T-Job Bank (www.tjobbank.com) is designed to connect trans-friendly and trans-positive employers with trans job seekers. Spurred by a transgender job-seeker dissatisfied with her experience of recruiters, career fairs and other mainstream job search methods, the site includes criteria for “Inclusive” and “Truly Inclusive” companies—truly inclusive is limited to companies who can be verified as having actually hired a transgendered person who was living in their perceived gender at the time of hiring.

Best of luck to the site’s organizer, Jillian Barfield. Check out her press release after the jump, and consider posting job listings on the site!

If you are trans or a trans ally and have found good resources or strategies for the job search process, leave a comment or email mj.justout@causeit.org so that we can share those resources with Just Out’s readership!

A new website was launched in late July that promises to assist prospective transgender employees in finding employment. TJobBank is described as the first and only organization dedicated to providing employment services to the transgender community. The site hopes to bring hope to those in the historically under-employed transgender population.

Jillian Barfield, Director of Implementation of TJobBank, said “In addition to being a part of history, the presence of job listings posted by proactive companies on our site spotlights their organization’s commitment to true  while at the same time tapping into an all too often overlooked but vastly impressive community of talented individuals.”

The need for such a service seems overdue and may help to make what some of us take for granted, the dream of secure employment, a reality for many unemployed transgender professionals. 

When an employer posts a job on TJobBank, prospective candidates apply for positions using a process that lets them reply to postings with as little or as much information as they would like to provide. This option allows trans-people to protect their anonymity, which can be very important to those in the transgender community. A searchable resume database feature is promised in the near future which will allow  to search for employees with a required skill-set without disclosing their personal information unless provided by the candidate themselves.

TJobBank can be found on the internet at www.tjobbank.com. The site offers transgender candidates an opportunity to find employment and for proactive and truly diverse companies the opportunity to post employment opportunities to a specific segment of the population.

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If you’d like more information about this topic, or to schedule and interview with Jillian Barfield, please contact her at 636/352-5168 or by email at jillian@tjobbank.com. 

Thanks to Dr. Jillian T. Weiss of transworkplace.blogspot.com for posting the original link!