Making Space Launches a Tool to Turn Lived Experience into Transferable Skills
Introducing: Making Space AI
Making Space AI, our new AI tool, helps transform your lived experiences of disability into skills beneficial to your dream company.
And for anyone sick of the constant flood of empty, buzzwordy AI promises, we’re not suggesting Making Space AI write your entire job application and erase everything that makes you in there. It’s the opposite. Making Space AI is meant to be your collaborator, not your successor. It’s a sounding board providing resume formatting suggestions grounded in the insights of hundreds of Disabled professionals in our community.
How it works:
- You’ll first meet Making Space AI when creating a Making Space account.
After creating your login info and answering a few questions to help us learn more about you, you’ll be directed to the Making Space AI chat box.
- If you already have a Making Space account, you can access Making Space AI on your profile page
- Making Space AI will ask you to share about your lived experiences, like a time you navigated inaccessible environments, led a medical care team, or advocated for accommodations.
- Based on your responses, Making Space AI will tell you the professional skills you gained from those experiences, even if they’ve yet to be formally recognized.
- Making Space AI will then suggest ways to format those skills on your resume or share about them in job interviews.
- Edit as needed and add to your resume.
Example Prompts
- “I coordinate care between multiple specialists or healthcare providers, how could I talk about this in my interviews with Hiring Managers or Recruiters?”
- “I frequently adapt routines to manage unpredictable symptoms. I want to get a role as an Event Planner. How could I frame this on my resume?”
- “I use Assistive Tech to support my daily living and am applying for an Executive Assistant position. How could I frame this in my interview?”
One Important Caveat
Like any new technology, Making Space AI is a work in progress. We’re continuing to train it based on community input and feedback, and we want your voice in that process. If something feels off, inaccurate, or missing, please let us know. Your feedback will help us make the tool smarter, more inclusive, and more powerful.
Because like everything else we do, Making Space AI is built by and for Disabled professionals.
Try Making Space AI now!
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