Posted on 11/28/2006 6:56:38 AM PST by freepinglurker
One question on the test -- "Do you believe you are Jesus Christ". I kid you not.
Sorry, off point there...anyways, one of the reasons for these tests is, of course, to justify the existence of the HR department. The other reason, which people never realize, is that the employer is "setting the tone" with the interview process. Indeed, one of the purposes of the interview process is to let the applicant know what the company is about. In that regard, you should pay attention to what a potential employer is trying to tell you.
"Frankly, HR people rarely do anything useful, unless making everyone else stressed out and angry is considered useful these days."
Double-Dog Dittos to that! IN-human Resource people are not there to help you, but to enforce layer upon layer of PC crap and bureaucracy.
The ugly truth is that lawyers, the PC Police, the ACLU, etc have made it damn near impossible to fire someone these days. If you do wish to terminate someone, the process is lengthy and often painstaking, mainly due to fears of retallitory litigation, unemployment hearings, and mountains of paperwork.
Thus, we're a lot more selective in who we hire. Managers need to be absolutely certain that the person they're hiring is the best "long term" fit for the position. Long gone are the days when you could hire and fire at will, for any reason, and not face legal repurcussions.
We use a couple of different assessments in our hiring processes, depending on the level of the position. By and large, the assessments serve us well. They're written in such a way that you can tell if the person answering is simply telling you what you want to hear, or if they're truly being candid. It will ask the same question in a few different ways to glean a truthful response. We face it every day, some people can interview very well and tell you exactly what you want to hear (if I have one more person say they're a "motivated self-starter" I'll scream), but turn out to be complete disasters once they've been hired.
These assessments serve as an effective way to ferret through the BS. They also give you ammunition to justify your decisions should someone claim you discriminated against them during the hiring process.
Sweet!
Do these outsourced companies keep this info for all the world to see? It requires my name/addresss etc... to take the profile.
Perfect job for Obama (empy suit)
Good grief
The PC police in corporate HR are trying to label you from the git-go... and if you don't fit their 'flavor-of-the-month'... see ya' later.
No harm, no foul.
Did she lose her partnership?
I had to take a personality test once as part of an interview process. The test had insane questions which asked for level of agreement/disagreement, such as, "I am usually comfortable on the edge of a ledge." I'm serious, that was one of the questions.
There were other questions like that, which made me feel like they were going to issue me a high-powered rifle and a copy of the President's schedule. I had to double check that the company I had applied to was not called "Parallax".
After a great deal of delay, they offered me the job and a very nice salary. I declined and told them the test was the reason.
Heck, I had to take a lie detector test for a job 30 years ago. I don't trust lie detector tests after that. It indicated I lied on a question (theft related) I told the truth on and indicated I told the truth on a question I lied big time on (drug question).
Personally, I have no objections to taking a personality test, but I will not take a lie detector test. First, I've never known a lie detector administrator that has as clean a criminal history as I do, and second, everyone, and I mean everyone, has done things they'd just as soon no one else know about. I've turned down four jobs because they either demanded a lie detector test or demanded I sign a form agreeing to take one if they told me to.
It is the new diversity tool. I work in a group that has more highly driven people than the other personalities combined. If you want to see some fun, put two strong personalities on the opposite side of a topic.
Think so?
I see no problem with a personality test. The rest of the run-around you describe is ridiculous, though.
Amen.
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