Posted on 10/09/2021 5:06:10 AM PDT by DoodleBob
There is so much in the news right now about hiring – people looking for jobs, employers who can’t fill jobs, etc.
I want to shine a light that is relevant to all these contexts: Professionals with autism.
I’ve noticed that many businesses (including Schnucks and Trader Joe’s) are transparent and show pride in hiring autistic employees. The fact that more companies are striving to have an increasingly diverse and inclusive workforce makes me smile. Hiring individuals with autism is just another indicator of how we are progressing as a society, recognizing that all individuals have a place to contribute and add value.
This led me to dig a little deeper into how autistic professionals can begin their career and impact their workplace.
According to Liz Kinsella, BCBA, Program Director for Thrive Autism Solutions in St. Louis (now BlueSprig), hiring an employee with autism not only adds to a company’s diversity, but is a sound business decision. Corporations can leverage the strengths of those on the spectrum and improve their own business practices.
Workers with autism can maximize their potential in many roles, including:
1. Positions that require a great attention to detail.
2. Jobs that are highly structured or repetitive.
3. Shifts typically difficult to staff or that have high turnover, including overnight or solo hours.
The result can be a dream work environment for individuals on the autism spectrum.
As with any new hire, workers with autism may need specialized training or minor accommodations in the workplace. They may need assistance from a job coach, having complex tasks broken down into smaller steps, or extra visual support like written lists or schedules written they can reference.
Of course, those who hire should understand the social differences and difficulties for those on the spectrum. An applicant with autism may not make the most eye contact in an interview. They might be blunter and more honest than other applicants who engage in the typical “schmoozing” during the hiring process. However, such honesty, directness, and even a dislike of office small talk can be extremely valuable traits in an employee.
Autism Speaks found that 92% of Americans view companies hiring people with disabilities more favorably than those companies that do not. In an effort to address the issue of employment for individuals with autism nation-wide, they partnered with Rangam Consulting, Inc., a staffing company that helps meet the needs of Fortune 500 companies, to create TheSpectrumCareers.com.
Individuals with autism seeking a job can submit their resume to the site, where experienced recruiters will match applicants to suitable jobs and forward their resumes to the hiring managers. There are close to 10,000 job openings currently posted, including local job opportunities with Barnes & Noble in St. Louis.
On a national scale, Ford Motor Company recently announced the launch of their new job-training program for individuals with autism, FordInclusiveWorks. A typical job with the FordInclusiveWorks directs employees with autism to log and prepare tires prior to inspection, including testing with engineers.
Thanks to intensive early intervention, or Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), many young children with autism are growing up to be fantastic candidates for the workforce, ready and eager to contribute to society. Ford Motor Company and other large international corporations recognize the potential impact that hiring workers with autism can have for both business and the community at large.
St. Louis area businesses can benefit (many already are) by doing the same.
Agree.
My only hiring algorithm is simple and successful: ABAL
Anything But A Liberal
Absolutely
They are singularity focuses
DoodleBob,
Yes to all of this. ESE teacher here, and the wife of a high functioning ASPIE, individuals on the spectrum have phenomenal gifts of focus.
As long as they have some good coping skills in the mix, they’re phenomenal workers.
Apparently Asperger’s crops up in financial fields for those reasons.
Dr. Shaun Murphy agrees...
1. Positions that require a great attention to detail.
Children of Israel:
Joshua 22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
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Deu 6 (That's DO-teronomy, what to DO):
4. Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
5. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might:
6. And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart:
7. And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up:
8. And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes:
9. And you shall write them upon the posts of your house, and on your gates:
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2. Jobs that are highly structured or repetitive.
Etymology
From the name which the book bears in the Septuagint (Ancient Greek Δευτερονόμιον (Deuteronómion) and in the Vulgate Latin Deuteronomium). This is based upon the erroneous Septuagint rendering of משנה התורה הזאת (mishneh ha-torah ha-zot) (17:18), which grammatically can mean only "a repetition [that is, a copy] of this law," but which is rendered by the Septuagint τὸ Δευτερονόμιον τοῦτο (tò Deuteronómion toûto), as though the expression meant "this repetition of the law."
3. Shifts typically difficult to staff or that have high turnover, including overnight or solo hours.
Matthew 26
73 And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee.
74 Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.
75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.
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Like with the rounded, general number of words in the Torah, the Big Bet (challenge) at the beginning was for the sum of 80,000.
In 1977, it was the value of a snazzy new...
Peterbilt.
Sez so right here in this opening clip. 80,000.
Peter is a pun on patar and pitron, the Hebrew methodology for a solution/interpretation of a thing. Dream big. Love what you DO and you'll never work a day in your life.
According to the labor is the reward. ~ Ben He He (Pirkei Avot 5:23)
Matthew 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Due diligence. Anyone observe that through "vaccine hesitance", it's become a crime?
Daniel 6:5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
The law of the Medes and the Persians was the law that "altereth not".
The science, or dogma as it were, was settled.
"Behold I come as a thief."
To buy a new rig:
Smokey and the Bandit (2/10) Movie CLIP - For the Money, For the Glory, For the Fun (1977) HD
Coors. 400 cases.
We' gonna do what they say can't be done.
Esau cometh. With 400..
Founding
In 1873, German immigrants Adolph Coors and Jacob Schueler from Prussia emigrated to the United States and established a brewery in Golden, Colorado, after buying a recipe for a Pilsner-style beer from a Czech immigrant William Silhan.[3]
Coors invested $2,000 in the operation, and Schueler invested $18,000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coors_Brewing_Company
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See. Coors started out with 2,000. A big bet ['ב]. The first letter of the Torah.
Jacob invested 18,000.
"You can thank me by not getting caught." ~ Mr. B
Can-DO People stay alert! ;)
Trans + AM, for the people who will accept a challenge and go across. Don't miss the famous design on that hood!
Exodus 19:4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.
King David wasn't able to build the Temple. But his son...
Jesus wasn't able to round up the chickens. But his son...
How much longer is all this stuff just going to sit there until folks catch on that it's all orchestrated and it's time to get up and leave Egypt. Pedal to the metal..
To be sure, I also don't want my defensive end playing QB. People on the spectrum may not do well in customer-facing roles or where conflict resolution is part of the grind. But that's not the fault of the employee - that's a problem of management that can't hire for the job. We ARE individuals.
Oddly, I deal well, generally, with customers. I have an “on” switch where I know what to say, remember personal details, and explain complex technical issues by breaking them down systematically. I’m not a salesman type, but I’ve learned, with long experience, to be able to tell things to people that they don’t want to hear, and just how to do so.
Once my ex-wife visited me at work, and she was shocked at how easily I got along with customers. I think she felt I’d been “holding back” at home.
At home, I’m happy reading, or working on my workshop, or watching TV. I don’t really want to chat. In social situations, I let my wife do the talking.
Ironically, that same management probably spend lots of time defending star jerks.
Mine was, “Can and will they do the work”.
Nothing else mattered.
Everyone has autism it’s the degree of the amount is the only difference.
I had some other personality issues at the time that made me a bit of a jerk sometimes, and I didn't always get along with authority. The main reason they put up with me as long as I did (and they didn't put up with me forever,) was because of the occasional moments of spectacular problem solving, and ability to put in tremendous hours and be at the top for billable hours.
But even that will only get you so far. Like sports - a smooth team is worth more than a brilliant performer. Combined with my inability to manage office politics, (I ticked off a lot of people) I ended up with a (probably deserved) target on my back.
One of my former supervisors described me as "brilliant, but a bit of a lone ranger."
That's why I ended up working for myself.
Since then, awareness of my situation has allowed me to smooth off some of the rough edges. Now, if I have situations where I am dealing with people on a long term situation, at church for example, I'll explain to to the person I report to that I am mildly autistic. It explains my compulsion to certain fine points, and my desire to analyze things in detail as well, which otherwise they would find annoying.
“I have mild Asperger’s, and it allows me to hyper-focus, and do deep research. Socially, it’s different, I’m not a social person, but read people pretty well. I tend toward introversion.”
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If you put that as a definition with a picture of a person, you’d see my beloved husband’s face.
LOL
He’s also EXCELLENT with numbers.
Downside: He can be focused to a fault, excluding anything and everything not related to the thought process at the moment. Also, he cannot refrain from his face showing what he’s thinking. LOL That last tidbit has caused me to actually tell waitstaff and strangers to please disregard the look currently on his face as his ‘New Yorker’ gene has kicked in.....
‘Cause he is from New York..... Married 33 years, living in Texas for 32 and 1/2 years and that New York gene will still kick into gear. He will never go back to New York, though. Whew.
LOL
“I have mild Asperger’s, and it allows me to hyper-focus, and do deep research. Socially, it’s different, I’m not a social person, but read people pretty well. I tend toward introversion.”
____________________________________________
If you put that as a definition with a picture of a person, you’d see my beloved husband’s face.
LOL
He’s also EXCELLENT with numbers.
Downside: He can be focused to a fault, excluding anything and everything not related to the thought process at the moment. Also, he cannot refrain from his face showing what he’s thinking. LOL That last tidbit has caused me to actually tell waitstaff and strangers to please disregard the look currently on his face as his ‘New Yorker’ gene has kicked in.....
‘Cause he is from New York..... Married 33 years, living in Texas for 32 and 1/2 years and that New York gene will still kick into gear. He will never go back to New York, though. Whew.
LOL
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