| Topic Name: |
Inappropriate Job Interview Question |
| Message Name: |
National Origin identity question |
| Date Posted: |
06/25/2002 |
| Message: |
Is it really legal for a prospective employer to ask a national origin question when interviwing for a position. I asked this because a hiring manager recently asked me similar question. See, my last name is Asian sounding, i.e., people often mistake me for a Japanese. This oftentimes gets me to the door due largely to preference for Asian, i.e., Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian, H1B visa workers in the job market. While I have no problem for employers exercising whatever preference they may have, I think it's against the law to blatantly demostrate this preference by asking in-appropriate questions like, "what country are you from." I thought the job interview, where this question was asked, went very well since I had great rapport with everybody including the hiring manager's boss and also aced a very difficult and technical problem solving test they admnistered during the interview; however, I was turned down for this job and just wondering if I was advertently discrimininated against.
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