June 20th, 2012
Courtesy of Galley Friend Mike Russell.
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“Is he an expert on things that have never, ever, happened?”
That’s so great I’m going to use it all the time. Mostly to describe Paul Krugman.
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Nedward- I was actually mildly impressed with the Target test. One of the questions was (and I’m paraphrasing): You see a co-worker steal, what do you do?
– report to supervisor/manager
– report to authorities
– confront the co-worker
– nothing
It’s a sly question that is deeper than it appears and might tell a hiring manager quite a bit about a prospective employee. There were several of these types of questions on the application. -
Have applied for many a chainstore drudgery position in my day, and to me the personal inventory questionnaires never seemed less than bizarre.
Yes, the hypotheticals have that “more than meets the eye” “Hound-of-the-Baskervilles” quality; then again, they also have that “House MD Season-8-Opener” quality, in that I can’t picture the store boss or regional deputy assistant HR director deriving a thing from them. Or maybe I’m actually an android
Nedward June 20, 2012 at 8:39 pm
“I have to take a psychological profile test when I apply at Target”
Didn’t realize they had completed corporate rollout on the Voight-Kampff Empathy Test (unless “where do you see yourself in 5 years” is what now passes for a deep metric)