5.3 Inclusive Interviews
Employers are allowed to ask questions about an applicant’s ability to perform specific job functions.
What are employers allowed to do?
- Ask all interview candidates the same job-related questions, and score their responses using an interview question scoring grid (which you can easily find on the Internet).
- Ask questions that focus on “how” the applicant will apply their skills to perform job tasks (as opposed to asking whether they “can” do the job).
- Ask questions that focus on “how” applicants would handle a particular situation.
What should employers be mindful of?
Interviewers should not ask any questions that would require an employee to directly or indirectly disclose a disability unless the question is related to a bona fide occupational requirement.For more details on bona fide occupational requirements, consult
Tool #4 Recruitment.
Interviewers should check their own personal and cultural assumptions about body language and other non-verbal communication.
For example:
If someone has a weak handshake because of a disability, might you be sub-consciously influenced by the fact that in Western culture, it is normally valued to have a strong handshake?If someone is not able to make a direct eye contact because of a visual impairment, might you perceive them differently since in our Western culture, eye contact is considered important?
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