Personally, i think these tests aren’t a bad idea for a lot of entry level jobs. They shouldn’t be taken literally as real personality tests so much as they should be something you can use to easily filter out people that are dumb enough to admit to being mad all the time or that distrust authority or something.
If you’ve done one, though, sometimes they’re stupidly involved…
Like, an hour-long test, just to apply for an entry-level job…
Or, the newest “thing” - having to upload video responses where they then analyze your facial expressions and mannerisms to see if you “fit”… I had one of those, this last week.
It’s all becoming very creepy and dystopian…
So I cannot agree, frankly.
It used to be kind of like what you describe, but it’s much, much worse than that now, lol…
The video interview stuff they started pushing the past couple years was weird. And I don't think it's a coincidence that (at least where I worked) they started pushing it right around the time all their anti-white "diversity" initiatives started in earnest.
Whenever HR tried to have me do a video interview I'd just lie and say my camera was broken, and since I wasn't on video they didn't have to be either.
I’ve just been told that I have to do two of these one-way video interviews (i.e. film yourself answering the questions, and upload it), for two very different job applications, within the next 48 hours…
Something very weird has happened with recruitment, “post-Covid”…
This shit should not be normal, or acceptable, yet here we are…
Had that situation in the course I am currently doing (not Uni) this morning, actually...
The instructor got really angry with the people who didn't have their cameras on, too, even though it literally made zero difference to anything...
Like, they were there, they had their mics on, and there was no way to "cheat", as such, in this course, at least at that point, yet it was like they had personally affronted her, lol...
But yeah, I'm currently in that situation, except at a company (public service branch, actually) that I don't work at yet.
I hate the video thing, and I worry your suspicions there may be correct, unfortunately...
What I was saying is: while I don’t know what it’s like for a more “mentally well” person than I am at the moment, it just adds massively to how frustrating the whole process is, and how, frankly dehumanizing it is being subjected to that shit in place of, largely, what would in the past have been an initial interview or phone call…
Like, I want to be assessed on my relevant skills and experience, and how I handle the interview…
Not some third-party, facial assessment-based psychometric testing that has zero practical relevance to the job at hand, lol..,
Personally, i think these tests aren’t a bad idea for a lot of entry level jobs. They shouldn’t be taken literally as real personality tests so much as they should be something you can use to easily filter out people that are dumb enough to admit to being mad all the time or that distrust authority or something.
I wish it was that straightforward…
If you’ve done one, though, sometimes they’re stupidly involved…
Like, an hour-long test, just to apply for an entry-level job…
Or, the newest “thing” - having to upload video responses where they then analyze your facial expressions and mannerisms to see if you “fit”… I had one of those, this last week.
It’s all becoming very creepy and dystopian…
So I cannot agree, frankly.
It used to be kind of like what you describe, but it’s much, much worse than that now, lol…
The video interview stuff they started pushing the past couple years was weird. And I don't think it's a coincidence that (at least where I worked) they started pushing it right around the time all their anti-white "diversity" initiatives started in earnest.
Whenever HR tried to have me do a video interview I'd just lie and say my camera was broken, and since I wasn't on video they didn't have to be either.
I’ve just been told that I have to do two of these one-way video interviews (i.e. film yourself answering the questions, and upload it), for two very different job applications, within the next 48 hours…
Something very weird has happened with recruitment, “post-Covid”…
This shit should not be normal, or acceptable, yet here we are…
Had that situation in the course I am currently doing (not Uni) this morning, actually...
The instructor got really angry with the people who didn't have their cameras on, too, even though it literally made zero difference to anything...
Like, they were there, they had their mics on, and there was no way to "cheat", as such, in this course, at least at that point, yet it was like they had personally affronted her, lol...
But yeah, I'm currently in that situation, except at a company (public service branch, actually) that I don't work at yet.
I hate the video thing, and I worry your suspicions there may be correct, unfortunately...
I replied to the wrong person before. Whoops.
What I was saying is: while I don’t know what it’s like for a more “mentally well” person than I am at the moment, it just adds massively to how frustrating the whole process is, and how, frankly dehumanizing it is being subjected to that shit in place of, largely, what would in the past have been an initial interview or phone call…
Like, I want to be assessed on my relevant skills and experience, and how I handle the interview…
Not some third-party, facial assessment-based psychometric testing that has zero practical relevance to the job at hand, lol..,
So yeah, not a fan.
Edit: on how I feel about all this stuff, right now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZlRX03BzeA (King of Pain - The Police)