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Re:He got 1%, we can't hire him by pseut on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @03:38PM (#6292151)
Think of them this way: they don't test your personality, they test whether you know what the obviously correct answers are for a personality screening test.

Now imagine what must be going through someone's head when they answer "never/strongly disagree" to the question "How often do you try to treat customers and coworkers with respect?" and the tests start to make a little more sense as a screening mechanism.

Re:He got 1%, we can't hire him by danielweber on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @04:55PM (#6292594)
And whether you can lie for them.

I took a PHP test for a recruiter once. Half the questions were "what would you get if you typed this into the intrepeter?", which you weren't allowed to do. It seemed to come down to an honesty test.