Share your thoughts on getting a job as an autistic adult

Where to begin? :) 

Applications - it annoys me when I have to fill in an application from scratch, employers seem to be moving away from CV's these days and more online applications, I  love websites which autofill an application based upon previous applications, so that you don't have to go through the whole process again, just double check whether the information is still relevant and focus on the supporting statement.

Something that I heard a few year's ago, but sadly haven't heard anything about it since, so I'm not sure whether this actually kicked off but someone had the creative idea of sensing employers a video CV, a video of yourself going through your experiences, qualifications and experiences ect ect, I feel that something like this could be one solution to the application process.

Interviews - I feel that employers should be specific to where the interview will be held, I've been to interviews where I turned up to the place it said on the interview invite and I was told I had to go somewhere completely different, on a diffrent floor. thankfully, i had arrived in plenty of time to find the new location. I've also had an experience where the interview invite said where the interview would be in the building, but what it didn't say is that I could only get to that part through a particular entrence, I only discovered this when I found a list of where everything is in the buliding, so I had to exit the bulding completely go into the buliding next door diffrent and then because the lift had broken down, go up several flights of stairs to the top floor, I had to try and look professional whist trying to catch my breath whist telling talking to the receptionist (otherwise if I rested I would've been late). 

I feel that one of the biggest problems is that, employers put too much emphasis on interviews rather than the person's ability to do the job, I recall being on a course for unemployed people and one of the members of the group said something very inspiring, he said that he remembered seeing his dad getting work, he would basically go up to a construction site and ask if they have any work and he said that the worker would say something like, can you lift that bucket? and if he could, he got the job.

I feel that the process of recruitment is to much of a "tick box exercise" these day's, which is becoming more evident paritcularly over the last few months because, in the past there always used to be a staff member from HR at interviews, whereas at the moment it feels like it's whoever they can grab of the floor.

I feel that something else that would help is if employers provide feedback in a diffrent format as usually they call you, tell you haven't been successful and give you some feedback, which is alot to take in, I feel that employers need to be more flexible as in my experience the preferred option is to call the candidate and even if they don't get through, they always ask for the candidate to call them back rather than just giving them the news, if employers provided feedback and the outcome through other means with an opportunity to discuss the feedback at a later date, would be beneficial.

One solution is work trials, however work trials isn't always a perfect solution as they are normally over a week which is a short period of time which leaves little time to adjust to a workplace.

I feel that the image of volenteering on the employers side and the image of work experience needs to change, often with volenteering, people volenteer for a whole range of reasons, one of the reasons behind volenteering is unemployment, even if you express the reason why you are volenteering is because you are unemployed, they describe all the positives about volenteering but rarely talk whether the volenteering could lead to a job with them, I once was on a placement with a charity for 6 months, it was a programme where i was paid for 6 months to work with the host workplace in hope that they'd employ me at the end of the 6 months, unfortunatly all that happened was the CEO asked whether I plan to continue as a volenteer, the CEO caught me off guard and I said yes, but in reality I didn't continue.

I also volunteered as a teaching assistant at a local college for several months and thoroughly enjoyed it, at the end of the experience there was a job vacancy where another teaching assistant was very keen on me applying for the role, I applied and had an interview, but was told that I should continue volenteering for a few more months but elsewhere in college.

which is why I feel an important part of any programme or trials, which is the preventing abuse of any programme/trial, which is a big disadvantage of apprenticeships, as at every interview for an apprenticeship I've been to, they either say on the application or in the interview, There's no guarantee of a job at the end of the apprenticeship, which I feel it would be better if employers commit to employing the person (not on the national apprenticeship pay), even if for 6 months after the apprenticeship if He/she wanted to continue with the employer, I feel that'll help to reduce abuse of the apprenticeship system.

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