{"id":19669,"date":"2017-09-28T11:57:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/?page_id=19669"},"modified":"2024-07-29T11:41:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T16:41:25","slug":"illegal-questions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/how-to-guides\/interview-guide\/questions\/illegal-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"What are illegal questions and tactful responses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p>Interviewers may be breaking the law if they ask the following questions<\/p>\n<h3>Personal details<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>How old are you?<\/li>\n<li>How much do you weigh?<\/li>\n<li>How tall are you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Personal relationships<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Are you married, divorced, separated, or single?<\/li>\n<li>Are you living with anyone?<\/li>\n<li>Are you practicing birth control?<\/li>\n<li>What does your spouse\/partner think about your career?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Social or political affiliations<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>What social or political organizations do you belong to?<\/li>\n<li>Do you attend church\/services\/prayer meetings regularly?<\/li>\n<li>Have you ever been arrested?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Personal finances<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you own or rent your home?<\/li>\n<li>Do you have many debts?<\/li>\n<li>How much insurance do you have?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>There are two main ways to respond tactfully.<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>You can choose not to answer the question.<\/strong>\u00a0It is within your rights not to answer. Respond politely but firmly, saying something like, \u201cThis question makes me uncomfortable. May I speak about my professional experiences instead?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>You may choose to answer the question.<\/strong>\u00a0If you get the job, you can work from within the organization to bring the problem to their attention.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h6>Note<\/h6>\n<p>If you believe that you\u2019ve been asked an illegal question, please contact the Piper Center.<br \/>\n<a class=\"cta\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/how-to-guides\/interview-guide\/thank-you-notes\/\">Thank you notes: Why do I need to send a thank you note?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interviewers may be breaking the law if they ask the following questions Personal details How old are you? How much do you weigh? How tall are you? Personal relationships Are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8275,"featured_media":0,"parent":19653,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19669","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19669"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41130,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19669\/revisions\/41130"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}