Put simply prospective employee psych tests are:
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A waste of the potential employer’s money
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A waste of the potential employee’s time
Here’s why:
Every job I have ever gone for has required one. Which I have completed successfully. Some jobs I’ve done well in, some jobs I’ve done not so well in
Anyone from human resources will tell you it’s to ‘weed out the weirdos’. But every company I have worked had its fair share of weirdos, bullies, corporate psychopaths and control freaks.
The testing is not real world – it’s what you say you’ll do, while sitting at a desk with a pencil and thinking of what the company wants to hear – not what you’ll actually do in a given situation.
It’s a “HR justification of existence programme”, and an insurance policy of ass covering if things don’t work out. It’s old world.
Start up blog says: Don’t waste valuable resources on them.
I have walked away from many a company that has given such useless tests. It is indeed a total waste of time and an insult to the potential employee. I do not understand who came up with this retarded idea. Of course the employee will put stuff that the company wants to hear. Retardness at its max.