Is hiring based on personality a form of discrimination?

The purpose of job screening is to descriminate. Unfortunately, it is perfectly easy to setup a job requirement that prefilters a requirement to be so narrow that any suitable candidate will likely fit the stereotype the hiring team wants. This is structural discrimination. Is it illegal to descriminate based on personality-fit? No. read more

So yes, hiring is often a form of discrimination based on personality. But that doesn't mean or wrong or illegal. Discriminating based on gender, religion, race and age would be wrong, and in many cases illegal. read more

Title VII: Discrimination Cases and Employer Personality Tests. Civil rights laws prohibit employers from discriminating based on characteristics such as race, country of origin, religion, age, sexual orientation and gender. Any test that is found to have been designed, intended or used to discriminate may lead to legal problems for the employer. read more