Thursday, December 3, 2009

A Ridiculous Test

In preparation for the aforementioned (how often do I use that word?) interview for the stepping stone job, I was sent a link for an online test.  And this test was just completely ridiculous.  There was a math section and an analogy section and word definition section (very SAT-ish).  But there were also several personality assessment sections.  Since the test was online, I was copying some of the questions over and now you get to read them.

The first section is essentially True or False.
-You have never wanted to "tell someone off."
Who hasn't wanted to tell someone off?  What kind of weirdo hasn't?

-You have never said anything that you later regretted. 
I remember reading a quote that was something like, "You haven't lived if you don't have regrets", and I agree with that statement."

-People never irritate you. 
-There are times when taking revenge is the only fair and logical thing to do. 
-You have never been angry at anyone.
I answered false to all of these.  Aren't these ridiculous questions?  Maybe I should have answered true to the revenge question.  I'm thinking now that if I was in the Kill Bill situation and my fiancee and baby (presumably) and friends were all killed, revenge might be a fair thing to do.  The revenge of living well might not cut it in that situation.

In another section, they give you two activities and you have a scale of 1 to 4.  1 means you strongly prefer activity 1 and 4 means you strongly prefer activity 4 and 2 or 3 mean slightly preferring. 
-Balancing your checking account  - Listening to others talk about their problems
-Writing a story, screenplay or theatrical production - Setting and attaining your own business goals
I slightly preferred listening to other problems.  (I assume that means that I would have empathy.)  I also picked writing a story.  Isn't that just more fun?  Well, I guess it is for me and I actually think it would be for the majority.

Anyway, so during the onsite interview, I noticed that all of my interviewers had this stapled packet.  And there was a pie chart on the front and it was divided into like 8 fairly equal sections.  I'm wondering what it would mean if, say, 3/4 of the pie chart was the same color.  One of my interviewers mentioned that from my test, it's apparent that I would be a hard worker.  Really?  These crappy questions somehow communicate that to you?  He also mentioned that the test shows that I would follow rules strictly.  I don't understand any of this stuff.  Whatever I guess.  I still think the test was stupid.

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