[humanser] INTERVIEWING

[Ericka J. Short]

Our local job center has a "mock interview" class to help people gain 
confidence in the interview.  I attended one yesterday and when the  lady 
asked me what has been one of my greatest accomplishments I said accepting 
my blindness and gaining the tools to compete in the community.  The 
interviewer used to be a VR type counselor and assisted people with many 
different disabilities hired including several blind.  I did not know this 
until later.  She said I answered the question beautifully and showed that 
my disability is not the largest part of me.  In WI it is illegal to ask 
many of the questions I have seen asked of people here.  This lady said if I 
am in an interview situation where they ask me irrelevant disability 
questions to take notes and later report them to the nearest ADA center. 
They are only to ask you if you have experience doing the tasks, not how. 
She gave us a list of illegal questions, questions that are most frequently 
asked and those you should ask at the end of the interview.  It was very 
useful!  It made getting up early and  trekking over there wearing a dress 
in 37 degree weather worth it.  An attendee who is looking for a nursing 
home  administrator job said she'd hire me.  That made me feel pretty good!

Ericka Short
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."