Somehow I feel that I'm lucky in the sense that I never had any interviews directly with an employer.
Especially since I don't have any degree, I'm kinda bound to apply for jobs through job agencies, and they just look at your experience, education and all that, eventually they'll call you to come over for a talk and ask if you'd like to try that job and all. In that way I prefer to be treated like a number instead of a person I guess. Because I just know when I actually have to "sell myself" and or just them judging me on how I talk, act, or just in general how I look or dress, that'll mostly likely give them an opinion about me, which in my opinion is totally biased. And that usually ends up in arguments up to point where I've been kicked out of job agencies because I just stated a few facts they didn't like... I wasn't rude, but I just questioned a lot of stuff, which I think is my right in terms of them getting correct information... yet they already thought "if he's asking this much right now, this'll go sour if he gets a job and keeps asking stuff like that".
In The Netherlands there's a lot of "affirmative action" going on because of the big amount of immigrants. So eventually names get blocked out and stuff like that. But weirdly enough employers already drawing from that affirmative action bin already know what they're getting... I feel there should be something like that for people who are disabled in any way. Just because one doesn't have a high school diploma or doesn't have 10 years of job experience doesn't mean he's not qualified... so if anything just leave that out, expect people as a blank slate... a tabula rasa and go from there. That'll get people that actually want a job employed I feel.
But I feel I'm diverging a bit;
So yeah, I've had interviews, but mostly through job agencies. Send my personal information, education, previous job experience and go from there.
Those talks in general don't make me nervous or anything. I feel that I can make myself clear in what I can and cannot do, what experience I do have, and can usually answer all their questions without a problem. WIth that I should say; I'm quite honest about it. If they ask me "what are your ambitions"... I'm not gonna tell them I want to get a management position at the company, because I really don't aspire that. I hate lying for such reasons. Weirdly enough it's what people want to hear though, even if it's totally clear that you do not have the intelectual capacity to get such a job/position. I hate how there's no reality check where they tell you "no, you can't do that".. but they will "abuse" you in the sense that you live with expectations which you can never achieve and they know it, and thus you keep yourself motivated. If I have to try really hard to keep myself motivated, I'm quite sure it's either a ****** job, or I'm at a ****** point in life... But I'm going on a tangent again, lol.