Okay, so I sent my resume to a company in response to an advertisement for an accounting clerk position. They replied back stating that they require all job applicants to take an I.Q. test and that they would not consider anyone that scored less than 120.
I did a bit of research and my (albeit limited) understanding is that this is illegal. Anyone with some legal knowledge care to chime in?
Update:
I interviewed for this job today. It was certainly different from the job interviews that I've had until now. So I go in and they give me this little 10-question, hand written I.Q. test. I do that, then the manager comes over and asks me a few random arithmetic questions. That's done with. The manager goes on a rant for ten minutes about how retarded most people are that come in for interviews, complete with examples, and this then segues into his criticisms of the U.S. public education system. He also mentions that he would jokingly ask people if they'd served prison time and quite frequently they answered "yes." He used that to bring up the subject and ask me if I have done any prison time -- "or had a bunch of children from one night stands that I don't know about." (He was joking obviously.) We then get into my resume and we get to my college stuff. One of the questions was, "if I asked some of your professors about you, what would they say," a fairly typical question. I respond and then tell him that I can provide references from professors if he'd like. The ensuing dialogue goes something like this:
Him: "Nah, that's okay, you can just pay them to say whatever you want, so it wouldn't do much good."
Me: "Well, they make a fair bit of money, so I doubt I could pay them enough to do that."
Him: "You never know, they may be drug addicts, or have a gambling addiction, or be sex addicts with a bunch of illegitimate children they have to support or something like that."
(I thought this was really funny because I had an English professor that was discovered to be a "certified" tantra instructor.)
Me: "Or they may just be alcoholics that will do it for booze." (This seemed more likely to me given my experience with academics.)
Him: "That too."
The rest of the interview was pretty standard, with the odd off-color joke thrown in by the manager.
I did a bit of research and my (albeit limited) understanding is that this is illegal. Anyone with some legal knowledge care to chime in?
Update:
I interviewed for this job today. It was certainly different from the job interviews that I've had until now. So I go in and they give me this little 10-question, hand written I.Q. test. I do that, then the manager comes over and asks me a few random arithmetic questions. That's done with. The manager goes on a rant for ten minutes about how retarded most people are that come in for interviews, complete with examples, and this then segues into his criticisms of the U.S. public education system. He also mentions that he would jokingly ask people if they'd served prison time and quite frequently they answered "yes." He used that to bring up the subject and ask me if I have done any prison time -- "or had a bunch of children from one night stands that I don't know about." (He was joking obviously.) We then get into my resume and we get to my college stuff. One of the questions was, "if I asked some of your professors about you, what would they say," a fairly typical question. I respond and then tell him that I can provide references from professors if he'd like. The ensuing dialogue goes something like this:
Him: "Nah, that's okay, you can just pay them to say whatever you want, so it wouldn't do much good."
Me: "Well, they make a fair bit of money, so I doubt I could pay them enough to do that."
Him: "You never know, they may be drug addicts, or have a gambling addiction, or be sex addicts with a bunch of illegitimate children they have to support or something like that."
(I thought this was really funny because I had an English professor that was discovered to be a "certified" tantra instructor.)
Me: "Or they may just be alcoholics that will do it for booze." (This seemed more likely to me given my experience with academics.)
Him: "That too."
The rest of the interview was pretty standard, with the odd off-color joke thrown in by the manager.
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