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Are you allowed to require a TOEFL score? I work in academia and find it’s pretty indicative of good English comprehension, and universally done by internationa

• eropple 8y ago
  I'm not sure, to be honest. I've always had to go through on-site intermediaries, after whose filtering pass I would pretty much downcheck everybody else.
• Izkata 8y ago
  AFAIK that's legal grey area. Aptitude tests in the US are generally illegal because they act as stand-ins for IQ tests, with the specific exception of ability tests proven to be relevant to the job at hand. That's why programming tests get a pass for programming jobs. So I think it would depend on if you could convince a judge that the TOEFL score is relevant to the job at hand, and not just being used as a discriminatory stand-in for an IQ test.
• opwieurposiu 8y ago
  It is legal (at least based on the guidelines provided by the US Department of Labor: http://www.onetcenter.org/dl_files/empTestAsse.pdf http://www.onetcenter.org/dl_files/empTestAsse.pdf) to give people all kinds of tests as long as (a) they do not select against certain protected traditionally disadvantaged classes more than it does for the average applicant or (b) if it does, there is a demonstrable link between the test and ability to perform job functions (so, for instance, a test of strength in a job that involves lots of lifting may select against women, but if strength is highly correlated with job performance, that is OK).