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Overheard a hiring manager laugh at a rejected applicant's quiz score
Last Tuesday at a coffee shop on 5th Ave, two HR folks from a retail chain were talking about their new pre-employment personality test. One said, "Yeah, the algorithm flagged her as too impulsive, so we trashed her resume without even an interview." The thing is, she'd been a store manager for 8 years and had great numbers. I looked up the test vendor later and found zero public validation studies. How are we letting random online quizzes decide someone's livelihood? Has anyone else seen a screener that clearly rewards one personality type over actual job skills?
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murphy.tessa6d ago
Wait till you realize those same quizzes are probably screening out the people who'd actually push back on bad ideas, which is exactly who you want running a store... if you ask me the test's real job is keeping the status quo comfortable.
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