Once upon a time, it was considered a faux pas for interviewers to ask about your family life or political affiliations.  However, as many jobs are now filled through social networking, that is friends setting up other friends, it is infinitely more common to be asked about those or other personal topics during a job interview.

It is illegal to discriminate based on gender, race, national origin, marital status, sexual preference, religious belief, age or disability. Interviewers usual...

Did you check your CV, Resume and Cover Letter for spelling and grammatical errors before you emailed it to every job vacancy you could find?  There is no faster way to put your job application in the recycling bin than through errors in spelling and bad use of grammar.

The job market is such that every single job is over-subscribed and employers and recruiters get hundreds of CV’s and Resumes per job vacancy.  A manageable number of applications can only be reached by rejecting those...