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Job interviews while Autisic

Always Anxious

Hi all,

Just got rejected for a job yet again for the reason of “not selling myself enough” I’ve never been able to do this and after getting diagnosed in 2020 (just before the lockdown) I haven’t really though about how it affects me but after another rejection I am thinking “is it because of how my Austin’s (and anxiety) affects me that prevents me from talking about myself and my achievements. And if it is will I ever be able to overcome it.

I loved the place I was working but I was only a temp with the opportunity to go full time, I am devastated that I’ll have to be leaving a place I felt so comfortable and people accepted me and my diagnoses. 

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  • I've been on some, roughly 50, job interviews for an accountant during last 5 years and no luck so far.

    None since I was diagnosed autistic 8 months ago.

    I was successful only ONCE during interview for a job, it was supermarket store assistant job (after 3 of them in other stores have failed), it wouldn't have happened probably if I haven't worked in a different supermarket for 7 years, and that I left because of being bullied by manager, while manager in new store had a taste of that himself a year earlier, being bullied by the same person.

    Throughout my life I could only get a job through agency, and only those requiring no qualifications, or when someone referred me.

    Once, in Volkswagen, after few months through agency they offered me a contract.

    I've sent thousands of applications, On average 1 in 100 gets answered with a generic, meaningless ''No, thank you.'', and the reason given is one of those generic excuses they've got plenty available, even when you disclose you're autistic. E.g. ''You're under qualified.'', ''You're over qualified.'', ''You've got no experience.''

    While all that's required is someone vouching for you (like in one of those referral schemes), but I know no accountants, and to be honest among people that ''I talk to, and they answer me'' there is only one doing a job that's not 'no qualifications required' kind of job, and he is maintenance technician for national rail, so nobody really who could even advice me..

    But I'm most stubborn person on this planet and I do not intend to give up.

    Never give up, never surrender. 

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  • I've been on some, roughly 50, job interviews for an accountant during last 5 years and no luck so far.

    None since I was diagnosed autistic 8 months ago.

    I was successful only ONCE during interview for a job, it was supermarket store assistant job (after 3 of them in other stores have failed), it wouldn't have happened probably if I haven't worked in a different supermarket for 7 years, and that I left because of being bullied by manager, while manager in new store had a taste of that himself a year earlier, being bullied by the same person.

    Throughout my life I could only get a job through agency, and only those requiring no qualifications, or when someone referred me.

    Once, in Volkswagen, after few months through agency they offered me a contract.

    I've sent thousands of applications, On average 1 in 100 gets answered with a generic, meaningless ''No, thank you.'', and the reason given is one of those generic excuses they've got plenty available, even when you disclose you're autistic. E.g. ''You're under qualified.'', ''You're over qualified.'', ''You've got no experience.''

    While all that's required is someone vouching for you (like in one of those referral schemes), but I know no accountants, and to be honest among people that ''I talk to, and they answer me'' there is only one doing a job that's not 'no qualifications required' kind of job, and he is maintenance technician for national rail, so nobody really who could even advice me..

    But I'm most stubborn person on this planet and I do not intend to give up.

    Never give up, never surrender. 

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