Originally posted by elsergiovolador
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Originally posted by elsergiovolador View PostPersonality is something you are born with and you cannot change it just like you cannot change your skin colour.
I think these types of tests should be illegal as they facilitate discrimination.
It is a good filter of bad employers though.Comment
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Originally posted by hairymouse View PostActually the math one should be illegal as well since it discriminates against those who's short term memory has gone up in smoke. Strangely silent so far from the previously excited HR person.Comment
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Originally posted by elsergiovolador View PostPersonality is something you are born with and you cannot change it just like you cannot change your skin colour.
I think these types of tests should be illegal as they facilitate discrimination.
It is a good filter of bad employers though.Comment
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Originally posted by jayn200 View PostThey're not measuring personality anyway. They're measuring your ability to game a personality test. You can research how to manipulate these tests to get ideal results.
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Originally posted by elsergiovolador View Post
It is a good filter of bad employers though.
Every time I've interviewed and I a) liked the interviewers and b) thought the process fair, reasonable and sometimes fun the subsequent role was great and I enjoyed my time there. Every time I went through some bull process to get in I ended up working with insufferable tw*ts.Comment
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Originally posted by GhostofTarbera View PostExactly I am now a master
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Originally posted by hairymouse View PostI've just been asked to do two of these ridiculous personality tests for a permie role. The first was a test to see how much you can follow directions, how many hoops you will jump through, how much short term memory you have and if you will follow directions. There was 20 minutes of a flash app saying "Bob is shorter than mary" and then it would dissapear and the question would appear - "Who is taller, Bob or Mary?" Then there was another 30 minutes of identifiying what capital Rs match others when rotated and how many sets of letter match up.
The second was even worse, an amateur personality test asking me 75 times if I am more "trusting or vigorous?" Are you more pioneering or optimistic?
Maybe next they will ask me to send in a handwriting sample for analysis.
Two hours wasted, I almost hope I failed so I don't have to work with ******* who believe in those kind of tests..
Anyone had experience with this?Comment
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Originally posted by billybiro View PostImagine the kind of company that you'd be working for who think that such tests are valuable. Then ask yourself if that's the kind of company you actually want to work for.
Unfortunately, our new reality is that I will spend 30 minutes counting the rows that have a different letter in them for the possibility of being granted a telephone interview for a role earning half of my last one. Everyone reading this might no be at that point yet, but you will be soon.Comment
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostNo point asking this load of chumps. Most of them think they've passed by even having a personality and even then they are just kidding themselves.
You need to find someone who's won an internationally recognised award for their personality to ask.Originally posted by Stevie Wonder BoyI can't see any way to do it can you please advise?
I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.Comment
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