I applied to Michaels' for a job and true to form,
I needed to take an assessment test. I first encountered this strange
phenomenon when I applied at Office Depot for an entry level job. I filled out
the online application and after wards was informed I needed to take the
assessment test. Should I pass the test, the next step will be the interview.
In my professional life I was never required to
take this type of test. Curious about this procedure, I searched the Internet and learned that the test was
devised to assist HR personnel in the hiring process. The test would stream line the process and assure the hiring of the most qualified person for the position. In English, most HR
people do not do well in in this particular endeavor, after all HR is not there
to protect the employee but to assure that company policy is adhered too.
Being properly prepared now, I went and took the
Office Depot assessment test which consisted of one-hundred-twenty-five
questions. Approximately twenty-five percent were about my selling
experience and as my friends tell me, ‘I couldn’t sell water to a
parched person.’
The balance of the enquiries consisted of questions being asked in different ways. The pattern emerging was rather obvious and here is one example: a) Are
you an energetic person? b) Do you need a nap in the afternoon? If you answer
yes to a, and you answer yes to b, you are
contradicting yourself. Target, Kohl’s, Walmart, JC Penny, Sears, Michaels’ have
this type of repetitious question on their assessment test that
is anywhere from sixty to a
hundred-twenty-five questions long.
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