My kid brother has a 35% dysflyency rate (which is VERY high), however he doesn't have any secondaries so its rare that anyone even picks up on his stutter. However if someone does start to give him a funny look about it he just says something along the lines of "BTW I have a stutter." and sometimes if he gets a decent sized block he just stops for a moment and says "I need a second". Honestly no one ever gave him any problem with it. He knows he has a stutter but doesn't let it bother him or anyone else. He wasn't always confidant in front of groups but now he can walk into a room and command attention. He is in college now and he is actually in the top of his public speaking class! In case you can't tell, I'm really proud of him =) Getting to that point wasn't very easy, but he put a lot of work into it. He told me that he realized that most people wen't judging him about his speech, but rather they were just curious as to what it was. I think that this might help with your story as well, because chances are that most of the people you are interviewing are more concerned with the prospect of getting a job. When I asked him about your question he said "if you are speaking to a group of people, and at the beginning of the conversation you preface by saying that you have a stutter, then they won't say anything out loud because they would look like a jerk" Also from the therapy perspective (I'm an SLP graduate student), part of your therapy is probably going to include not avoiding in ALL situations. It would be a shame if this hindered all the great progress you have made. TL:DR: You have a lot more control being the interviewer, they have to listen to you anyway. Make them Listen.