[freepinglurker]

I have been job hunting for a few months now (I have years of sales experience) and they have all seemed to want you to go through this 3 month journey of just about everything. My most recent experience has gone like this and all have been similiar: Mountains of paperwork/applications/questionaires,background check, criminal check etc... 2 phone interviews, I have been through 4 interviews with numerous questions and several interviewers, a day in the field with an existing representative, lunch with all the other representatives, a company networking function on and on and on. Now they want me to take a silly personality profile. I have had just about enough. Is this normal these days? What's next genetic testing, maybe a dna sample for hiring purposes? Maybe bank statements, a copy of my family tree? I am so sick of this. What do you think of this? Is privacy gone? why do employers think they need all this to sell their product?

[napscoordinator]

I think I have taken a personality test for a job a time or two. It was no big deal and in fact I was hired so I don't think people should be afraid of them.

[chit*chat]

My husband is also in sales and has on occasion taken these tests. They are sold as a cure-all to the company who then use them to get their ROI.

He does not come though these as a 'sales type'. On one occasion an employer ignored the results and hired him anyway.

He tracked down the person/professor who created and sold this to the company and brought a W2 with him to make a point about the fallability of this test.

It is very frustrating when you have little or no control over your future. Employers already do credit checks prior to hiring. and yes, I think DNA testing will be part of the hiring process in the future. Good thing we all die. It evens the playing field somewhat!

[Musket]

I am so sick of this.

I hear ya. I'm going through the same stuff right now. The thing that kills me is the fact that they won't hire you if you have what "somebody" considers to be excessive debt. Well, if you've been unemployed for a while you're gonna have amassed some debt. How do they ever expect you to pay it back if they won't give you a freekin' job? That just blows my mind. I'd really like to meet the genius that came up with that one - and slap him senseless.

[ColdSteelTalon]

My Army training taught me how to answer questions that are intended to get into your head. Personaltiy tests don't work on me because I know how to answer in such a way that pleases them and they get nothing.

I knew that counter interrogation training would someday be useful useful in civilian life.

When the corporations and the state become police like in nature thats when it becomes useful. ;)

[zeaal]

One of our college kids applied for a PT position with a major office supply retailer. She was asked to take 'the test'. She said some of the questions were near ridiculous and sort of did not take them serious and answered 'silly'. She was disqualified as a candidate not because she did not have the experience they were seeking, not because of her excellent work history but because she got 'silly' with the answers on the personality test.

You live you learn (or at least she did).