With employers turning their focus to enabling their workforce to work from home, hiring managers are faced with a new challenge of mobilising their teams, implementing new processes and managing workloads remotely. Employers may find this time of heightened change difficult to navigate, particularly the recruitment process. At Xceptional we believe there has never been...
Aiden is an avid video gamer who dabbles in game development and programming. He once dreamed of making games and desktop apps for a living. However, as a non-verbal autistic teenager, living in the Blue Mountains, he rated his job prospects “somewhat low”. He was worried that his social anxiety would prevent him from ever...
‘I have Aspergers and that means I’m sometimes a bit different from the norm. And – given the right circumstances – being different is a superpower’ – Greta Thunberg There is a lot of media and business attention on the enhanced abilities of autistic people. The BBC ran the headline Are autistic individuals the best...
The perspective of a mum in supporting her adult child to finding meaningful employment.
We do Christmas like we do business. Differently! This year we were determined for our Christmas party to be inclusive.
As a Westpac 2018 Businesses of Tomorrow winner, Xceptional were invited to Melbourne Business School for their ‘Take on Tomorrow Program’. Here's what we learnt about business innovation:
Wow! Big thank you to all who voted for Xceptional in the Google.org Impact Challenge
Everyone who works at Xceptional has a direct connection to autism: either they have autism, or they have a friend or close family member who does.
Most marathons are run on the weekend. After all, this is when many people have at least one day off work, and the roads aren’t as busy – so it makes sense.