Workers On Autism Spectrum Finding Careers In Software Testing

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 1, 2014 @08:03AM from the best-fit dept.

rjmarvin writes According to Autism Speaks, about 85% of people who have autism in the United States are currently unemployed or underemployed, but a social enterprise organization called Meticulon is training autistic individuals for highly skilled jobs in software testing. According to Meticulon, autistic people often possess sharp memory and pattern matching skills as well as attention to detail, making them ideal candidates for software testing jobs. Each year's crop of autistic students or Meticulon Consultants is tested and evaluated to develop their MindMap, a unique profile of skills and ideal work environment ultimately used to find these trained software testers an ideal job.

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I can haz job? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-12-01 08:07 · Score: 0, Troll

I got autisim, give job me please?
Bad choice of name by Hognoxious · 2014-12-01 09:06 · Score: 0, Troll

The expression "MindMap" already exists and it means something else.
Not that aspieloontards would ever grok that.

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