Knowing a company might be reluctant to hire you based on your condition, what would you do?
1. Don't immediately mention your disease during the interview. Instead, play up your abilities, experience, and enthusiasm for the job. If you get hired, you can explain your illness and make up for missed work owing to medical appointments and flare-ups by working on weekends.
2. Bring up your disease right away. You don't have to provide vivid details about your symptoms, but it is important for your employer to know you have a chronic disease and how it will affect you.
3. Don't mention your disease at all. If you get the job and have a flare-up and need to take sick days, it is your business.
4. Invent other options. Discuss
You've just graduated from college and are excited to begin job hunting. You have many exciting prospects, but there is one thing holding you back-you were recently diagnosed with scleroderma . This chronic connective tissue disease is progressive and typically kills patients within 10 years. Your doctor is positive about your prognosis; however, you have already experienced some of the effects, such as swelling and stiffening in your fingers. Federal disability laws bar employers from asking about an applicant's health. However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a company can refuse to hire an applicant whose medical condition might adversely affect the performance of a specific job function.