Today I did an aptitude test. Exactly the same verbal reasoning one as I did on Thurs. Will be interesting to see whether I’ve managed to correct any of the questions I got wrong the other day, or whether I’ve incorrectly assessed which ones they were and got others wrong. (While I was told how many I’d got wrong, I wasn’t told which ones they were). I told the ppl today that I’d sat the test a couple of days ago – it seemed only fair.
Then the second aptitude test was computer checking – didn’t do that the other day, but did do it seven years ago when joining the bank. Didn’t really feel I needed to disclose that though! If my accuracy rate is OK, I’ve improved hugely on how I did on that one from last time, as I nearly finished it.
Tech test – laughable. What is this Enterprise Java you speak to me of? Oh well. And I shall draw a veil over the rest of it until I find out whether I’m going to be called for personality testing and a second interview.
The children have had another lovely day with Tim from what I can tell – Small did contrive to fall asleep though, which doesn’t bode well for tonight. Although he doesn’t look 100% to me, I wonder if we are starting with something?
And now they are eating food that I’ve actually cooked for once, and all is calm.
Comments
13 responses to “Deja vu”
I always find personality tests deeply disturbing – I think I’m worried I turn out not to have one. But seriously – are these people in a 90s timewarp? personality tests are so yesterday in selection.
OK so you have Apptitude and you can navigate, but do you have a personality? Or. more to the point, is it the right one?
rofl @ Joyce! I’m not sure *what* kind of timewarp they are in to tell the truth…
edited – it was me, not him
the aptitude thing being repeated would really mess with my head over which ones I thought I’d gotten wrong and which ones I then corrected – what if I did worse second time round!
And hope the Small falling asleep is not too critical in getting you some sleep tonight.
I guessed, Jax – that was not a Tim type comment 🙂
So what is “today” in selection? Have we moved on to necromancy, perhaps? Or simply reverted to the traditional “HE seems like a jolly nice chap” method?
Necromacy – another word I like but don’t have much call to use. I’m picking them up like shells on the beach tonight. “Today” is critical self analysis. And then after they’ve made you miserable doing that, they move onto PLU.
These tests must be so against the grain for you doing HE Jax We all know that you can’t tell someone’s personality by what they write – just look at us all and how different some of us seemed at Melrose LOL
If I still worked in recruitment I would make my decisions based on covert research such as hunting down candidates blogs and entries on friendsreunited 🙂
PLU? In Retail that’s Price Look Up – they now select based on how much you will cost??
Hmm, actually that makes sense ……………. Sort of!
I tried Acronym Finder. It says:
PLU Belo Horizonte /Belo Horizon, Minas Gerais, Brazil Confins/Pampulha (Airport Code)
PLU Pacific Lutheran University
PLU Payload Unit
PLU People Like Us (LGBT community)
PLU Phi Lambda Upsilon (National Chemistry Honor Society)
PLU Present Level of Understanding
PLU Price Look-Up
PLU Primary Logical Unit
PLU Probabilistic Location Update
PLU Product Look-Up
PLU Program/Programmable Load Unit
I meant people like us. I see here above they use it as a LGBT term, but I’ve aslo heard it used as a WASP term, and in this part of the country, about whether or not your school had a “saint” in it’s name, or which football team you had a season ticket for 🙁
You mean WASP – We Are Sexy Pagans? 🙂