https://www.evilhrlady.org/2007/12/policies-preventing-success.html Everything to make HR better Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.evilhrlady.org/2007/12/policies-preventing-success.html#comment-1491 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:24:00 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/2007/12/policies-preventing-success.html#comment-1491 One thing that has frustrated me about the article you cite and the discussions of it is that they all seem to treat dyslexia as a single condition. It’s more like a continuum. At one end are people who may transpose letters and numbers and very little more. As a rule they don’t have a problem reading or with standardized tests. At the other end are people who have severe difficulties with both. I can’t seem to find out whether there was any distinction made in the study for severity which makes me question any conclusions.

]]> https://www.evilhrlady.org/2007/12/policies-preventing-success.html#comment-1490 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:57:00 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/2007/12/policies-preventing-success.html#comment-1490 Interesting article. I have 14+ years of experience as a dyslexic HR professional. While, I have managed to develop coping strategies to maximize my success, it has not been easy. I have often found myself in positions and tasks where I had to struggle to perform, and underutilized in areas where I naturally excel. Truthfully I have often questioned whether HR was a wise career path; it certainly hasn’t been an easy one. Unfortunately you reach a point when children, mortgages and car payments preclude a late career change. Ironically, even though I work in a profession that claims to maximize human capital, to be successful, I have had to push my round little self into a square little whole. I have done a good job of hammering myself in, but it was painful and of course, I got stuck.

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