# Halachos of Interviews

Source: Halachipedia: Halachos of Interviews

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Categories: `Business Halacha`

Exported: 2025-12-30

## Selling Oneself
1. Based on a precedent set by Rav Moshe Feinstein, a prospective employee is required to reveal all relevant information that a interviewer would not inquire about due to reasonable mistaken assumptions, otherwise there is an issue of genevat daat (deceptive behavior).¹
2. See [Perfecting one's Middot](https://halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Perfecting%20one%27s%20Middot#humility) about the prohibition of flaunting one's good qualities.

## False Advertising
1. It is forbidden to make oneself look younger than one really is for a date, job, or other age-restricted pursuit.² One must not allow others to believe that one is a bigger scholar than one really is.³ This halacha is contributed from Pa'ot Hashulchani.
### Overstating a Positive Quality
orchot tzadikim shaar anava
### Understating or Omitting a Negative Quality
## Wearing a Kippah
## Taking an Interview on Shabbat
daber dvar

## References

¹: Igrot Moshe, Yore Deah, volume 1, Simanim 30-31

²: Sefer Chassidim 379.

³: Yerushalmi Makkot 2:6.