A survey of 2,000 UK employees and hiring managers from Hyper Recruitment Solutions found 85% of interviewers admitted asking ‘off-limits’ questions during the recruitment process. People Management report that the survey revealed that 56% of recruiters confessed they had asked a candidate whether they had children, while 51% said they had asked whether somebody was married. 46% had quizzed candidates about the origins of their accents and 45% queried whether a jobseeker had grown up outside the UK. 47% of recruiters revealed they had never received formal training on the questions to ask during an interview.
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