>>Ha! I have come across very few who have a good word to say about these aptitude/personality profile/psychometric/isometric(?!) tests. They are probably as useless as fur coat at noon in the middle of the Sahara. If you compare a chimp's personality profile with that of a human's, surely logic says that the human's personality and intellectual profile will be superior. But if the job's to climb trees mate, the jury's out!
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>Ability to do the job isn't HR's problem though. As long as you fit the company profile, then you can probably be trained to climb the trees & if you can't, well they'll smile as they show you the door & replace you with the next one who fits the company profile - you're only a resource after all, that can be replaced if you dont work as well. Besides, they might be excellent at climbing trees, but their profiles show that they are likely to have a big attitude problem, they'll only climb trees when there's something in it for themselves & refuse to adapt to multiskilling practices, so wont fly to the tops of the trees when climbing is found to be inefficient. And you need an infinite number of them & infinite time if you want them to type a sensible report.

Len;

Reminds me of the song by the Irish group "The Dubliner’s" “The Hiring Fair”. The recently hired farm hand upon complaining to the farmer he was being worked to death because of the long hours and hard work combined with little or no food and his bones showing through his skin receives this reassurance from the farmer “That’s alright – there are plenty more like you where you came from (the hiring fair)”!

Next!!!

Tom