JimNtexas
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This is in no way a critical comment, I'm justwondering about bustingmins observations that in one interview "They were curious about my job history, my family and the life I had outside of the flight deck".
Are questions about "family and the life I had outside the flight deck" typical in airline interviews?
I ask because I occasionally interview for positions in the non-aviation world for engineering and accounting type jobs.
I have always been told to never, ever, ask personal questions about the interviewees family, and to be very careful about asking about his non-work related pastimes. I've been told by employment lawyers that the further you stray from strictly work related topics in the interview, the more you invite lawsuits from both the people you pass over and the ones you hire.
Is airline hiring different than the tech and accounting fields in this respect? Do airline interviewees typically get asked about their family, hobbies, and other non-work related parts of their life?
Are questions about "family and the life I had outside the flight deck" typical in airline interviews?
I ask because I occasionally interview for positions in the non-aviation world for engineering and accounting type jobs.
I have always been told to never, ever, ask personal questions about the interviewees family, and to be very careful about asking about his non-work related pastimes. I've been told by employment lawyers that the further you stray from strictly work related topics in the interview, the more you invite lawsuits from both the people you pass over and the ones you hire.
Is airline hiring different than the tech and accounting fields in this respect? Do airline interviewees typically get asked about their family, hobbies, and other non-work related parts of their life?
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