It's actually worse than the headline leads you to believe. These are questions POTENTIAL employers can't ask you. The headline says 'employers'. Bad headline writing. But what else is new. Probably happened because it's against the law to ask a potential page designer if they know how to write a headline that accurately leads into the article.
Anyone with that attitude will not get hired. This guy must be another Socialist. He should talk to Castro about how his model works.
..and if you’re illegal, they can’t (or should I say won’t) ask you for an id, social security card, proof of residency or any of that other good stuff us legals have to submit!
9. “Did you vote for someone other than His Excellency Obama, and if so How do you live with yourself?”
How are we going to increase diversity if we aren’t allowed to ask someone about their race?
How does age, marital status, race, or religion impact someone's qualifications for the job?
When filling jobs, most employers just ask their best employees if they know anyone suitable.
Large companies have official programs that pay thousands of dollars for referrals.
These programs exist, because a strong recommendation from a guy who know is good is worth a thousand BS interviews.
Would it be taboo to ask someone such as the author, “Porcshe Moran,” how to pronounce his or her name? Is it “Pork-she”? And would the last name be “Mor-AN,” or the more intuitively appropriate “MOR’on”?
I quit being an employer about 3 years ago. In retrospect, it may have been a good choice.
Can’t ask about what race they are; but after they’re hired, you can stand across the room and decide what race they are for government statistics, same thing they do in the public screw-ools. What’s wrong here!
Back in the day I was middle management for a multinational company for several years. I remember discussing new hire interviews over drinks on several occasions. Bottom line was yes there were a number of questions that could not be verbalized in the interview, but many of those should be in a properly formatted resume’. The unspoken bottom line was that if any of those items (and other personal things) were not written down or volunteered in the interview, the applicant had no shot at being hired. Cruel? No. Unjust? Maybe in a small way. Necessary? Absolutely. My job was to employ qualified folk who will assimilate the corporate culture and become motivated and loyal employees, not drones with issues. Applicants with secrets and poor attitude rarely evolve into good employees.
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.
ML/NJ
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)
Back in the 80’s , I was asked questions 1-6 ( 7 was obvious an d8 wouldn’t apply :-) ) all in the same interview :-)
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!
Interesting, thank you for posting this!