Federal Guidelines in Employment Interviewing: What You Can and Cannot Ask

When interviewing potential employees, managers should frame questions and pose situational scenarios that are performance focused. But questions must follow federal guidelines as set out by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Any time a manager undertakes an employment interview, he or she must be certain about what can and cannot be asked and said in such pre-employment interviews. Below is a partial list of lines of inquiry that can and cannot be explored in such interviews. You CAN: Ask about previous employment including job performance But…