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We did one interview with a candidate who had a great looking resume and was from a town somewhat close to a city I used to live in. Started off with some gener

We did one interview with a candidate who had a great looking resume and was from a town somewhat close to a city I used to live in. Started off with some general get to know you talk and asked him about where he was from... crickets. Then went into his experience and it 100% did not line up with what was on his resume. I started asking questions about the jobs on his resume and he hung up. My PM, who was also on the call, had looked up the name on the resume and found the linked in of guy whose resume had been stolen. We notified him that someone was using his resume and actually ended up interviewing him! We came close to hiring him but his salary ask was out of our price range.

grahamplace 4y ago
I'm not sure the exact rules here (and you might not be in the US), but you might want to avoid asking candidates "about where they are from" > Any questions that reveal your age, race, national origin, gender, religion, marital status and sexual orientation are off-limits. > "State and federal laws make discrimination based on certain protected categories, such as national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, disabilities, arrest and conviction record, military discharge status, race, gender, or pregnancy status, illegal. > Any question that asks a candidate to reveal information about such topics without the question having a job related basis will violate the various state and federal discrimination laws," Lori Adelson, a labor and employment attorney and partner with law firm Arnstein & Lehr, tells Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/11-illegal-interview-questions-2013-7 https://www.businessinsider.com/11-illegal-interview-questio...
- happyopossum 4y ago
  Err, not relevant here. GP specifically said the interviewee “was from a town somewhat close to a city I used to live in”, so this is information that was already disclosed. If you’re interviewing for a US position, making small talk about where the interviewee lives is absolutely not out of bounds.

grahamplace 4y ago

I'm not sure the exact rules here (and you might not be in the US), but you might want to avoid asking candidates "about where they are from" > Any questions that reveal your age, race, national origin, gender, religion, marital status and sexual orientation are off-limits. > "State and federal laws make discrimination based on certain protected categories, such as national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, disabilities, arrest and conviction record, military discharge status, race, gender, or pregnancy status, illegal. > Any question that asks a candidate to reveal information about such topics without the question having a job related basis will violate the various state and federal discrimination laws," Lori Adelson, a labor and employment attorney and partner with law firm Arnstein & Lehr, tells Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/11-illegal-interview-questions-2013-7 https://www.businessinsider.com/11-illegal-interview-questio...

happyopossum 4y ago
Err, not relevant here. GP specifically said the interviewee “was from a town somewhat close to a city I used to live in”, so this is information that was already disclosed. If you’re interviewing for a US position, making small talk about where the interviewee lives is absolutely not out of bounds.