chaos.

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I am writing to invite you to attend a testing session with respect to your application for the above role.

The session will be held on ***. On this date please arrive AT *** and ask for ***. The testing session will last for approximately two hours.

On the day you will be asked to complete a personality questionnaire and verbal and numerical comprehension aptitude tests.
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Has anyone ever done this when applying for a job?

What are they hgoing to have me doing exactly?
Better not be something silly I hope

ajm

You will all be asked to strip off and perform humiliating initiation rituals!

chaos.

I think I'll fail the personality test - result - abnormal

Anyway, it is just filling out a few papers sort of thing and nothing humiliating is it?

Redkop

I think you ought to expand on that further ajm

bluenosewrx

iTrader: (2)

Is the job in a Masonic hall lol.

ajm

I'm sure your imagination is up to the job!

Tidgy

don't worry, an astute fellow like yourself (being on scoobynet, come on web master name dropping here, what do i get as a reward???? lol) you'll p*&s it.

Did much tougher stuff when i went to apply for the raf.

it'll just be to sort out the good from the chav's lol

Peccant

It'll be one of those Myers-Briggs type tests to find out if you're human or not

Redkop

I am sure it is, but is Chaos'? Only fair to give him a proper description of what he could expect.

thundertiger

yeah but chaos is a chav!!

dont bother going!!

BB

lardypants

i had to give a 3 minute speach on life inside a ping pong ball once lol

chaos.

my minds made up

Graz

Standard practice for a lot of big companies, especially if they have a lot of people applying for not many jobs. Personality test to see if your sane, aptitude test to check your 3R skills are up to the job.

Enables them to get rid of the dross quickly and easily, if you fail at this first hurdle then you won't go any further in their recruitment process. You just get a nice letter saying thanks for your time and better luck in future.

I had one of these when I applied for a job with Logica on leaving Uni, however the test was marked there and then, those who passed had there names read out and asked to go to another room, those who failed were I assume politely asked to go home. I passed of course so wouldn't know How disheartening that must be to go for a days worth of interview, tests etc. only to go home within a few hours. No free lunch or anything

Dracoro

You don't need to worry....unless it's an intelligence test of course

ajm

Oh very well then....

More examples available from http://www.stophazing.org/definition.html

Wish

iTrader: (2)

I think its a test to make sure you are able to here the beeping sound of the fryer and also to measure you up for your uniform.


And dont forget to pass with flying colours you will need to ask all customers if they would like to ' Go Large' with there order !

Good Luck .....

warrenm2

These people are so out of touch with reality - whats that gonna prove? That you have a good imagination for making up excuses why the work hasnt been done because you were too busy laughing at the waste of time "management consultants"?!

FFS - Whats this place coming to?

chaos.

If you think thats mad, I read on another thread that those lucky soles that stack the shelves in ASDA have to stand up in front of the room and say ASDA with hand movements YMCA stylee

Thats not on

warrenm2

I would leave on principle.... rather work in MaccyDs

Nick100

I've done these in the past and also used them when recruiting (Thompson International ?). Some interesting info comes out, although it is difficult to know how accurate it is. Did one myself which wasn't very accurate at all

Normally ask you to state which words you most/least resemble. They put checks in by repeating similar questions, so don't try to put down what you think they want to know, just be honest.

sti-04!!

E -

The local kebab shop do those kind of tests ?????????????????????????

I thought the local chippy was looking for chip makers

chaos.

local chippy is miles away I live in a too posh area

perhaps i could be a prostitute

i might just become a junky, at least its a lifestyle

mart360

you should do alright chos..

you only need to get approx 35% in two of the three categorys for grunt work!!

you will probably get a plane crash or desert island scenario thrown in...

we had one on a management course a while back..

plane crash in the sonara desert..

i knew the answer to the rankings done it before!!!!

but i have also been to the sonara desert, so i know what its like..


major stand up argument with the group!!!!! to the point that one or two "managers almost getting phsical, cos i wouldnt back down and be bullied/ group pressured into a decision... (it had to be group decisions)

they all wanted to walk out of the desert!!!!

me i opted for stay put....


and the correct answer....


stay put!!!! and the point they all missed was that they had someone with local knowledge of the area,,, and it was made very clear by the course lecturer...

and these guys are senior managers!!!



hey ho chos on the road to gainful employ!!!




M

chaos.

well well ..

I just got back from the test thingy and it was a harder than expected

They said If I get asked back for a second interview they may give me a drugs test !

Theres no way I will pass one of those in the next two years at least

Back to job seeking

Brendan Hughes

Drugs test? You'll walk it. Isn't that the one where Baz sells a kilo of Charlie to Wayne, cut at 40%, and Wayne expects to split this into 150 wraps to get a net profit of three Gs, but then how many hookers should he pimp over the next week to pay off Big Al to avoid getting a cap in his ***?

Jap2Scrap

Amusing

Reminds me of the time work sent me for an eye test. I spent all day revising and when I got there they asked me to read a Latin poster. There was nothing about that in the revision aids

David Lock

wrong thread!