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Recruiting Autistic Candidates: 4 Key Changes to Make Hiring Processes More Inclusive

Eightfold

“Avoid vague questions or trendy pop-psychology questions that have no discernable connection to job tasks and responsibilities,” she advises. Use Skills-Based Assessments in Place of Conversations When Recruiting Autistic Candidates. If possible, bypass the verbal interviews altogether in favor of skills-based assessments.

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Assessing Motivation Can Make or Break Your Next Hire — Here's How to Do It

Linkedin Talent Blog

In my 40+ years of recruiting, I’ve learned that recruiters often make a critical mistake in assessing a candidate for a position. Simply put, they think a candidate’s motivation to get the job (such as being prepared and on-time for the interview) is the same as their drive to do the job once they’re hired.

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Banishing Barriers: Building Disability Awareness into Recruiting

Indeed

To attract these job seekers, first ensure that your company meets — or exceeds — accessibility standards. With this baseline in place, you can reference it in your company’s job descriptions to demonstrate your commitment to inclusion. Remove barriers to attract new job seekers. First, review your job descriptions.

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Eliminating Bias from Hiring [Neurodiversity Virtual Event Recap]

Ongig

provide an objective assessment and measurable data. SAP Autism at Work. Sarah Loucks , Autism at Work Global lead at SAP, talked about their success with the Autism at Work program since its inception in 2013. SAP has an Autistic Advisory Board and over 180 autistic employees across 16 countries. Why I wrote this?

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How a Teenager's Viral Post Points to a Huge Hiring Opportunity

Linkedin Talent Blog

Rewrite job descriptions to make them more inclusive. When you’re writing a job description, think about what skills an employee really needs to perform the role effectively. Trim your job descriptions wherever possible to include only those skills that are essential to the position.

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4 Tips for Creating a Hiring Process That’s More Accessible to Autistic Talent — and Why You Should

Linkedin Talent Blog

Microsoft developed candidate assessments that emphasize practical skills over social skills. Unlike most traditional interviews that pay close attention to a candidate’s social skills over a short period, Microsoft opts instead for practical skills assessments that take place over multiple days—the process is part interview, part workshop.

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5 Tips for Recruiting Diversity in Engineering

Ongig

Along with revamping programming language, creating bias-free job descriptions is key to inclusive hiring in tech. Here are 2 examples: The screenshot below shows a Data Scientist job description using the word “blacklisting” which is considered exclusionary to people of color in tech. Mark Zuckerberg.