Posted on 09/10/2010 5:33:16 AM PDT by jwparkerjr
The rough economy has made many people desperate for a job. In their eagerness for gainful employment, many people may overlook improper interview questions. Depending on how they are asked, questions about personal topics such as marital status, race and health are more than just poor manners - they are illegal under federal and some state and local laws
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He answered about past employment, but a couple mornings later the company he applied with called our house to talk to him to ask if he had worked for one of the companies he listed. I asked him why they didn't call that company and he didn't really know. I thought that was the strangest thing.
Despite the rules and quotas, wise managers hire whom they want to and ignore the rest.
“I hire a certain percentage of minorities.”
They are only referring to one race, just so you know.
ML/NJ
If the job has been advertised, a general job offer has been extended to those qualified. Unqualified may be rejected.
Most of those questions have been illegal to ask an applicant for 20 yrs or more (MSM is right on top of things as usual).
Interestingly, although they are not allowed to ask your race, a lot of employers are going to make a note if it in their records after meeting you (or at least their best guess from how you look) in order to comply with Affirmative Action and EEOC rules. (they are tracking how many people they interview of each color in order to defend themselves against lawsuits)
Are you kidding? In general people under 50 are the ones who have been convinced they are "entitled."
ML/NJ
Back in the 80’s , I was asked questions 1-6 ( 7 was obvious an d8 wouldn’t apply :-) ) all in the same interview :-)
It am surprised they would care about age for a contract position, if that is what you mean by rate. They don’t like to hire older employees because of medical costs and career path, but usually a contractor is just a body to do a job.
Maybe rates are down overall?
True dat.
My present contract was taken over by a company with all the proper "codewords". They new company is soup-sandwich.
Here’s a good question: “What’s you philosophy on submission to authority?”
In all that time, one must wonder a) how many cases of blatant age discrimination have in fact occured, b) how many have gone to court, c) how many were decided in favor of the plaintif.
Just using some fake numbers to fit my "opinion", I think it goes like this:
a)1,000
b).5
c).00001
Lots 'o luck old folk....lots o' luck!
You can’t ask those things but you are required to have them fill out an I-9. You can’t tell them what they can use but there is a list and you can’t verify if any of it is true but you can cover your behind by having them.
The day they make “homosexual” a protected class, my newly gay self is signing up.
We cut down to 2 employees, our son and one other older man who only works 4 days a week.
Interesting, thank you for posting this!
you didn’t ask him how old he is, did you?
In the meantime, watch "Project Runway" to learn the appropriate mannerisms. Practice them and you'll get the job of your dreams!
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