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Interview questions to avoid (USA)
Here is a general list of questions and topics to exclude from candidate interviews:
- Age, birthdate, dates of attending or graduating or graduating from schools, any questions
which tend to identify applicants age 40 or older
- Arrest record (questions about convictions are allowed but must only be considered as related
to specific job requirements)
- Attitude towards working with, supervising or being supervised by persons of another race
- Birthplace of parents, spouse
- Childcare arrangements
- Credit history, bankruptcy, credit rating, garnishment (some exceptions)
- Foreign military service history
- Language – what is first/native language
- Marital status, number and age of children and/or dependents, provisions for child care, maiden
name, history of changed name
- Medical or mental condition, illnesses, disabilities
- Membership in organizations, club, societies, lodges, fraternities
- Military service and discharge questions with dates, unfavorable discharge (other than
dishonorable)
- Names and address of spouse, closest relatives, children (except for emergency coverage and
benefits coverage – cannot specify that emergency notification must be a relative)
- National origin, birthplace, citizenship, ancestry (except for purposes of completing I-9 INS
Forms)
- Past or current claims and/or benefits under workers’ compensation
- Past refused or canceled fidelity bonding
- Photograph of candidate
- Physical attributes, height, obesity
- Political party affiliation, voting record, support of political policies
- Pregnancy, childbearing or birth control status, attitudes, plans
- Race, color, complexion, skin color, eyes, hair
- Reference questions (to candidate’s former employers) which elicit information regarding any of
these illegal topics
- Referrals – name of person who referred applicant
- Relatives, questions that ask applicant to identify relatives or close friends working for company
- Religion, religious or other holidays celebrated, activity ion church groups, requirement that
applicant include a clergy in reference list
- Residence ownership, foreign addresses, how long residing at current address, with whom
candidate resides
- Retirement plans, inheritance considerations
- Sex, sexual orientation
- Sexual harassment in employment, current or prior
- Travel – whether spouse will allow applicant to travel
- Union membership
** Underlined Items are those areas which the Illinois Human Rights Act gives the IL Department of Human Rights the authority to investigate, audit and monitor records and procedures to determine whether a company has discriminated against an employee or applicant.
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