News

We updated our attendees about the incredible progress TransWork has made in the past couple years - we now have 350+ TransWork Employers, 900+ Job-Seekers, and our first TransWork staff member! For those that don't know, TransWork was the first program of its kind to ever be run out of a Chamber of...

To help job seekers, Glassdoor has introduced the Hiring Surge Explorer feature in response to COVID-19. Now, job seekers can search for companies actively and aggressively hiring and filter their search by city, industry, job title, and job function. They can also see companies experiencing hiring...

A recent study by Christopher Carpenter and Gilbert Gonzales of Vanderbilt University explores socioeconomic outcomes for transgender Americans using data from the an annual telephone survey of over 400,000 individuals in the United States that asks people about their employment, income, health...

TransWork, Philadelphia airport team up for job fair aimed at increasing trans employment by Laura Smythe Published in Philadelphia Gay News September 11, 2019 Excerpt: Applying to jobs is often stressful. But for AJ Kingsbury there’s an extra layer of anxiety — one where “you can feel your insides...

"Why the Philadelphia airport hosted a job fair for trans and nonbinary people" by Juliana Feliciano Reyes Published in The Philadelphia Inquirer Wednesday, September 11, 2019 Excerpt: When Celeste Divinity was a server, she found herself making constant calculations: Should she tell her customers...