Changing the Narrative Around Hiring Neurodivergent People: Celebrating 20 Years of Specialisterne

To Celebrate 20 Years of Specialisterne, Mette Marklund from Nordsjællands Hospital and Katja Sandbech from the Danish Tax Agency share their experiences of hiring neurodivergent people in their organisations.
In this video, they cover:
-How Nordsjællands Hospital hired someone with no medical background to do diagnostic imaging at a hospital
-How the neurodivergent individual went from welfare to gainfully employed medical professional
-How Katja was inspired by her own son’s autism diagnosis to get involved in hiring four autistic people at the Tax Agency
-Why it’s important to discover autistic people’s potential early in their careers