Deaf Job

Interviews
Difficulties during deaf job interviews
• Many companies do not short list the deaf for job interviews
• The interviewee must rely on the interpreter to convey accurate
information
• In the particular passage discussed, David Peter had trouble
downloading the software needed for a Skype interview
Lack of
Online
Resources
Lack of online resources
• A huge portion of online tutorials are videos – with no captions or
tutorials.
• People who are deaf are unable to tap into this world of knowledge as
they have no way to access this information.
• As a programmer, David Peter especially struggled in this area as most
of the written information in his field was only surface information.]
• In his words, he learned by a combination of “getting lucky, enrolling
in formal classes, poring over books, Googling, finding Stacks
Overflow and making things.”