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Ask and Ye Shall Receive: The Legal Way to Win the Recruitment Battle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2003

Ann D. Springer
Affiliation:
American Association of University Professors

Abstract

In the June 2002 issue, a “Concerned Professor” (CP) implored faculty to be more careful in asking sensitive questions of job candidates (“Open Letter to Political Science Faculty about What Not to Ask When Interviewing Job Candidates”). CP is right to be concerned about discriminatory interview questions, and, as CP notes, many interviewers ask questions that run afoul of anti-discrimination laws. Perhaps, CP charitably speculates, it is the increasing pressure on departments to make offers to candidates who are likely to actually take the job that has led to such personal questions about candidates' marital status, dating life and childbearing plans. Nevertheless, CP argues, these questions are inappropriate and must be left completely to the candidate to raise. If that runs the risk of losing a candidate, so be it.

Type
THE PROFESSION
Copyright
© 2002 by the American Political Science Association

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