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MSP Voice Episode 52 – “Diversity in Hiring” with Dawn Sizer

MSP Voice Episode 52 – “Diversity in Hiring” with Dawn Sizer

Dawn owns and runs 3rd Element Consulting in central Pennsylvania and she’s expecting some big growth this year. Some of the verticals they focus on are law enforcement and legal. Having spent time in the male-dominated tech industry, Dawn decided that it was time for her to start her own company almost 14 years ago.

3rd Element started out as MSP (without really knowing it) and skipped the break/fix stage. Focusing on law enforcement does create some hurdles in hiring as her employees much pass extensive background checks.

As I was researching for this interview I came across a few blog posts by Dawn about hiring neurodiverse employees. While originally meant to cover autism, she has expanded this to embrace all neurodiverse individuals. Dawn has written 2 articles on her site to explain the processes they use to support these individuals. Read part 1 Onboarding Neurodiverse Employees and part 2 Supporting Neurodiverse Employees. Dawn further expands on these ideas in this episode.

Guest: Dawn Sizer

Company: 3rd Element Consulting

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Doug Hazelman
Doug Hazelman is a software industry veteran with over 20 years experience. Doug is currently VP of Technical Marketing for CloudBerry Labs. Doug engages with customers as well as the MSP community to help spread the CloudBerry message as well as get feedback on products and services. Doug has held various management positions at other software companies throughout his career, joining CloudBerry after spending 9.5 years at Veeam Software.