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by solsenNet 5567 days ago
Yeah, this recruitment thing he laid out is illegal on several dimensions.

1. employer is obligated to advertise broadly enough to generate a diverse applicant pool (for protected classes). 2. personal reference is prohibited along similar lines.

IMPORTANT: by the sheer fact of your pool not being diverse, you have liability! does not matter if you treat every protected class applicant really well! The NON-DIVERSE POOL ALONE creates a legal liability.

This is also illustrative because VC's often say the'll help company management with operational issues, but because VC's are so sheltered (don't have to hire a lot) they don't know these basic issues.

Any company CEO worth his salt is very sensitive to "job applicant pool" issues, and funny that the operations value add from a VC is going to lead some poor CEO into a lawsuit!!

some references:

http://www.workforce.com/section/news/feature/dipping-carefu...

http://public.getlegal.com/legal-info-center/hiring-process/...