are people with as less likely to get jobs?

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my friend said they are because she says her boyfriend has as and he got turned away at a job interview because of his as.
im 16 but i was just wondering your take on it.
xx

My brother has AS. Just in observation of his situation I can tell you that his AS has influenced his opportunities. Negatively. Presentation is everything at an interview. Doesn't matter that they would unlikely find a harder working person with a work ethic such as he has... They just don't bite..

Zort

I myself have always been employed since I was 15. I am, however, employed well below my capacity. Still got good pay, but no one has taken a punt and given me a job worthy of my skill levels. I do not interview well. The jobs I have gotten have been largely because there has been no one else applying.

Mostly is the problem of keeping them.
If you ever get past the complications and confusions of the Search, Interview, Paperwork.


3 of my hires came about just by my reaching exasperation and saying 'Look, I don't know how to find a job/ask for a job, but I'm good at this that or the other.'

Mostly though I am resentfully taken on, treated like garbage, run or slandered off.


Odd really.

usually not a problem, but by the time you're my age, there's other factors involved...;0
Of course, being in PC and Printer repairs, I fit right in...

I have worked continuously since I was 15 years old - except when I quit jobs for various personal reasons (none having to do with AS).

The trick is to work harder, faster and more efficiently than everyone else. If you can do that, they will overlook LOADS of the "personality issues, etc." that are inherent in AS. (Of course, I am in my mid-40s and only found out I HAD AS a few months ago - but I always knew I was different.)

It helps TREMENDOUSLY if you can get jobs in your field of special interest. I have been doing computer tech support for nearly 20 years now. I'm VERY good at it, I love it and would do it for nothing just so I could play w/ tech toys.

Boy, do I hear ya on that--when I am in an interview, it's like I have a label on my forehead that says "please ignore everything I am saying, and please ignore everything in my resume, all of my accomplishments, everything-- you don't really want me, because I'm not like you." Doesn't seem to matter what your IQ is, how many degrees you have, or how hard you work--NT's can spot you a mile away. Most jobs I've been granted have been because someone non-NT was doing the hiring. That's the case with my current position, which I can't complain too much about because the pay is better than I've ever had, I'm granted a certain level of independence, and my current boss is slightly non-NT (in my opinion) so life isn't too bad. Still, a day doesn't go by that I don't wish I was doing something different, and about what I should be doing, what my potential is, and that if given a chance, I could do great things in the world. (OK-- I'm done feeling sorry for myself now). =)

I would say that for me, it was always harder to keep a job, but easy to get it. I was trained in interviewing as part of a work incentive program I was involved in. They actually had you practice a mock interview, and they videotaped it, so that you could correct body language and stuff. I usually could charm people and make them like me, but in the long run, they would turn against me and find reasons to fire me even though I was doing my work. My daughter, who also has AS, finds it hard to keep a job longer then a few weeks to maybe a month or two.

I'm 16 years old, have AS and have been employed before...but it was voluntary and the employer was a family friend.
There was no interview [thank goodness] and he just told me what I needed to do and told me to come into work the next day. It was only for a few weeks though while another employee was away.

I have tried for a position at BurgerKing before [last year]...lets just say that after the interview, I didn't get a call back...even though the person doing the hiring said I would be a "good candidate for the job position".

Agreed. I am really scared about entering the workforce again. The jobs I have had so far were all bad. The one job I did really well at, I hated. I was a dishwasher, and I was good and fast because I worked alone and didn't have to interact with the public or do any team work.

oh well thanks all.
yeah with the interview thing im a bit worried because for college u have to get interviewd (are coming up soon) and im worried about being turned away the same as for a job pehaps.
So it probably is harder?
hmm
xx

That's exactly how I feel.
I'm not even in the U.S. jobs market and it's the same thing. . . it appears. . .

I didn't apply for a job until i left school, in my first interview i was lucky. it went quite well, he actually just read my resume and explained what the job was about etc. this is because my careers counsellor at school recommended this job to me (in a law firm on the junior level) for me cos i said something in law (not a lawyer) when he asked me what i wanted to do. I was highly recommended by him ( i was told) anyway I told him about my AS (pretty mild compared to other peeps) and explained a bit about it. He just said " you will get more comfortable when you learn what to do" anyways i got the job and i am still with the employer 5 years later. anyway he is married to my year 12 english teacher. hence the easy interview.

the whole practice of psychological tests during job interviews would make things harder for as peeps. they want peeps that they like to worth with. but people don't always like each other, and they would have to have the skills to keep themselves there too.

skilled people that are not sociable as much would get a look in.

The possible recession has me jittery, even though I am still in college.

Tim

I can definitely identify with this statement! I have had 30 interviews in the last 2.5 years and it doesn't seem to matter than I am more qualified by education, abilities, or work ethic than any other candidate. The simple fact is that I present myself slightly different than an NT would and it is that slight difference that makes me unable to obtain a job. I have even tried correcting my eye contact, posture, etc. to fit in more, but to no avail.

I am in education and I always like to say that if the kids were the ones doing the hiring, I would have had a job/career long ago!

Well, I failed my last 2 interviews. The first time it was a group interview over at starbucks, and I got a panic attack. My other interview at in n out, they said that they're "not hiring". From my prospective, yeah it does.