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Good Jobs For Autism - How To Find And Keep A Job (MUST SEE) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So, good jobs for autism. This is how to find and keep a
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  job. All that's coming up Hey guys,
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  welcome back to the aspy world. My name is Dan, I have autism,
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  ADHD, OCD, and dyslexia, and I make weekly videos all about
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  this subject. So if you're new around here and
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  more awesome autism content. Guys, what's going on?
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  Welcome back. The place where we think
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  My different thinker farm. You guys are dope.
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  So today, talking about jobs and autism, this is a big, big
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  subject. I've done various videos on
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  stuff like that. But today I wanted to kind of
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  put together three kind of essentials that you really need
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  to learn and know about when you're trying to kind of find
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  work or get jobs or you know, or be in the job market for people
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  on the autism spectrum because it's very difficult for people
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  in the autism spectrum to hold and maintain a job.
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  You know, 80% of autistic people are not employed, which is just
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  absolutely shocking. And a friend of mine actually
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  applied for five jobs. She got each one of the jobs,
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  but as soon as she said she had autism, they kind of said that
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  the position had closed up. So that was no good.
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  So it's it's a it's a bleak market at the moment, but we're
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  getting there. We're making the difference.
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  So before we go any further, guys, if you haven't already
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  downloaded my free Autism Wife Hacks PDF book, you can do our
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  autismhacks.net right now. OK, so we are going to cover a
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  couple of ways in which you can see can find a job that suits an
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  autistic person and tips on keeping the job along the way.
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  So we're going to go through three tips right now, and these
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  are going to be super awesome. So make sure you have a pen, a
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  paper ready to write this down, or a tablet or a phone or
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  whatever it is you write down stuff on and let's get started.
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  OK, guys, so the first thing is local authority, right?
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  So most local authorities and agencies have designated
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  programs for autistic people to find work.
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  This will usually also have like a resume building course or
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  they'll maybe help you prepare for an interview.
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  Interview skills they may actually have like fast track
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  programs where you can do like internships.
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  They may have like trial programs where you can, like, go
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  with an agency to try out different types of job
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  opportunities. And if somebody there wants to
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  keep you on, they can keep you on.
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  I did something similar with my local authority and it was
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  really good. So always your first point of
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  call is to contact your your local authority, government or
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  local council and ask them if they have anything for autistic
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  people in terms of job seeking, job help.
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  Or go to your local job centre and ask them hey, do you have
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  any programs to help with people on the autism spectrum?
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  Because everybody has a duty of care, and if you're registered,
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  disabled, like an autistic person is, then you should be
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  able to access these levels of support that they have for you.
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  So that is your first point of call.
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  The next thing I'm going to talk about #2 is self-employment.
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  So a good option really is to home in on what you're good at.
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  Like autistic people are really good at stuff.
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  Like, you know, I don't love autistic people are good at
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  something because they have an obsession of interest in a
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  special interest in that thing, right?
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  And if you're really good in it and you love it and you can do
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  it the best you can, then you can charge for your service.
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  And this is the best way to create self-employment
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  opportunities. With this now local authorities
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  again may be able to help you with small projects, with small
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  grants and small businesses with with different kind of
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  availability and how to support somebody.
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  Because you're contributing towards the economy.
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  You're trying your best for your local community and you're
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  trying best for you. You know you're trying to to
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  have a go at self-employment and everyone salutes people who are
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  self-employed. And I'm self-employed and it was
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  the best thing I ever did and it's the best choice and the
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  best job that I've ever done. So definitely take my advice and
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  look into self-employment. If you think you have something
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  of value to offer people and you think you could charge for your
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  service, that would be super, super awesome.
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  OK, so #3 is training. Now lots of new industries have
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  lots of opportunities if you're well researched and trained in
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  that field. So I suggest that if you're not
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  really into anything specific and you don't want to go
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  self-employed, and then you also don't know you know your local
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  kind of authority doesn't really have much help or training for
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  autism, then why not go to the library, find some online
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  courses and study in an industry that you kind of want to have
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  access to. And then you can then apply for
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  positions and be the knowledge base in the insight in that
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  community, in that career. And potentially have a really,
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  really good job in that area. Because autistic people are
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  really good at humming in on something of a very good kind of
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  level of interest. And This is why autism is such a
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  unique and amazing disorder or condition.
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  Whatever you want to say. Now if you guys have any more
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  tips that you could offer people about finding jobs, keeping jobs
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  and all this type of jobs for people in the autism community,
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  then pop it in a comment down below because I read every
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  single one. Now if you think this video can
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  help somebody, please post this video on Facebook, Instagram and
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  Twitter. And if you like this video, give
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  it a thumbs up and I'll see you next time guys.
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  Peace.