Dear Hiring Manager

Evan has a combination of challenges including growing up with tourettes syndrome, having ADHD, and being diagnosed with OCD. The only thing about these barriers that impact his work is his ability to focus on more mundane tasks, and in fact, the advantage of having ADHD is his ability to hyper-focus on really challenging and stimulating problems for extended periods of time. But, the current process of applying for jobs is one that makes it difficult for someone like him, who needs to spend hours on end on applications which spurs a lot of doubt and frustration.

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Michelle is a first-generation Asian American who grew up in an under-resourced neighbourhood in San Francisco. Because her parents didn't go to college, she didn't have any role models and she had to learn how to navigate the system on her own. She knew she would be a minority in the tech field but she had no way of knowing just how difficult being a woman in tech would really be.

Michelle shares her experiences of dealing with imposter syndrome, interning at a company where every employee was an older white man, and the challenges she faced during interviews when trying to solve coding problems as well as stand up for herself and deal with the social aspect.

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Jimmy is a university drop out and a self-taught programmer. He landed full-time employment within 15 months of beginning his self-taught journey.  He shares his struggles to get in front of employers, how his cultural and social environment impacted him, and some resources for those who want to take the self-learning path.

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Sam, who is a talented software developer working in Ottawa, Canada developed a stutter when he was a child. His stutter does not affect his ability to problem solve or be a software developer, but it is heightened when he is put in high anxiety environments, such as an interview. We’ll hear about the many failed interviews he went through and how it affected his self-esteem, but how he eventually landed his first job as a software developer at a networking event when he raised his hand, took the mic and told a room of hundreds of employers that he was a self-taught developer looking for a job.

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Aecio is a software developer working in Canada who is an immigrant from Brazil and in addition to being new to a country with no network or connections when he was first in search for a job, he also faces the barrier of fairly severe hearing loss. He shares his experience about how he developed hearing loss, how it impacted his education and job prospects, and how the current hiring process is inaccessible to people with hearing impairment. 

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