Autistic Achievers- Recruitment Agency For Autistic Adults

A press release from Phil Evans:

• ·         Autistic Achievers will be a specialist online recruitment agency for adults, supported by The Prince’s Trust and Michael Fabricant MP, the Member of Parliament for Lichfield, on the autistic spectrum that is set to launch on Monday 24^th June 2013.

• ·         Only 15% of autistic adults in Great Britain are finding employment, while 79% have no success with 59% of the unemployed believing they will never find a job.

• ·         Phil Evans, the founder of Autistic Achievers, found employment during his time at university in Southampton, Great Britain and in Lichfield, Great Britain.

Developed by Phil Evans, a 26-year-old man with Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism, Autistic Achievers will be an online specialist recruitment agency that will advertise tailored job vacancies for autistic adults who are 18-years-old or over.

Based in Lichfield, Staffordshire, employers of a small, medium and large nature from across Great Britain will be invited to develop job roles that can be adapted for the comfort of people with autism.

Taking employment qualities such as persistence in working on a task until it is completed to the highest standard, the possession of a sense of justice and integrity and a reliable and honest nature into account, autism will be positively showcased as a disability that is largely misunderstood.

Initially, £60 will be charged for a work experience placement on the website, with £50 being charged for a part-time vacancy and £40 being charged for a full-time vacancy in a mission to charge smaller amounts for a greater amount of opportunity that is handed to an employee.

Two packages will also be on offer with £800 buying five placement advertisements, 10 part-time vacancies and 10 full-time vacancies, where £600 would buy 10 part-time and 10 full-time vacancies.

All Autistic Achievers vacancies will be advertised through its website until they are filled or removed by the employer involved.

Phil was lucky enough to find work himself as a Residence Assistant at Southampton Solent University and as a Retail Assistant at Iceland Foods, after managing to grow up in a mainstream school education and then earn a BA (Hons) degree in Sports Journalism at Southampton Solent University in July 2012.

The Way We Are: Autism in 2012, a report that was published by The National Autistic Society as a part of their 50^th anniversary celebrations in 2012, stated that 79% of all autistic adults who are looking for work with assistance from out-of-work benefits are struggling to find work.

With support being offered by Michael Fabricant MP and funding being offered by The Prince’s Trust, Philip hopes that Autistic Achievers can close the cavernous gap between the 15% who are employed and the vast amount that are not.

You can follow Autistic Achievers on Twitter here.