The point is you can't manipulate the test because if you are "manipulating" it to impress, it simply shows how you expect you will behave in your new role. Someone who fails the test wouldn't have a clue about what the tester is looking for.
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Originally posted by BlasterBates View PostThe point is you can't manipulate the test because if you are "manipulating" it to impress, it simply shows how you expect you will behave in your new role. Someone who fails the test wouldn't have a clue about what the tester is looking for.
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Originally posted by Eirikur View PostThese tests can be manipulated and I've always done so very successfully
The only way you can put answers that don't reflect "you" is to answer randomly and then you would fail.I'm alright JackComment
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Jeez - another "Im going to act like a prima donna contractor because Im special".
WTF has it got to do with IR35?
If client tells you the interview will involve you slapping your knob on the table and if they think its big enough you get the git. You then have a choice - turn up or not? If the client wants to recruit whichever way they want its up to them. As its up to you to throw your toys out of the cot and strop off.Rhyddid i lofnod psychocandy!!!!Comment
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Originally posted by mattfx View PostIf you want the interview take the test. If you have nothing to hide you shouldn't be worried. If you don't want the interview don't take the test. No point in wasting time thinking about it.
Sadly, this attitude of just accepting what the client wants to get the interview is precisely why these stupid tests are creeping in for contract work.Comment
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Originally posted by psychocandy View PostJeez - another "Im going to act like a prima donna contractor because Im special".
WTF has it got to do with IR35?
If client tells you the interview will involve you slapping your knob on the table and if they think its big enough you get the git. You then have a choice - turn up or not? If the client wants to recruit whichever way they want its up to them. As its up to you to throw your toys out of the cot and strop off.'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!Comment
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I left permiedom so that I could get away from such crap, so I wouldn't bother with the interview (I got burned on one of these during a permie interview some years before I started contracting). It sounds like they need permies in the guise of contractors.
If their interview process is so poor that they need this and you can game it, then do it."I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...Comment
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Originally posted by BR14 View PostShame this isn't in General"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...Comment
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Originally posted by cojak View PostI left permiedom so that I could get away from such crap, so I wouldn't bother with the interview (I got burned on one of these during a permie interview some years before I started contracting). It sounds like they need permies in the guise of contractors.Comment
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Interview is in one hour, didn't do the test, see how it goes and if they mention it.
Shaved and dressed my suit, I'm off nowComment
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