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Subject:Re: Tests in Interviews From:Kristina Guiney <KGUINEY -at- MELMAC -dot- BITNET> Date:Fri, 3 Jun 1994 14:09:53 -0400
Regarding taking tests during the interview process, I was once asked to
come in to take a "pre-employment" test and assumed it was the usual "write a
procedure" and "pick out what's wrong with each sentence"--WRONG! They were
IQ and personality tests that were copyrighted back in the _1940s_! YIKES!!
I was told that these tests weeded out those people who were not willing to
work as "team" members.
