6 Illegal Interview Questions to Avoid

Truth is, they can ask ANY D(#)# thing they please and there's nothing will be done about it--unless you yourself can afford a lawyer and are able to *prove* the illegal question was asked.

I have had numerous interview where 'shenanigans' were pulled and there's not a thing that can be done about it. TODAY, employers hold ALL the cards. In bad times, the authorities(state and federal) are overwhelmed with cases in addition to getting their budgets cut to enforce the law. In Good times, just move on to the next employer, because there's someone else who will need your talents.

In the case of government positions that require the ability to obtain a security clearance, it is legal to ask if the person is a US citizen as it is directly related to your ability to do the job (you can't do the work without a clearance, can't get a clearance without citizenship). It IS still illegal to ask other related questions, i.e. are you a natural-born or naturalized citizen, where are you from originally, etc.

THAT'S RIGHT ONCE I HAD A PERSON THAT DOWNLOADED A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS FROM A HUMAN RESOURCES WEBSITE AND SHE CLAIMED THE QUESTIONS WERE RELIABLE. BUT, HONEST WHEN SOMEONE ASK IF YOU ARE IN CONTEST WITH THREE PRICES ONE CRUISE, FLIGHT, CAR WITCH ONE WOULD YOU WANT AND WHY?

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Hmmm, every government job application has a REQUIRED block asking for CITIZENSHIP, in particular US CITIZENSHIP.

Too many online applications are required, with many asking for date of birth or year of HS graduation, which gives a good ballpark of a person's age. If we choose not to answer, how can someone apply for a position and not have it kicked out for being incomplete!? I believe this is done to eliminate older applicants from the pool as they could have higher group insurance premiums. This discrimination is also illegal.

For GovCentral: From my understanding GovCentral is powered by Monster (which has had security breaches - the last one that I recall was in 2006-2007). I also question the birthdate concerns that msmars raised:

msmars wrote:

"If these are questions to avoid on the interview I have one question for GovCentral Why in our profiles is our Birth Date asked for and displayed. This is not a cool thing to do, and I'm totally against it! As a job site this should not be asked for any of us to divulge. Even if it's a social site this is a huge NO!!!! It needs to be corrected!"

Haven't had this probablem with any government jobs yet, but apparently I've been asked all sorts of illegal questions for part time jobs at stores and stuff while I was in college (cough, Target, cough). Stuff about my personal life, mental health, etc. Good thing to know these are actually ILLEGAL, rather than just creepy. Wish I knew that then.