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Aditya Mittal
1mo
Its a way to check if you will make a good corporate slave or not
Brigid Leishman
1mo
Standard psych tests do not recognise that everyone learns differently. Giving pattern recognition tests to people who are not visual means they will get a rubbish outcome and it has zero to do with their ability or intellect.
Tom Patnaik
1mo
Pre employment testing is a hold-over from the past command-and-control top-down mindset. It has no place in the modern day workplace where good employees are hard to find and the interview is as much about the company as it is about the candidate.
These kind of assessments really only tell you about how someone can take an assessment. Even in the work I've seen where people use MBTI, StrengthsFinder, Colors, etc, assessments are done and then end there. They don't have any follow up around skill development, mentoring, or training based on what was learned. So even after someone gets a job they're often mildly informative at best, discriminatory at worst. Using assessments as part of hiring is cumbersome and produces incomplete data on how skilled a person actually would be at their job.
Caitlyn Johnston
1mo
I believe that when these tests ask you to develop something, like a quick start guide to a new app that'syour own idea, the company is looking to poach your idea and not pay for it. I always put a copyright in the footer. (C) year [Your name]
Jared Slaven
1mo
I have dealt with these tests more recently and found them very off putting. It made me no longer interested in the role. I also didn’t feel I tested well as I was overcome with angst about the process at that point.
Lauri P.
1mo
Every individual learns and teaches in their own unique way. It appears, however, that the current approach is seeking individuals through a standardized method, leaving little room for a diverse team. This homogeneity can stifle creativity and innovation. I believe it is more beneficial to surround oneself with people from various backgrounds, as they bring diverse perspectives and ideas.
Albert Lugosi
1mo
This nonsense should be made illegal. I wouldn't allow any recruiter to examine my teeth, bowl flora or DNA sequence. Because none of them are experts of these fields, and they're none of their business anyway. The same applies to personality traits. If they want to have fun, they should buy a magazine, go hiking or something.
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1moI have taken way too many of these pre-employment tests, and it bothers me that there is a whole industry based on tricking leaders into using pseudoscience to hire people. There is a lot of cherry-picking of data and confirmation bias.