Recruiting and Retaining Autistic Talent
20-minute Spotlight Sessions
Day 3
Session Code: Spotlight 11When: April 18, 2019
Location/Room: Spotlight Stage
Level: Introductory
Track: Critical Employment Practices
Presenter: Dylan Dailor, Dailor Consulting
Description
In a fast-growing, talent-gobbling market, good employees are always hard to come by. There is an untapped resource in the thirty-five percent of autistic college graduates, many of whom struggle to find jobs. They have a natural disadvantage in interviews, making it difficult for them to get hired. But when they get settled into your company, the fireworks begin and their laser-like focus can finish any project you put in front of them. Learn how to recruit and retain these valuable assets.
Learning Outcomes
- Human Resources retraining tools so that interviews are conducted more easily and problems that arise are handled with less issues
- A model for scheduling the day of an autistic employee, insuring the best productivity
- Tips on making the staff more aware of the struggles of autistic employees