails ADHD learners. (2) Implicit social-context questions, which trip autism-spectrum learners into incorrect literal answers. (3) Time pressure, which spikes anxiety and degrades performance. (4) Visual-noise UX with multiple competing elements, which overloads sensory-sensitive learners. JobCannon's neurodivergent deployment removes each: pause-resume preserves progress, plain-language phrasing avoids social-context ambiguity, no time pressure on any assessment, and a calm-mode UX with reduced visual noise.

Big Five has cross-cultural validation literature including studies of autism-spectrum populations; it is generally considered the most-validated trait framework for neurodivergent assessment. The trait profile that emerges (often higher Conscientiousness, varied Openness, lower Extraversion in many autism-spectrum cases) is informative for career direction without medicalizing the difference. JobCannon presents results as identity-stable traits rather than performance assessments — autism-spectrum learners see their trait profile validated as a workforce asset, not framed as deficits relative to a neurotypical norm.

ADHD learners often start strong, lose engagement at minute 15-20 of a sustained task, and drop off. JobCannon assessments are modular: the full battery breaks into 10-15 minute modules that can be completed across multiple sessions over days or weeks. Pause-resume preserves progress at the question level. Coordinator dashboards show partial-completion status so coaches know when to nudge re-engagement. The design goal is that stopping at minute 15 costs a participant nothing — they come back to the next question, not to the start of the battery.

Standard personality assessments use phrases like "I am the life of the party" or "I make friends easily" that produce unreliable answers from literal interpreters. JobCannon's instruments are written in plain-language behavioural terms — "I prefer working alone on focused tasks for several hours at a time" rather than "I avoid social situations." Multiple-choice options describe specific observable behaviours rather than abstract self-concepts. The whole intent is that a question can be answered from what you actually do, without first decoding what the social situation behind it is supposed to mean.

Autism employment programmes (Autism @ Work, Specialisterne, Auticon, Aspiritech, NHS LightHouse) typically run a multi-week assessment and pre-employment cohort before placement at a partner employer. JobCannon assessments fit naturally into the discovery weeks. Career Guide output flags careers with strong sensory-controlled, pattern-recognition, or detail-oriented profiles which suit many autism-spectrum profiles, alongside skill-gap analysis with recommended free courses. Coordinator dashboards track cohort progression for programme reporting and partner-employer matching support.

Both. An individual can take the full battery and see their on-screen result without an organisation behind them. Programme deployment (autism employment, ADHD coaching practice, dyslexia-friendly career counselling) runs on the Scale tier at $199/mo flat, covering 200 learners a month with coordinator dashboards; Growth is $999/mo for 1,000, and Enterprise starts from $15k/yr with no invite ceiling. Partnership engagements scope bespoke configurations for autism-specific employer-matching pipelines.