We on here as like minded individuals know that cycling is a good, safe, healthy way of getting about that in the long term provide health benefits over our more sedentary fellow humand so we're probably not the best audience to ask.
I know many of my friends and colleagues adamantly have cycling, particularly Commuting, in the same risk category as skydiving with a wet paper parachute while strapped to an anvil.
Potential injury/sick leave/ death could be a casting vote factor in a non cycling employers mind between 12 odd stone of squishy you appearing vulnerable to everyone in a vehicle and the nice sensible other candidate that turned up in a 5 star safety rated reinforced steel cage & surrounded by airbags.
Find out what you can about your audience and play it to your advantage or at least not to your disadvantage.