7 Tips to Avoiding Legal Pitfalls In Hiring

byDiana Maier

You’re a hiring manager or a
 
third-party search firm and pride yourself on being ethical and certainly on
 
following the law. But what about the more subtle ways you may be engaging in,
 
or forced to respond to, discriminatory hiring practices? It’s more common than
 
you imagine.

In the last year, how many times has
 
someone handed you a directive that identifies a group of ideal candidates
 
based in part on age, sex, race, or national origin? How many times has your
 
client responded to a candidate’s interview with comments on these categories?
 
Before you answer none, think about all the guises in which discrimination can
 
appear.


 

If you’re a third-party search firm,
 
has your hiring manager ever told you that the candidate is too set in his
 
ways