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Advice needed on finding employment for 24 year old autistic step son.

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My 24 year old stepson is struggling to find employment.  He has qualifications to BTec level, he completed dropped out of his IT degree course suffering from anxiety.  He's been applying for entry level admin and IT roles for the last couple of years but with no success.  He will often get to the first interview stage but no further.

Does anyone know of any businesses that employ autistic adults in entry level roles?  And additionally does anyone know of any IT apprenticeships that are autistic friendly?

Thank you in advance.

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  • Me and my friend are both in a similar position to this. We both have technical qualifications but are struggling to find employment. Unfortunately the job market is very competitive nowadays with something like 20x more graduates than 30 years ago. Both me and my friend share a similar weakness of social skills which is also bad for interviews and working with others. All you can really do is keep applying to entry level roles or writing to companies and hope that eventually one will be successful. The job centre may offer some support with how to develop his job seeking and interview skills as they have done with me

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  • Me and my friend are both in a similar position to this. We both have technical qualifications but are struggling to find employment. Unfortunately the job market is very competitive nowadays with something like 20x more graduates than 30 years ago. Both me and my friend share a similar weakness of social skills which is also bad for interviews and working with others. All you can really do is keep applying to entry level roles or writing to companies and hope that eventually one will be successful. The job centre may offer some support with how to develop his job seeking and interview skills as they have done with me

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