Personality Testing For Employment

Thelasko writes "While I was in college, I had the opportunity to take an elective course in Industrial Psychology. One section of the course covered hiring practices and the validity of 'personality testing' to screen applicants (Google link for non-subscribers). The Wall Street Journal has a long article discoursing on how such tests are used in today's economy. While personality tests may be designed to uncover underlying personality traits such as honesty, critics claim that the tests instead reward cheaters." The article talks mostly about the tests' use in winnowing candidates for retail positions — deciding whom to interview. Anybody encountered them in an IT or more technical context?

Comments

Yeah, for dating/marriage

[Toe, The]

Informal personality tests are often administered by women to gauge males' employability as a boyfriend/husband.

This often doesn't go well for those in "an IT or more technical context"

Re:I would like to hear from a lawyer on this..

[Skreems]

Maybe they've designed a fool-proof test to detect arrogant jackasses.