william doust's List: interview-research

• Work opportunities are failing to meet the needs of an increasingly skilled local workforce in North East London
• This conclusion follows two years of employment and skills studies conducted by Renaisi

• People with autism spectrum disorder — characterized by social deficits and repetitive behavior —
• tend to pay great attention to detail, which may make them well-suited as software testers or debuggers, according to Velasco, who has two children with the condition.
• different perspective to the workplace, which may help with efficiency and creativity as well, he said.

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  "They have a very structured nature" and like non-ambiguous, precise outcomes, Velasco said
• SAP is also considering other positions, such as writing manuals
• Individuals with autism might excel at going step by step, without skipping details that others may miss, said Velasco.
• To be sure, as with any group, people with autism have a range of interests and abilitie

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• SAP AG has been actively seeking people with autism for jobs, not because of charitable outreach but because it believes features of autism may make some individuals better at certain jobs than those without autism.
• The basic idea is that those towards the harsher end of the autism spectrum can find it extremely difficult to find employment. So much of whether you get a job or not depends not upon your actual job or technical skills but upon whether you fit in socially, and on your interview skills: something that can be problematic for those with autism.
• research into autism
• overlap between that autism spectrum and the ability to concentrate on certain sets of tasks
• spectrum of brain types

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• many companies struggle to find workers who can perform specific, often tedious tasks, like data entry or software testing; some autistic people would be exceptionally good at those tasks.