Job interview

[Lissy50]

I have a job interview coming up, part of the process is completing an online personality test haven't had an interview for years, is this now a thing?

I've only ever done one and it was for a civil service job. It's not standard practice but will be the easiest part of the process!

Yes I applied for jobs at premier Inn, Tesco, coop and boots and they all had an online test. They were all more scenario based ie what would you do if you saw a colleague being treated unfairly due to their race kind of thing.

I've done this for a charity sector job. I found it really interesting as they shared the results with me.
Like PP days, it's the easiest bit as you can't get it wrong. Good luck!

Thank you, I completed the test and had to email the results, it was an interesting process with a lot of random questions, it gives you a personality type at the end, hopefully my result is what they are looking for.

A Myers-Briggs type of thing? (Interesting that they were apparently first imagined by a woman for women.)

Where’ve you been? Job candidates have been taking personality tests for decades. I recall many of my fellow graduates in the late 80s taking endless personality tests as part of incomprehensibly lengthy selection processes in the City.

You can

a) Accept it as just another part of the application (probably designed to ascertain levels of compliance in staff) and complete it with alacrity.

b) Write your prospective employers a long, closely argued tract, complete with statistics from every continent, explaining why such tests are flawed, discriminatory, time wasting and unlikely to be of use in discerning the right candidate.

c) Decide to profit from knowledge and get a job working with AI / subcutaneous chips / brain scans and other 21st century means of assessing employees.

d) Decline to proceed.

We used to do them at Barclays in the 90s. An assessment centre was a new way of interview streamlining process. And there were various categories through the day including team building, problem solving and the personality test.
It rarely worked to be honest and so many people got jobs they were no good at.
My personality test doesn’t match who l am at all