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Information Age | ACS
Even among those neurodivergent workers who do secure a job, underemployment has proven particularly challenging given that the skills are out there – but other issues are preventing them from being made available to tech employers. They just can’t get into tech.”Since 2017, Xceptional has been placing neurodivergent workers into software testing and other tech roles requiring skills such as pattern matching and attention to detail. “Candidates are telling us that they prefer this way of interviewing, and that it helps employers understand how their mind works,” Mercer said. The availability of a standardised method for evaluating neurodiverse candidates’ skills made a partnership appealing for both firms, said Testgrid chief operating officer Will Ainsley. “I have been shocked by the level of unemployment and underemployment amongst neurodiverse people, even in the current tight labour market,” Ainsley said.
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