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psychogirl
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17 Sep 2019, 12:59 pm

I am signed up for emails about autism research and take part in questionnaires. They have recently sent me an email about a cyber company who are looking to recruit autistic individuals. It is totally not in my field; I'm in education (though occasionally I wonder if I should be). Should I send an email to say I'm interested and see where it takes me? Does anyone work for a company that actually values their autism?



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17 Sep 2019, 3:02 pm

psychogirl wrote:
I am signed up for emails about autism research and take part in questionnaires. They have recently sent me an email about a cyber company who are looking to recruit autistic individuals. It is totally not in my field; I'm in education (though occasionally I wonder if I should be). Should I send an email to say I'm interested and see where it takes me? Does anyone work for a company that actually values their autism?

Cyber companies are mostly looking for programmers and software architects and like autistic people because of their special skills. But I think that you should try to answer and see if they are interested because they do not dislike autistic people and need lots of other people beside of programmers too.


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17 Sep 2019, 3:09 pm

Some organisations, led by people who know about Aspergers, go out of their way to recruit people with our condition.

However, all to often this is to exploit them. Be careful!!



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20 Sep 2019, 8:28 am

Justin101 wrote:
Some organisations, led by people who know about Aspergers go out of their way to recruit people with our condition. However, all to often this is to exploit them...
Names, please?



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20 Sep 2019, 5:05 pm

I think GCHQ is very autism friendly, but I know I do not have the knowledge and skills to work there.



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21 Sep 2019, 10:03 am

Justin101 wrote:
Some organisations, led by people who know about Aspergers, go out of their way to recruit people with our condition.

However, all to often this is to exploit them. Be careful!!

that's kind of mean, how do they exploit?