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When you apply for a new job, it's critical to pay close attention to the application to make sure that your diagnosis does not affect your chances of landing the job.

When you apply for a new job, it's critical to pay close attention to the application to make sure that your diagnosis does not affect your chances of landing the job. Consider the following suggestions:

  • Give enough information to give the prospective employer a reason to meet you.
  • Avoid information that could eliminate you from the interview. Under the federal Americans With Disabilities Act, and similar state laws, a prospective employer cannot ask about your health condition in an application. However, the law does permit an employer to ask about your health:
    • To the extent that your health may affect your ability to do the job in question, and
    • If the employer asks all prospective applicants the question.
  • Prepare in case you're asked the general question: "Why did you leave your last job?" If you left because of health reasons, use a general answer that applies to you such as "career change," "try working on my own" "improve my skills," "I had to attend to a personal or family matter" "I needed time off to deal with an illness in the family." If nothing else seems to fit, "will discuss."
  • Read the fine print of each job application carefully. It may authorize more investigation than you're willing to permit. Of course, if you refuse to authorize a background check, you probably won't get the job.
  • If it appears that the employer will contact your previous employer, colleagues and neighbors, alert them that they might be asked to provide information about you.  This helps avoid suspicion and alerts you to possible problems.
  • Whatever you do, do not lie. A lie on your application could be a ticking bomb because it is cause for termination after you have the job.

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