I can't be the only one who read this headline and was disappointed that in fact they are not letting Weird Al write their interview questions.
McDonald's Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests
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#12Related recently:
I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test
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#13Just a rewrite of walled 404 piece:
Service Jobs Now Require Bizarre Personality Test From AI Company
https://www.404media.co/low-paying-jobs-require-bizarre-pers...
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#14I can't be the only one who read this headline and was disappointed that in fact they are not letting Weird Al write their interview questions.
You are not. My sans serif font also betrayed me.
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#15> Paradox's "Traitify" product, which uses the strange slides to lump applicants into "Big Five" or "OCEAN" personality groups, rating them on how open, conscientious, extraverted, agreeable, and neurotic they are. For the record, the correct answer is always to be low on neuroticism and high on everything else. The role doesn’t matter; that is always the “ideal” personality and any deviation is a defect that will on…
Many years ago, barely out of high school, I took a test for a temporary warehouse stock picking job. The test was primarily concerned with the applicants' attitude to authority and violence. Oh, and theft, of course. Many questions were repetitive, and used slight variation in wording or reversed meaning to ask the same things over and over again. So, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you agree with these statement…
It's like they are screening for people who are most likely to take abuse without pushback.
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#16I read this as "Weird Al personality tests" and thought its a great idea. More places should be employing based on their Weird Al index, would finally improve the "fun place to work" aspects
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#17> Paradox's "Traitify" product, which uses the strange slides to lump applicants into "Big Five" or "OCEAN" personality groups, rating them on how open, conscientious, extraverted, agreeable, and neurotic they are. For the record, the correct answer is always to be low on neuroticism and high on everything else. The role doesn’t matter; that is always the “ideal” personality and any deviation is a defect that will on…
Putting a bunch of open agreeable extraverted teenagers together in close quarters sounds like an HR nightmare.
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#18Ah, the blue people test. There's a company thats selling these personality tests to large companies. Any job that requires that you be an obedient little robot will require that you take such a personality test.
It's bad enough many companies want to run invasive background checks (up to and including pulling your credit) for milquetoast low-paying-entry-level jobs now they want people to take some bastardized version of Myers–Briggs which itself is pseudoscience? I sorta understand a company wanting to do that for some C-level or upper management position, or for a finance person responsible for the books...but for a burger…
The weird thing about the credit checks is that I have horrible credit. Like about every 2 years a credit card gets sent to collections. Some old rent in collections. Etc. But its never, ever affected a hiring decision for $80-130k jobs.
So…why are they doing the credit checks??
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#19Ah, the blue people test. There's a company thats selling these personality tests to large companies. Any job that requires that you be an obedient little robot will require that you take such a personality test.
It's bad enough many companies want to run invasive background checks (up to and including pulling your credit) for milquetoast low-paying-entry-level jobs now they want people to take some bastardized version of Myers–Briggs which itself is pseudoscience? I sorta understand a company wanting to do that for some C-level or upper management position, or for a finance person responsible for the books...but for a burger…
It amazes me that the bean-counters are on board with this sort of silliness. The woo-woo test services aren't free, and I wouldn't be surprised if they have to throw a few extra bucks into the legal coffers if they backfire and accidentally-intentionally penalize a protected group.
And for what... a questionably-measurable improvement in quality for employees that already have like a 150% per-annum turnover?
It also feels like industry is trying to turn HR and recruitment into a science-- if they can put enough algorithms and skill tests in the path, they can automate the recruitment process. I'm amazed HR doesn't detect this as an existential threat and sabotage it from inside.
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#20"Weird AI personality tests" seems scary, but it's likely many big-corporate workers had to suffer through top management's Myers-Briggs phase, (which is just as weird and just as non-scientific) forcing everyone not just to take the test but to share the results with colleagues. I'd probably also put "Kanban" as another consultant-led pseudoscience money grab that everyone detests.