I have been an HR professional for over twenty years prior to retiring. 
That type of questionnaire sounds like it may not be legal, and certainly 
not as an initial screening tool.  The questions need to be job-related. 
You can do some type of personality screening if it has been validated to 
match the job requirements.

We started computer screening of résumsé using a scanning program.  There is 
a secret to designing your resume to work with those programs.  Basically, 
make your resume customizable; look at the job description for the job your 
interested in; look at some of the key words in the Knowledge Skills and 
Abilities section, and make sure you have some of those in your résumé that 
you are submitting.

Sorry for the off-topic post, but if this is relevant in your job-hunt or 
for a family member or friend, I'd thought I'd pass it along.

Steve, K8SP
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: OT jobs and such.


> Howard,
>
> Interesting what you said about computers screening job applications.
>
> My son is looking for a temporary job and tried going around to 
> businesses
> near his home, unless it is a "mom & pop operation, he is told to apply
> on-line.  The questions asked on-line are ridiculous.  In some cases you 
> are
> given some 10 to 15 choices to describe your feelings about different
> subjects and asked to pick the top 2 then the next 4 until you have gone
> through the whole list putting them in order of importance.  This 
> continues
> for  several subjects.