Interviewing

What can you ask? What can't you ask? A guide for all interview and screening questions is to make them all job-related. Specifically, the federally protected classes of race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, disability, national origin, and veteran status, as well as any other classes protected by the university, such as sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, must be avoided. How? By the committee developing search criteria and interview questions based on job duties and qualifications, and using the same criteria and questions for each applicant interview. It is also important to inform all persons who may be interacting with each candidate — such as student members of the interview panel, or departmental employees who may provide assistance during the search but are not on the committee — of illegal questions.

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