Hire Learning with Oz Rashid is a series of raw, honest, and entertaining conversations with top-performing business leaders across an array of industries that focus on the one thing every business leader has to play a part in: finding top talent.
The reality is that making the right or wrong decisions when hiring not only impacts you as a leader - it affects every aspect of the business.
The goal of the show is to help business leaders learn new ways of approaching the way they identify and engage top talent.
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Hire Learning with Oz Rashid is a series of raw, honest, and entertaining conversations with top-performing business leaders across an array of industries that focus on the one thing every business leader has to play a part in: finding top talent.
The reality is that making the right or wrong decisions when hiring not only impacts you as a leader - it affects every aspect of the business.
The goal of the show is to help business leaders learn new ways of approaching the way they identify and engage top talent.
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Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On this episode, Oz Rashid welcomes Tara May, Chief Executive Officer of Aspiritech, a pioneering tech company that creates meaningful employment training and career paths for autistic and neurodivergent professionals. A 25-year veteran of digital transformation, Tara is on the Board of Directors at HAAPE and Neurowrx, a Member of the Forbes Business Council, and was formerly EVP at Winsight, LLC. She blends technology leadership and cultural change, building scalable QA, cybersecurity and skills programs that prove inclusion drives measurable performance. A tireless neurodiversity advocate, she partners with national initiatives and community programs to make Aspiritech a global model for how businesses can tap overlooked talent while improving outcomes for both people and organizations.
Key Takeaways:
00:00 Introduction.
04:52 Scaling from one client to seventy-five demonstrates sustainable growth.
07:42 Traditional interviews create barriers that exclude neurodiverse talent.
10:38 Hiring should assess job skills, not social performance.
16:47 Free training programs empower neurodivergent professionals for tech careers.
22:44 Parenting neurodiverse children reshapes expectations of success and growth.
31:08 Simple changes make workplaces more sensory-friendly and productive.
35:56 Embracing AI as a paradigm shift avoids obsolescence.
37:57 Confidence, not capability, often separates career stages over time.
Resources Mentioned:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/taranmay/
Aspiritech | LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/aspiritech/
Aspiritech | Website
https://aspiritech.org
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