Behavioral Interviews for New Hires?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday April 20, 2006 @05:02AM from the corporations-work-in-mysterious-ways dept.

banetbi asks: "I am a PHP developer and FreeBSD administrator, and have been looking for a new job for a couple of months. Finally, I got a call back from a company, but they want me to take an on-line questionnaire before I come in for an interview. After doing some research I found the company that makes the test and checked out their website. It looks like this is some sort of personality test (they call it an artificially intelligent behavioral analysis). What does my personality have to do with my ability to perform in a job? Have any of you had to take a personality test to get a job? Should I do it, or just keep looking?"

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Re:fact of interviewing life these days. by ronfar · 2006-04-20 05:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

People are always picking on Voodoo until Baron Saturday takes them to school...

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All the creatures will die, And all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai. (Jubai, 1605)
Re:"Behavioural" questions at an interview by NoMoreNicksLeft · 2006-04-20 08:36 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Shame that. Why the hell can't I ever find a place like this then?

Doesn't matter though, I'm a skill-less loser, you wouldn't hire me anyway.

I did, however, just get scaling to work on my javascript/SVG 3d rendering page... (Firefox/moz/opera9 only). Sorry, had to brag, it's been frustrating me for days.