Psychometric tests

[woohoo]

A load of tulipe. I did a maths reasoning one for a permie job, failed it and they offered it me anyway. Went on to get promoted 3 times in as many years, so that was very indicative of my performance wasn't it...

Perhaps you failed the maths reasoning test with a higher score than the other staff, as it seems failing was not a barrier to employment? Therefore, you could have been the best of a bunch of maths reasoning failures.

[northernladyuk]

Perhaps you failed the maths reasoning test with a higher score than the other staff, as it seems failing was not a barrier to employment? Therefore, you could have been the best of a bunch of maths reasoning failures.

It does kind of make sense, given that a majority of the British adult population failed the last large-scale reasoning test.

[woohoo]

It does kind of make sense, given that a majority of the British adult population failed the last large-scale reasoning test.

Coffee time...

[northernladyuk]

Coffee time...

I've had far too much already.

[vwdan]

Perhaps you failed the maths reasoning test with a higher score than the other staff, as it seems failing was not a barrier to employment? Therefore, you could have been the best of a bunch of maths reasoning failures.

I wish that were the case, but I'm just truly awful at mental maths.

[greenlake]

[_V_]

I took one of these fairly recently:

https://www.thomasinternational.net/.../Psychometric/

Amazing accurate results, the output is a report that covers your personality type and where you fit into a team.

Big companies are using this to balance teams, so it's not all alpha male types, or wet as a weekend nerds.

Not really sure it should be applied to contractors though, has a very permie feel about it.

PS I did this test https://www.thomasinternational.net/...-we-offer/PPA/, not IQ or reasoning tests, they don't measure intelligence, thankfully

[vwdan]

I took one of these fairly recently:

https://www.thomasinternational.net/.../Psychometric/

Amazing accurate results, the output is a report that covers your personality type and where you fit into a team.

Big companies are using this to balance teams, so it's not all alpha male types, or wet as a weekend nerds.

Not really sure it should be applied to contractors though, has a very permie feel about it.

PS I did this test https://www.thomasinternational.net/...-we-offer/PPA/, not IQ or reasoning tests, they don't measure intelligence, thankfully

WTF is going on with the pre-filled in info on that form?

[DimPrawn]

WTF is going on with the pre-filled in info on that form?

It's part of the test.

[shaunbhoy]

It does kind of make sense, given that a majority of the British adult population failed the last large-scale reasoning test.

On the contrary, the majority passed. However, the whining minority are still noisily working through their issues.

HTH