Alberta firm Meticulon selling autistic job strengths

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News story on the National (video)

According to the news story, Meticulon has been testing and training some people in Alberta with autism and promoting them to companies as ideal employees for particular sorts of work in IT. In the video, you can see behind the scenes at the company assessment process for the new consultants, and also "sit on" as the company promotes their consultants to a company. It looks like they are really trying to be supportive, rather than just exploit the autistic employees as a source of vulnerable labour. While I have heard of this sort of company before in other countries, this is the first I have seen for Canada.

For further reference, here is Meticulon's website: http://meticulon.com/

Well s**t, as an aspie living in Alberta with a strong interest (nay, obsession) in computers, I should totslly look into this.

As an aspie in Alberta, I sent them an email already..... My obsession has been lifelong... Have a drawer full of certifications, no career.

North is the #1 way I'd like to move if I did so for more tech work. I'm at least employed for now though.

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I have a bunch of Microsoft networking certs, a novell cert, a couple of cisco certs my A+ and a couple others. All from win2k... 2004.