Job searching gives me overload

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The other day I had more than 10 phone calls from recruitment agents, all of them asking me the same questions about my CV (which is available to them online). I got so overloaded at the end of the day I had to switch my phone off.

Now I got a telephone interview which the agent has not even sent me the job specification!

It is all such an ordeal my brain has become lethargic and I feel depressed.

I don't know how to cope with all the phone calls because I am crap on the phone and agents are phoning me at all hours from 08:30 until 21:30. I am in the UK and we all have the same time zone so they should not phone people late. It is bizarre.

I sort of get the same thing happening when I look for a job. I have enough specific business related computer experience now that headhunters tend to come to me rather than me going to them. And sometimes I have recruiters calling me for jobs that are in my area, but the recruiter is calling from someplace completely different, and sometimes in a very different timezone, which results in the weird hours of calls that you mention. So when that happens I'll just turn my phone completely off during times when I'm sleeping or don't want to be bothered by it. Usually these recruiters will also email me as well as trying to call, so I don't really worry too much about my voicemail getting full and missing messages.

I think my problem is that I try to engage with each call and even if the job doesn't seem to fit I will let them put me forward for it. Then I lose track of what I have applied for.

I need to keep things to a minimum otherwise I end up messing all of them up.

I expected to come into this thread and commiserate, but I see that it addresses the difficulties of jobs searching for a prospective employee rather than the other way around. Now I feel a little dismayed.

Setting limits seems like a good idea, though. Having a clear goal actually makes things easier for other people, and that seems like a typical Aspie difficulty.

I'm scared to even ask for an application, never mind actually having to do a job interview.

I wish I had the option to choose between recruiters