How do you feel about gureeteed interview schemes?

If you're like me and constantly applying for jobs you will have seen some have what are called gureteed interview schemes. Where they offer this there is usually a little checkbox to tick to say as a disabled person if you meet the minimum criteia for the job they gureentee to interview you even if you are not a particularly strong candidate.

I didn't used to tick them. Partly because there is ussually a disclaimer ... something on the lines of "disabled as defined by the equality act 2010." Of course now I know autism absolutly qualifies as a disability under the equality act but back then I was unsure. Also I was unsure how I felt about being described as disability back then.

Now I always tick the box. My reasoning is largely as follows:

  • as an autistic person dealing with the people skils barrier in aplications is hard and an advantage to compensate for that is fair.
  • I'm not getting the interview unless I'm qualified enough on paper for the job anyway.
  • There are things I might fair to convey or miss understand in the paper part of a job aplication because of my autism. If a gureeteed interview gives me a second chance to convey the skills I do have that's a good thing.
  • The scheme only gureentees an interview. If I'm not the best guy in the interview I still won't be hired.

How do you feel? Do you tick the box? A lot more employers are offering this now because it's part of the goverments disability confident acreditation? Do you think something like this should be compulsory?