Develop Your Skills Exercise: The best test of any question posed to a job applicant is whether
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Develop Your Skills Exercise: 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 to make the hiring decision, will adversely affect and screen out minorities or members of one sex.
This chapter’s Develop Your Skills feature presented five improper interview questions (provided again here), along with an explanation of why each question should be avoided. Working with a partner, 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.126
a. How many children do you have?
b. What is your native language?
c. To what clubs or organizations do you belong?
d. What is your height? What is your weight?
e. Are you able to work on Christmas Day?
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