Neurodiversity Training for Recruitment and Talent Acquisition Professionals
Attract, recruit and support neurodivergent talent with confidence
The session was very well organised from the room set up, to content, delivery, pacing and tone of the trainer. This will help us with supporting the business with manager coaching and supporting employees with better access and open discussions about any “success enablers” they require right from the candidate journey. The examples that were discussed - both personal and professional from the trainer’s employment/client environment and employment tribunal cases were really helpful. The session was excellent.
The way you design and run your hiring process decides whether neurodivergent candidates get through or drop out before you ever meet them. Get it right and you reach a wider, stronger field of candidates. Get it wrong and you lose good people before the first interview, along with the discrimination risk that comes with it.
This neurodiversity recruitment training gives your recruiters and talent acquisition team the practical tools to attract, interview and support neurodivergent candidates with confidence. It is built around your real hiring process, from the job advert to the offer, not a general awareness session that leaves you no better placed on Monday morning.
It is designed and delivered personally by Jenefer Livings, a Chartered HR practitioner and neurodiversity specialist who is neurodivergent herself.
What’s included in the neurodiversity in recruitment course
This is not a lecture and it is not a slide deck you could have read on your own. Your team learns by working through real recruitment situations, drawn from:
- Jenefer’s own lived experience as a neurodivergent professional and her work as a neurodiversity specialist and HR consultant
- The hiring situations your own recruiters bring to the room, from screening to offer
- Real examples of where hiring decisions create discrimination risk, so your team knows where the lines sit and how to stay the right side of them
The session is tailored to where your team is starting from. If neurodiversity is new to them, we start with the essentials. If they already know the basics, we go straight into the harder questions and real recruitment scenarios.
What your team will be able to do
By the end of the day, your team will be able to:
- Spot where your current hiring process is screening out neurodivergent candidates and know exactly how to fix it
- Write job adverts and descriptions that attract neurodivergent applicants instead of putting them off
- Run interviews that let every candidate show what they can actually do, whatever their communication or processing style
- Design assessments and selection tasks that test the skills you need, not someone’s ability to mask
- Handle candidate disclosure conversations with confidence, so people feel safe telling you what they need
- Apply reasonable adjustments at every stage from application to onboarding, including knowing when to recommend a workplace needs assessment as part of onboarding.
- Build a hiring process that earns your organisation a real reputation as a neuroinclusive employer
Outcomes
After the training, your organisation will:
- Recruit from a broader, more diverse field of talent
- Give every candidate a fairer experience, which protects your employer brand
- Reduce the risk of bias and discrimination claims in your hiring
- Run a more consistent process that holds up if a hiring decision is ever challenged
- Keep more of the people you hire because the support starts before day one
Optional add-ons
- A neuroinclusive audit of your job adverts and interview process
- A full recruitment process review with tailored recommendations
- Workplace needs assessments for your new neurodivergent hires
Book Your Training
All Silk Helix training is delivered personally by Jenefer Livings, our founder. She is a Chartered member of the CIPD with more than 20 years in HR and a PGCert in Neurodiversity. She is also neurodivergent herself, which means she understands the candidate side of this as well as the legal one. Training is never outsourced.
We run a limited number of sessions each year and dates fill quickly, often months ahead, so it is worth getting in touch early to hold the date you want.
Ready to make your hiring process work for every candidate? Book a free consultation if you would like to talk it through first. If you are ready to move ahead, email team@silkhelix.co.uk or call 01245 910 500 to request a quote or check availability.
Course Introduction
In this video Jenefer introduces the course and explains a little bit about how she approaches training delivery. Towards the end of the video we include a number of course reviews from those who have attended training sessions with Jenefer.
Why neurodiversity matters in recruitment
Neurodiversity recognises that every brain works differently, including autistic people and those with ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia or another neurodivergent profile. They bring creativity, analytical thinking and problem-solving that strengthen your organisation.
The trouble is that traditional hiring screens a lot of them out. Rigid application systems, unstructured interviews, sensory-heavy assessment days and vague expectations all filter out capable people before anyone has seen what they can actually do.
This training helps your recruiters and talent acquisition team spot those barriers and remove them, so you can attract and keep the candidates other employers are missing.
On-site Training
£2,250
- One Day - in-house, at your workplace
- Maximum of 14 delegates
- Interactive workshop
- Comprehensive workbook for each participant
- CPD certification for all attendees
- Plenty of opportunity to discuss your real life experiences and cases with our expert trainer
All prices are exclusive of VAT.
Prices are correct for courses delivered on your site in Essex, Kent, London and Suffolk. Courses can be delivered outside these areas, please call 01245 910500 for a quote.
Who the training is for
This course is built for the people who shape and run your hiring:
- Talent acquisition teams
- In-house recruiters
- Recruitment consultants and agency recruiters
- Hiring managers who interview and select candidates
- Anyone responsible for designing or running your recruitment process
From early-career and graduate programmes to executive search and high-volume hiring, your team will leave with practical changes they can make straight away.
If it is your wider HR or People team who need neurodiversity training, this is not quite the right course for them. We run a dedicated course for HR professionals. We can also build a bespoke session that blends recruitment and HR if that suits you better.
All our courses, whether live or recorded, are delivered by Jenefer Livings who has 20 years experience in HR, having designed and delivered training on the whole range of HR topics for organisations across industry sectors. As Jenefer also provides hands-on consultancy work with her clients she maintains an up to date knowledge and experience that shines through with engaging stories in her training.
With our in-person course we'll work through case studies and discuss real life examples to ensure your managers get learning relating to the types of cases they'll be dealing with.
Why Silk Helix?
Every Silk Helix session is delivered by me, Jenefer, in person. Not an associate, not a stand-in, not a recording. I keep on-site training to around 30 days a year so every group gets my full attention and the most current examples from the consultancy work I am doing that same week. Training is the one thing I will never outsource. When you book Silk Helix training, you get me.
My promise to you! There will be no role plays, no embarrassing icebreakers where you have to reveal information about yourself and no one is picked on to speak. In my experience these are the things people dread about training and I see the collective sigh of relief when I start the session with this promise.
I recognise that to get discussion going you need an inviting environment. For in-person training this means a room set up, which includes a supply of fidgets and sweets, usually this in itself creates instant discussion as people enter the room. This sets people at ease and creates an ice breaker of its own.
You get a little hint of my style on our YouTube channel. In-person training is like that just with lots of interaction interspersed.
Why Choose Silk Helix for Neurodiversity Training?
At Silk Helix, we specialise in creating inclusive workplaces through expert training, consultation, and support. With extensive experience in neurodiversity and HR, we provide actionable insights and impactful training to benefit your entire organisation.
Our founder, Jenefer, has a Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) in Neurodiversity and is a qualified Workplace Needs Assessor. Passionate about inclusive workplaces, she brings both professional expertise and personal understanding to every workshop.
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Frequently Asked Questions
If anyone attending our training sessions has a specific need we should be accommodating we ask that you tell us in advance so that we can plan the training accordingly. We will do our best to accommodate any need for whatever reason that need exists.
There are also some common ways we develop our training to take into account the wide variety of learning styles and needs. We know learning styles are not limited to visual, auditory, reading and writing, and kinesthetic. Learning is impacted by a whole variety of things, including underlying medical conditions (diagnosed and not), comfort/ safety in your environment and your past experiences of learning. Our training by design takes this into account, including:
- a welcoming environment for learners to enter
- stress balls or other fidget resources
- workbooks with place for personal notes if the learner wishes
- minimal need to read long pieces of text
- noone is called out or picked on (even to go first)
- no icebreakers that require you to reveal personal information (we do use activities but always related to the learning and with a specific goal)
- no role plays (we find for too many people the issues around acting get in the way of learning)
- regular breaks
- no lengthy period of lectures by the trainer - it’s about discussion of your real life cases or activities that make you think or develop skills
- Yes, we’ve worked with many clients where we’ve delivered multiple courses to allow everyone to attend. We don’t recommend more people in the session for many of the reasons listed above, our courses are designed to be interactive and a safe place to discuss real life situations. Once the groups get much bigger than 14 it starts to become difficult for everyone to participate in these discussions.
- Yes, we’re happy to adapt and design sessions to suit your needs. Book a FREE, no obligation, consultation to discuss your needs and get a quote for bespoke training.
Yes, our in-person training is provided at your venue. Some clients use meeting rooms in their buildings, others book venues. There are a couple of things to consider - we need space in the room to move around. We won’t get you running about but being able to move into smaller groups for discussion, sometimes brainstorming around a large piece of paper are examples of the activities that need space.
In addition, our trainer will need parking as training comes with a lot of kit, plus somewhere to plug a laptop in and either a screen or projector. We don’t use loads of slides (Jenefer isn’t a fan or either producing them or remembering to switch slides) but there are a few occasions where a diagramme or video for example help make the point.
- Our full day sessions are 6 hours, including 30 minutes for lunch and 2 coffee breaks. Our half day sessions are 3 hours with a coffee break. Exact times may vary slightly, training courses are interactive with plenty of opportunities for discussion built into the day, this can impact the end timing slightly.
Yes.
We are a registered provider with The CPD Certification Service- Every session is delivered in person by Jenefer Livings, our founder. Chartered CIPD, a Postgraduate Certificate in Neurodiversity, a qualified Workplace Needs Assessor, 20 years in HR and neurodivergent herself. Training is never outsourced to an associate.
- If you’re ready to go ahead then either book a consultation or email training@silkhelix.co.uk with your requirements and we’ll get dates booked in.