Screen Interview Questions for Legal Risk

When to use it

The prompt

Review these interview questions for legal and fairness risk for hiring in {{country or state}}. {{Paste the questions or the interview guide}} ROLE AND LEVEL: {{...}} WHO ASKS THEM: {{recruiters, engineers, the hiring manager}} ANYTHING ALREADY FLAGGED: {{by legal or HR}} For each question that's a problem: 1. Quote it, name what it touches, and say how likely it is to come up in practice rather than in theory. 2. Give me a replacement that gets at the same real information lawfully. 3. Say whether the problem is the question itself, or only where a follow-up would go. Then: 4. The questions that are fine as written, listed briefly so I know you read them. 5. What an interviewer is likely to ask spontaneously in this loop that isn't on the list but should be warned about. 6. Where the rules differ enough by jurisdiction that I need to check specifically for {{country or state}}. Treat this as general guidance rather than legal advice, and tell me which items are worth putting in front of counsel.

Tip

Most of the risk isn't in the written guide, it's in the small talk before the interview starts. Point five is the part worth sending to the panel, because it changes what actually gets asked.

How to use it

Paste the prompt into ChatGPT, Claude or whichever assistant you use, then replace every {{bracketed}} part with your own detail. The more specific and messier your input, the better the output — a model given raw notes has more to work with than one given a tidy summary you wrote first.

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