Interview Questions – Appropriate or Inappropriate?
The word “appropriate” as used in the heading means that the question asked is justified by business necessity and the word “inappropriate” refers to a question that is asked that could give rise to a claim of illegal discrimination. Employment application forms and pre-employment interviews are the appropriate instruments for eliminating, at an early stage, unqualified or unsuitable persons from consideration for employment. However, applications and interviews can also be used to restrict or deny employment opportunities for individuals because of their race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, or marital status. These different classifications are called protected categories. It is inappropriate to ask pre-employment questions that may disproportionately screen out members of a protected category and are not valid predictors of successful job performance, or which cannot be justified by “business necessity.” The guiding principal behind any question to a job a
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