What do companies who interview look for in personality tests?
- Sunday Nov 29,2009 08:00 PM
- By diddy
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I was told I scored high in the skills test, but that the interview process ended because I did not pass the personality test? This has happened several times to me. I am still looking for work. Do I need to say that if I saw someone take a pencil home that I would rat on them? What are they looking for? When I asked exactly what was the issue they said that it was a test put together for them by an outside agency and that was all they could tell me. Thanks for any input.
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You could press the issue and tell them that you are exercising your federally guaranteed HIPAA (use the word "HIPAA" specifically) rights to full medical disclosure. Tell them you’d like specific feedback on the personality instrument which resulted in adverse impact in terms of your employment (use the phrase "adverse impact" specifically), and that you would like it delivered by a professional. That ought to give them pause.
It’s hard to say precisely what this employer was looking for. That’s a MAJOR problem with employers using personality tests for which they have no earthly idea how to properly interpret, nor what a "passing" score would look like (by the way, you cannot technically fail a personality test).
Sorry this has happened to you. The only way to keep it from happening again is to push the issue and require that they provide the feedback FROM A PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSIONAL (not some corporate drone in HR who wouldn’t know an MMPI from a hole in the wall).
Good luck with your job hunt,
~Dr. B.~
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