Comments on How to Pass a Pre-employment Personality Test

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I failed a personality test. I think it is either that I answered only agree or disagree or neither. I understand that strongly agreeing and strongly disagreeing are desireable. I'm such a tolerant and calm person that strongly is not even a good discription of my personality. Not that I would ever do say or try anything wrong. I just want to take care of the sick and bring my sweet loving personaliy to bedside care. Is there a personality test for that? The kind and tolerant person. I have great skills and an increadable knowledge base, and the exact right personality for careing for the ill. My patients are always praising me for my efforts. These tests also ask about age, sex and race. That information is just wrong and if used, illegal.

I despise these questions because I believe it is also timed. I have a habit of relaxing and drink a cup of tea while answering this assessment questions. I guess it is a sign of the corporate beast or just a guard dog that just eats up the whole application silently and sometimes with only a feedback message saying you were denied as a candidate just because there was something not right to get through the guard dog and talk to a real person for employment with an interview.

I'm a former Starb**** employee, 4 years ago my manager was very happy with me and I got many rewards there for being an exceptional employee but therefor when I reapplyed in a different starbucks few weeks ago I failed the personality test and didn't get hired! They didn't care about my experience or my references at all! This is ridiculous...

awesome thanks. I took one and failed (!) after reading this, I went back and took it and passed. I just answered every question like I was perfect and was super extroverted.

Dilbert is immortal!

I AGREE! Its falsely leading the applicant that a "survey" is really I test so i'm %^%$ for having an a opinion and being honest thus losing the opportunity.

I really believe this is ethical and not a huge waste of time.

If you say yes, you are blindly judgemental and you will not get hired. If you say no, you are a criminal sympathizer and thus a "bad seed" and you will not get hired. so sad

Sandra Kroeplin-Lilleoien here is a question i have difficulty with. "It's maddening when criminals go free.." (I don't believe in our justice system, therefore by extension don't believe in company policy if I don't agree with it.) anyone know the answer to this?

It's maddening when criminals go free. (I don't believe in our justice system, therefore by extension don't believe in company policy if I don't agree with it.) anyone know the answer to this?

I Yes its crazy..and one thing this proves also, it don't take smarts or intelligence to pass them. its about common sense, wits..So people who clearly has a bad attitude and depreciation forr life gets these kinds of jobs.

Yes its crazy..and one thing this prooves also, it dont take smarts or intelligence to pass them. its about common sense, wits..So people who clearly has a bad attitude and depreciation forr life gets these kinds of jobs.

I think they need to do away with this.

I failed mine too, when I couldn't get hired at Target to. get the lowest paid position as a bagger during the holiday. season. Even my 15 years working in retail, didn't seem to matter. Knowing all hope was lost, at a later date I voiced. my complaint with their corporate offices. Not that they gave a damn,....but I felt the testing is a form of discrimination. If you have any tendency to think uniquely, the test becomes your enemy.

very enlightening. I think I've been going about this the wrong way.

I hate these tests. the questions are so vague you can not answer them correctly i.e.; I have stopped beating my wife. Strongly agree, agree, neither, Disagree... How do you answer that? I have never beat my wife, therefore I have not stopped beating her 'cause I never started. I did not get a job recently 'cause of one of these tests even though I have ten years experience. My experience did not count as much as this stupid test.

I walked a mile with Pleasure. She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser. For all she had to say. Then I walked a mile with Sorrow, And not a word said He. But oh, the things I learned the day. That Sorrow walked with me.

Great heads-up for those stupid tests! Going to use this today.

But how can you get a job these days without taking one? Even some of the temp agencies utilize these! :(

I think that these tests are ridiculous, especially because if the maker Was actually in touch with reality, they'd realize that by passing the test, you're basically saying, "I'm a liar, I'll tell you what ever you want me to say". Wish I had've known that before I took the test I just took.

I have run into alot of companies that use the mulitple choice tests of "Strongly agree, Slightly agree neither agree or disagree, Slightly disagree and Strongly disagree" and I HAVE answered them at the extreme of each answer for each one as suggested on this page and I STILL get passed over for jobs I KNOW I am MORE than qualified to do. Employers need to quit hiding behind these stupid tests and sit down with candidates and TALK TO THEM...they are missing out on alot of hard workers and are hiring people who know how to cheat the tests...obviously I am not one of them.

I really believe this is unethical and a huge waste of time. I want things to go back to the way they use to be when you a actually had a face to face encounter with a potential employer. Boo!

I think personally that they are discriminatory talking to people face to face is a better way to learn about them no some faces test.

Preemployment personality tests are extremely flawed.