What is meant by "at-will employment" and what advice would you give an organization considering this type of employment relationship? How does it benefit the employer and the employee? Develop Your Staffing Skills: Inappropriate Interview Questions The best test of any question posed to a job applicant is whether the employer can demonstrate a job-related necessity for asking the question. Because both the intent behind the question and how the information is to be used by the employer are important, an employer should consider whether the answers to the question, if used in making the selection, will adversely affect and screen out minorities or members of one sex. This chapter's Develop Your Staffing Skills feature presented five improper interview questions (provided again here), along with an explanation of why each question should be avoided. Identify what the employer really wants to know by asking each question and come up with an alternative way to find out the same information