questions you cannot ask in an interview
Webmaster November 14th, 2007
It appears there are still many companies out there that are still asking illegal questions in an employment interview. A friend of mine just forwarded to me an email she got for an administrative assistant position. The person said that there were four questions that needed to be answered:
A few questions that I have to ask:
1. How old are you?
2. Do you look like a normal person and/or presentable to take on interviews with me?
3. Are you male?
4. Do you smoke?
What is acceptable is asking for the date of birth on an employment application. You cannot explicitly ask how old someone per the age discrimination act. You cannot ask if someone smokes or not, but you can say during orientation that you have a smoke free workplace and that you give two ten minutes breaks to take care of personal reasons which can include smoking. You cannot ask if someone is male or female for fears of sex discrimination. Too many gold digging women out there using this as their defense. Just because you cannot ask these questions, there are ways around it so that you, the business owner, can hire the person that is the most qualified but is the one that you want.
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