>>More than once I was in the position of not being able to employ highly qualified & very able people, because the "Human Resources" department said that their personality profile tests showed that they did not fit the company profile & I had to employ less able people.
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>I've never worked anywhere that HR conducted personality tests on applicants. Was this a normal practice in the company? Have you seen it elsewhere?
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>Renoir

It eventually became standard practice at that company that HR did the tests & weeded out unsuitable applicants (ie didn't fit the company profile), prior to them being interviewed for the job. I think this was due to the number of complaints the they were rejecting too many suitable candidates, so if we only got to see those that they deemed suitable we would have less to complain about.

I've never seen other companies use the profiles to the extent that they are more important then the applicants ability to do the required job, but yes, I have seen it at quite a few companies.