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Company Adopts Stupid Applicant Screening Test, Employees Show How Ridiculous It Is By Taking It
Recently, Twitter user @TheWrongNoel posted a thread that highlights the importance of interdepartmental communication within an organization. They told a story about their friend struggling to find an employee for their team only to discover that HR had dismissed quite a few good candidates.
The reason was the applicants failed the new screening test. Since they had all the necessary expertise on paper, the employee of ten years decided to perform the HR task themselves. They didn’t do so well, to put it lightly.
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“When you boil it down, the bulk of work that falls into HR is aimed at keeping your current, former and prospective employees from suing the company. Said differently, HR is all about risk reduction,” alent Partner at Drive Capital wrote on HuffPost. “I’m not diminishing the importance of this work. A mature business must do all of these things well. Just like a mature business needs to maintain accurate and organized accounting records. But the skills and mindset of someone who thinks all day long about creating and following rules do not fit the mindset required to succeed in recruiting (or anything talent-related, really). Would you put an accountant in charge of customer acquisition? Probably not. So why put an HR person in charge of talent acquisition?”
Hatta said that the “H” in HR has been missing for some time. “Good recruiting is all about people. In fact, companies are nothing more than a collection of people organized around a shared set of strategies, principles, products, and customers. Not processes. When business leaders understand this, they not only become better recruiters, they create more successful businesses.”
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Nunya 6 years ago
Shoutout to any HR person reading this: These types of tests are c**p. Here's why: When a person is harried and rushed with a single question, they will often make a decision that is not their best decision. Because they felt rushed. The more questions they have to answer in a hurry, the more and more likely they will make even more poor decisions, sometimes to the point of catastrophic. In real life work situations, there are very few NOW NOW NOW moments where one has to make a decision so vital that they can't take at least ten minutes to make a decision. To force candidates into that kind of situation is not right. And, when we talking about personality, no computer is going to measure that correctly. The candidate is going to answer what they THINK the HR people want to hear rather than what they really feel or think. Which will lead to "wrong" answers that fail them. Try hiring HR people who are good at researching their work histories. Better results that way.
Karina Tóth 6 years ago
HR person here. Personality test is recruitment is so wrong on so many levels. Yes personality matters but have anninterview for god's sake!
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MRK 6 years ago
This happened to my wife...she tried for a permanent position at a company she had been doing contract work at for 3 years. She'd be doing the exact same work, just a different pay source. There was a math test involved in the interview process, which she failed because it was all College stuff she hadn't done in years and never used in her job. Her boss wanted to know why she hadn't gotten the job. She told him about the math test, which he took and also failed. She now has a permanent posting and the Math test is gone. Wish more bosses were like that!
Carol Emory 6 years ago
All I'm seeing is a bunch of HR employees that will soon be unemployed because they filled the company with useless candidates. A company can't survive without qualified skilled people. The personality test may be good AFTER the initial job process..like checking resumes, references, conducting interviews. When qualified candidates make it through, then you can find out if they're going to be a perfect fit for the company atmosphere. But I still think those personality quizzes are a bunch of bogus BS.
Daria B 6 years ago (edited)
I think those quizes are only good if the ones in charge of you are actually interested in psychology and related matters. In this case, the quiz should serve as a guide to understand each other better, not to see whether one is suitable for the atmosphere or not.
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DE Ray 6 years ago
The tweet about not hiring a candidate who didn't send a "thank you" email after an interview faintly annoys me. Do these people not know what the labor market looks like? I'm not sending you a "thank you" for bestowing the gift of my time taking the interview. Employers need employees way more than employees need employers. I've weighed four job offers at once recently, and if one of those had wasted my time by expecting me to grovel for the work, I would take a moment to warn others away from that company - but otherwise it wouldn't impact me at all.
DE Ray 6 years ago
I would also like to tell the story about skilled technicians. A wealthy man in my area recently bought a business of which the major feature was a $800,000 printing press. He required all the employees to re-apply for the jobs they were doing, and would only re-hire at 10% less than what they had been paid. The pressman didn't reapply, and left. He was one of less than 300 people in the country who know how to operate that press - only a handful live within a day's drive of the company and already have good jobs. The new owner is now desperately trying to sell the business he just bought because he didn't respect the employees.
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it's me again 6 years ago
Hahaha. They just fired our HR person because she procrastinated, never followed up on anything, didn't hire anyone and used those worthless tests instead of actually talking with potentials. Our company is small. This was a waste of a position and they smartly got rid of it.
Leo Domitrix 6 years ago
Here's an idea. Talk to the person to see if they're obviously a psychopath, then fire them from HR when you find out they are. ;-)
Cesar Grossmann 6 years ago
When you fail to get an engineer position because you are Pisces and Pisces are known to be intuitive and not logical...
Nunya 6 years ago
Shoutout to any HR person reading this: These types of tests are c**p. Here's why: When a person is harried and rushed with a single question, they will often make a decision that is not their best decision. Because they felt rushed. The more questions they have to answer in a hurry, the more and more likely they will make even more poor decisions, sometimes to the point of catastrophic. In real life work situations, there are very few NOW NOW NOW moments where one has to make a decision so vital that they can't take at least ten minutes to make a decision. To force candidates into that kind of situation is not right. And, when we talking about personality, no computer is going to measure that correctly. The candidate is going to answer what they THINK the HR people want to hear rather than what they really feel or think. Which will lead to "wrong" answers that fail them. Try hiring HR people who are good at researching their work histories. Better results that way.
Karina Tóth 6 years ago
HR person here. Personality test is recruitment is so wrong on so many levels. Yes personality matters but have anninterview for god's sake!
Load More Replies... MRK 6 years ago
This happened to my wife...she tried for a permanent position at a company she had been doing contract work at for 3 years. She'd be doing the exact same work, just a different pay source. There was a math test involved in the interview process, which she failed because it was all College stuff she hadn't done in years and never used in her job. Her boss wanted to know why she hadn't gotten the job. She told him about the math test, which he took and also failed. She now has a permanent posting and the Math test is gone. Wish more bosses were like that!
Carol Emory 6 years ago
All I'm seeing is a bunch of HR employees that will soon be unemployed because they filled the company with useless candidates. A company can't survive without qualified skilled people. The personality test may be good AFTER the initial job process..like checking resumes, references, conducting interviews. When qualified candidates make it through, then you can find out if they're going to be a perfect fit for the company atmosphere. But I still think those personality quizzes are a bunch of bogus BS.
Daria B 6 years ago (edited)
I think those quizes are only good if the ones in charge of you are actually interested in psychology and related matters. In this case, the quiz should serve as a guide to understand each other better, not to see whether one is suitable for the atmosphere or not.
Load More Replies... DE Ray 6 years ago
The tweet about not hiring a candidate who didn't send a "thank you" email after an interview faintly annoys me. Do these people not know what the labor market looks like? I'm not sending you a "thank you" for bestowing the gift of my time taking the interview. Employers need employees way more than employees need employers. I've weighed four job offers at once recently, and if one of those had wasted my time by expecting me to grovel for the work, I would take a moment to warn others away from that company - but otherwise it wouldn't impact me at all.
DE Ray 6 years ago
I would also like to tell the story about skilled technicians. A wealthy man in my area recently bought a business of which the major feature was a $800,000 printing press. He required all the employees to re-apply for the jobs they were doing, and would only re-hire at 10% less than what they had been paid. The pressman didn't reapply, and left. He was one of less than 300 people in the country who know how to operate that press - only a handful live within a day's drive of the company and already have good jobs. The new owner is now desperately trying to sell the business he just bought because he didn't respect the employees.
Load More Replies... it's me again 6 years ago
Hahaha. They just fired our HR person because she procrastinated, never followed up on anything, didn't hire anyone and used those worthless tests instead of actually talking with potentials. Our company is small. This was a waste of a position and they smartly got rid of it.
Leo Domitrix 6 years ago
Here's an idea. Talk to the person to see if they're obviously a psychopath, then fire them from HR when you find out they are. ;-)
Cesar Grossmann 6 years ago
When you fail to get an engineer position because you are Pisces and Pisces are known to be intuitive and not logical...
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