The employment rate for individuals with autism looks promising in 2017. In the United States, adults who have autism are finding more permanent workplace options. And just recently, companies have been working to keep these differently abled people productive.
This year, multinational companies like Microsoft and Google launched job recruitment drives for professionals with autism. These initiatives are mostly from people who either are parents or have friends with autism.
According to Forbes, there are three different types of employers: huge companies like Hewlett-Packard, Best Buy and Ford Motor, etc. Second, the small scale businesses like Spectrum Designs and Chocolate Spectrum and others.
There are also internet-based jobs for those who are artistically inclined and self-employed. This drive is most likely to progress because of its low operating cost, as well as the first initiative.
In June this year, colleges and charity organizations have been testing these waters as well, like the "Awakening the Autism Entrepreneur" initiative. This program hopes to further enable this industry.
Autism is a complicated neurological infirmity. People with the high functioning form of autism usually find a job. However, in recent years, persons on the autism spectrum did not really find it easy to land a job. After going to college, some of them didn't find the necessary match, as per Washington Post. The difficult part is finding the perfect match in terms of skills.
With technological advancements and job placement initiatives, people with autism have easier access to get a job. Now that the workplace is fast adapting to a diverse type of workplace, another critical challenge is how to keep these professionals in their posts and not continually move to a different work assignment. Job support is also an important factor to consider.
As long as employers who are very much willing to hire and keep these individuals are there, hopes remain high. Meanwhile, people with autism are often considered honest, meticulous, mostly work unsupervised and who do not usually file for medical leaves. These aforementioned traits are the what the firms are interested to retain.
