Best practices in interview questions help keep the general questions the same for each position. Follow up questions will vary as needed, but the same follow up questions should be asked of all applicants replying with the same or similar answers.
For instance if asking the question, ‘Where do you see yourself in 5 years?’ and a male and female applicant both answer with “As VP of Operations”, your follow up question for the male applicant should be, “What steps will you take to make that happen?”. Then the female applicant, “Do you think you could handle that role?”, could be bias for discrimination.
If you ask both of them both of these questions, neither could make that claim on this question.
Read more on questions that should be asked in an interview here: Interview questions: What’s legal, what’s not?
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