[Social-sciences-list] Job interview anxieties with social science professionals

[Andrews, David B (DEED)]

You are putting the cart before the horse, it seems to me.  You are talking yourself out of jobs, and talking them out of hiring you before you get your foot in the door.  You need to get them to want to hire you first, then see if you can work out the access issues.  If you try and do the access issues first, you will never get a job.  

You need to have ideas about how you would solve certain problems, but unless it is a technical job, and/or you are very technical, the access issues will be solved by others.  The Air Force has people who work in the areas of accessibility and accommodations.  Make them do their jobs.  But first you have to make the Air Force want to hire you by showing them what you can do  for them
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Dave



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From: Social-sciences-list [mailto:social-sciences-list-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Peter Wolfe
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 5:13 AM
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Subject: [Social-sciences-list] Job interview anxieties with social science professionals

Hey,


    What questions do I ask in my job interview that pertain to my blindness? I'm asking cause lots of technology like software and websites aren't accessible to the blind. I don't know which jobs to go for and the ones to go for because of this anxiety that I'm having over it. This leads to my segway cause I'm always worried about databases being accessible or not. For example, I'm about to apply for a job with the Air Force that has a child abuse database but not sure its accessible or not. Thanks for whatever your thoughts are on this topic.


Thanks,
Peter