Those Pre-employment Questionnaires

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I hate those questionnaires with a passion (looking at you Packfinder). Those questionnaires are like: let's make assumptions about you and your character before even doing an interview or a pre-interview screening. They're not at all designed for us autistic and neurodiverse people. Just ugh...

They are so patronising I agree with you 100%. It’s like they are designed to screen out autistic people and other neurodivergent candidates. Just an absolute joke if you ask me.

This reminds me of a recent employment assessment that I completed. It asked if I preferred to work with a team or alone. In the past, I always masked to get a job and answered “team” because I knew that was what they wanted to read. I can’t bring myself to mask anymore, so in my recent application I answered everything as honestly and with as much transparency as possible. They probably won’t hire me as a result of that honesty, but I feel so much better for being authentic. If we aren’t hired because of our autism preferences then we probably wouldn’t enjoy the job anyway.

I have an easy time with those. It's usually obvious to me what the correct answers are if I think for a few seconds. I found most school tests to be a lot harder. As for lying or misrepresenting myself, I applied for specific jobs & lots of those hypothetical scenarios would not actually happen for my job or department but could be applicable for others at those businesses. Those tests are pretty generic. I've been mostly honest on my job interviews. I think my disabilities unrelated to autism limit my employment options a lot more than my autism does. My autism mostly limits my employment by not networking to find jobs & not doing interviews well.