when
interviewing applicants, apply the same standard that is applied to
job applications – ask only about things that are directly
related to the job requirements for the position under consideration
tell the
managers who conduct interviews to be extremely careful about
note-taking during interviews – anything like that can be
discovered in a claim or lawsuit – many discrimination cases
have been lost due to careless and/or embarrassing comments written
by interviewers
watch out
for tape-recording – the applicant might be tape-recording the
interview without an employer's knowledge, and a video- or
tape-recording of an interview would be discoverable in a
discrimination claim or lawsuit
test for whether something should be written down: would you feel comfortable explaining it in front of a judge and twelve total strangers who are being coached by a plaintiff's attorney who is skilled at calling employers' motives into question?
