companies can t find enough workers, so do they need to look harder? underrepresented groups like autistic and dyslexic people could do a lot to plug the skills gap, but employees need to do more work to recruit more of them. there is a greater level of innovation. you have people who think different, who act different, and who bring a totally new level of thought process into the solutions. i m going to hearfrom jane gratton from the british chambers of commerce, about their skills gap findings. plus, i speak to these two. there they are lars backstrom, an autistic data analyst, and kurt schaeffer, who runs the biggest company in the world with a majority of autistic staff, more than 400 in his company alone. also on the show, the big boss of one of the world s largest jobs companies, recruit holdings, which operates in 60 countries, joins me to talk about how to fill the skills gap and how to spot lies on people s job applications. wherever you rejoining me from around th
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by recruiting from underrepresented groups. businesses themselves need to be more flexible and agile in the way that they manage the workplace. there are lots of people from underrepresented groups who would be very happy and would be very willing to move intojobs, would like to work, but are struggling to access the work because of potentially the interview process or because of a lack of adjustments in the workplace. for example, we know that very few autistic adults are in full time work at the present time, and only 13% of businesses have any sort of plan or initiative in place to support disabled adults in work. so if businesses need to look to hire more autistic people, how should they go about it? well, my next guest didn t know he was autistic until he was over 50. so he s experienced the job market with a diagnosis and without. lars backstrom, a real pleasure having you on the show. and lars, let me start with this, because you weren t diagnosed
are quirky out there and maybe myself quirky. but as the years went by, i started to really realise that there was something different. and so when i came across that article, i was actually shocked to see that most of what they were talking about fitted with the behaviour that lars had been showing throughout the years. and just briefly, when you saw that article and you started reading, i guess, you know, diagnoses of autism, did the light bulb sort of come on? oh, yes, absolutely. yes. it was like reading about lars. and at the end of that article, they took you to a link and it said, do this test . it s not an indication that you have autism, but it s an indication that you might have and you might want to talk to your gp about it for a referral. and then i called lars and i did the test on him and it showed that he might be on the autistic