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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is illegal for people to inquire about your marital or parental status in a job interview.

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This is an overstatement. Marital or parental status are not protected classes under federal law. Moreover, even if they were, this does not make the subject off-limits, it just means you can't discriminate on that basis, so you need to be careful with creating the impression that you are doing this. But you have to balance this concern for false optics with business needs. You can certainly ask a question about a gap in a resume even if the answer might cause someone to volunteer information about their marital or parental status.

And I certainly can decline to hire someone if I don't think they have the wherewithal to overcome a missing 10 years of experience. In some fields, perhaps that doesn't matter, but in my field, you will have missed 10 years of statutory and regulatory changes that translate to thousands of pages of reading, and thousands of hours of hearing client's facts and applying these changes to them. It's not impossible to overcome but the person's experience basically reverts back to fresh out of school.[/quote]

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