Careers: Illegal Interview Questions -- Be Prepared

Illegal Interview Questions -- Be Prepared

Written by Nathan Newberger

This topic will keep you alert of illegal interview questions and strategies on how to best deal with them if they do arise. This information can help you when you are interviewing for a position and also when you conduct interviews yourself.

I’ll quickly cover repparttar following:

A) Why Employer Ask Illegal Interview Questions. B) Examples of Illegal Interview Questions. C) Tips on How To Respond to Illegal Interview Questions.

FACT

U.S. law prohibits certain types of questions and you are by no means required or obligated to answer these questions. These questions are prohibited for a reason: to keep employers from unfairly trying to weed you out as a possible employee.

A) WHY EMPLOYERS ASK ILLEGAL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS. ================================================= The interview is where you get your chance to sell yourself directly to repparttar 105056 employer. During repparttar 105057 interview repparttar 105058 employer is obviously trying to learn more about you and how you may or may not fit in repparttar 105059 company.

The main reason why an employer might purposely slip in some illegal questions is basically to try and get information to keep you from getting a job. Most illegal questions revolve around personal information and asking them is usually not related to repparttar 105060 job and is often discriminatory in nature.

Another reason some employers ask illegal questions is because they just don’t know any better. Many interviewers are not trained at all and simply don’t know what is legal versus illegal. Please keep this in mind, it may just be a poorly trained, inexperienced or just curious interviewer and not meant to be harmful or discriminatory at all.

B) EXAMPLES OF ILLEGAL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS. ===========================================

Illegal questions generally fall into 4 categories: --------------------------------------------------- 1. Disabilities & Physical Skills 2. Personal Background 3. Race, Creed, or Color 4. Family & Relationship Items

10 Sample Illegal Questions: ---------------------------- 1. How tall are you? 2. Are you a US Citizen? 3. How old are you? 4. Are you really a man? 5. Are you Chinese or Japanese? 6. What religion are you? 7. Have you ever filed for bankruptcy? 8. Have you ever been arrested? 9. Are you married? 10. How many children do you have?

Don’t make these 8 writing mistakes!

Written by Rix Quinn

Is it possible to improve your writing instantly? The answer, happily, is “yes.”

While researching a book on famous speeches and essays, I found eight easily correctable mistakes writers often make. Here they are…and how to correct them instantly.

1. UNFOCUSED SUBJECT – Focus on a single theme only. Every sentence and paragraph should reinforce that topic.

2. TOO LONG – Abraham Lincoln crafted his Gettysburg Address in less than 300 words. Unless I’m specifically asked to do otherwise, I try to condense my work to one double-spaced single page (about 250 words).

3. WEAK PREMISE – Can you state repparttar major focus of your message in 20 words or less?

4. NO ATTENTION-GRABBER – The first sentence or two must quickly attract repparttar 105053 reader. Two ways to do this: (a) ask a question or (b) reveal a discovery.

5. UNLINKED PARAGRAPHS – Each paragraph should logically lead to repparttar 105054 next. One way some writers do this: (a) quickly write several paragraphs on a subject; ((b) prioritize them; (c) present them in descending order from most important to least important; (d) conclude by restating repparttar 105055 two or three most important points.

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