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Questions you can't ask job applicants

Questions you can't ask job applicants

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Questions you can't ask job applicants

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- Don't you wish you could go into a job interview and ask the job applicant any questions you want? Like what their age might be? Or family structure is? Or financial status is? Well, you can't. Equal Employment Opportunity laws, disability laws, privacy laws, retaliation laws, and dozens of other laws apply to the hiring process. As a result, it would be illegal in most circumstances to ask somebody's age, national origin, religion, marital status, whether they have a disability, whether they have ever previously filed a worker comp claim, and other questions that may come within the protections created by these laws. The EEOC states that information requested through the pre-employment process should be limited to what is essential for determining if a person is qualified for the job. Information regarding race, sex, national origin, age, and religion are considered irrelevant in such determinations unless there's a unique business reason justifying it. Employers are also…

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