Reply to: Mensa anyone?

[suityou01]

Giving the fact that the large portion of the middle management handling contractors is nowhere near Mensa levels, mention of your membership in interview or CV can only harm your chances of securing a role, nobody likes a smarta**

You are as safe as houses then

[sal]

Giving the fact that the large portion of the middle management handling contractors is nowhere near Mensa levels, mention of your membership in interview or CV can only harm your chances of securing a role, nobody likes a smarta**

[unixman]

People who know nothing are the happiest, lad.

[FatLazyContractor]

Any contractor that puts mensa membership on the CV is labelled a geek with poor communication skills.

Says someone with an IQ of .....

[d000hg]

Any contractor is labelled a geek with poor communication skills.

FTFY

[SimonMac]

Any contractor that puts mensa membership on the CV is labelled a geek with poor communication skills.

Iike you actually read CVs!!!!

[SantaClaus]

Any contractor that puts mensa membership on the CV is labelled a geek with poor communication skills.

... and judging by some of the posts on this thread... poor grammatical skills.

[Zero Liability]

I bet it's good fun for the clients (or prospective employers if permie) who get to pull your leg on account of it.

Psychometric tests and your academics are already telling them everything they need to know about your IQ.

[yetanotherbob]

Any contractor that puts mensa membership on the CV is labelled a geek with poor communication skills.

I know someone who put it on their linkedin profile. Looks silly but it's good for a few laughs

[darmstadt]

Any contractor that puts mensa membership on the CV is labelled a ******* dickhead.

FTFY

[yetanotherbob]

Funnily enough, a lot of what you will encounter in an IQ test, you will find in psychometric tests with less obvious labels as well, e.g. in abstract reasoning psychometric tests.

Interesting - because included in the IQ test fee, they also gave me an online psychometric test (profilingforsuccess.com).
According to that my personality type is surveyor and I happen to like to play the role of an 'expert' in my work environment.

[DodgyAgent]

Any contractor that puts mensa membership on the CV is labelled a geek with poor communication skills.

[Zero Liability]

People taking the Mensa test aren't the only people taking IQ tests, and they are normalised in relation to other tests. They are restricted to extrapolating from sample sizes, since not everyone is going to take an IQ test, but that's the nature of the beast. Funnily enough, a lot of what you will encounter in an IQ test, you will find in psychometric tests with less obvious labels as well, e.g. in abstract reasoning psychometric tests.

[yetanotherbob]

Top 2% of Mensa or top 2% of the world's population and if its the latter then how do they know?

top 2% of the world's population - extrapolating from mensa test-takers as a representative sample?

[darmstadt]

Any good paying for the membership apart from a small ego boost?
Took their exam during bench time and turns out I am in the top 2%
Mostly meaningless but no harm posting about it on CUK.

Top 2% of Mensa or top 2% of the world's population and if its the latter then how do they know?