{"id":4656,"date":"2020-10-29T11:34:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T15:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/?p=4656"},"modified":"2025-02-24T13:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:16:23","slug":"the-hiring-process-best-practices-and-common-pitfalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/the-hiring-process-best-practices-and-common-pitfalls.html","title":{"rendered":"The Hiring Process: Best Practices and Common Pitfalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Employee Recruitment <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.<em>\u00a0<\/em> Employers must be mindful of recruiting and hiring with Equal Employment Opportunity principles in mind and must implement practices that ensure recruitment and hiring decisions are not based on an employee\u2019s protected status.\u00a0 Applications should be screened consistently &#8211; the same standards should be applied to everyone applying for the same position.\u00a0 Employers should also be mindful of the possible need to accommodate applicants who need assistance because of their medical condition or religious beliefs.\u00a0 For example, you may need to help a person with carpal tunnel syndrome fill out an application, or you may need to reschedule an interview originally scheduled for a religious holiday if the applicant&#8217;s religious beliefs prevent her from working on that day.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>The Fair Credit Reporting Act and Background Checks<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindabury.com\/firm\/insights\/the-hiring-process-best-practices-and-common-pitfalls.html\"  title=\"Continue Reading The Hiring Process: Best Practices and Common Pitfalls\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employee Recruitment Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.\u00a0 Employers must be mindful of recruiting and hiring with Equal Employment Opportunity principles in mind and must implement practices that ensure recruitment and hiring decisions are not based on an employee\u2019s protected status.\u00a0 Applications should be screened consistently &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,247,291],"tags":[],"coauthors":[296],"class_list":["post-4656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","category-labor-employment-insights","category-gingeleskie"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Hiring Process: Best Practices and Common Pitfalls &#8212; October 29, 2020 &#8212; Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook &amp; Cooper, P.C. 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