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Nowadays many companies are requiring phone interviews to select potential candidates for interviews. Lately, I have been hearing stories of a few of my deaf friends getting disqualified as potential candidates because they didn't "give" a good phone interview. The reasons...relay is too slow, misunderstandings, or mispronounction.
I remembered 10 years ago, I applied for a teaching job at a public school and I had to do a phone interview. It was new for me so I did it through the relay. The relay was too slow so I got disconnected by the interviewer. When I called again, I learned that I was disqualified. Now, I wish I had filed a discrimination suit but I was new at them.
Do you think phone interviews put deaf people in an unequal playing field?
I remembered 10 years ago, I applied for a teaching job at a public school and I had to do a phone interview. It was new for me so I did it through the relay. The relay was too slow so I got disconnected by the interviewer. When I called again, I learned that I was disqualified. Now, I wish I had filed a discrimination suit but I was new at them.
Do you think phone interviews put deaf people in an unequal playing field?