Just had to do one of those personality quizzes for a KFC near my house and it feels SO fucking strange
The entire system is so fucked up.
Make a resume themed to threplace youre applying (dont use the same one twice)
Apply to like 20 openings
Don't get any responses back ever that they moved on
Have your info sold to a third party so they can still make money off the labor of your application.
Get an interview finally.
Be as fake as a facebook profile so they accept your app.
*Get an interview finally because your high school friend's friend is a shift supervisor at a different location and requests someone actually look at your application
see we joke about that but thats the extent of an email i got back from a Pier1 Imports store i applied to. Effectively "Your personality and qualifications do not match what we are searching for"
Yes. You are a product and you must upsell yourself to prospective employers, listing off all of your features to place you ahead of competing products in the market. Things like maintaining your health, education, etc. are smart investments into the product of you! There's a reason it's called the "job market" and capitalists call themselves "job creators." It's because you aren't a person, you are a commodity.
One of the worst things I've said during an interview is that I'm not really that different from the people competing for the job.
I am very glad I became a cynical bastard around the same time I entered the workforce, because I sure as shit wouldn't get a job if I ever told the truth in interviews.
Yeah, now it's general managers getting $20k salaries with $20k possible bonuses driven to work 100+ hours a week managing 50 other people making less than $20k/year so they can maybe one day pay off their student loans.
Yes, it's by design intended to humiliate you into groveling submission and compete with other workers.
You're supposed to be "shiny happy people" on those. Basically saying yes to positive things and "no" to negative things.
They're total bullshit, which I don't get why HR continues to use because they should know by now that nearly everyone lies on them.
Filtering out the people who aren't that way naturally and don't know they're supposed to pretend otherwise actually serves a function here, I think.
Nah. I worked in a company that implemented this once. The HR rep literally believed that shit and would try to route people to jobs she thought were appropriate to their personalities. All the existing employees took the stupid thing, and I actually got called in to ask if I was happy as a programmer because my Emotional Score didn't fit the expected characteristics. I'd been doing the job for four years already and was their best developer, but she was convinced I'd be better in sales because of the exam.
It's literally a horoscope for Woke Liberals. And while there's definitely an element of managerial flexing in making anyone waste their time on this shit, people do take it seriously.
I mean you're literally selling yourself for set number of hours, the commodity is you and you have to bargain with the buyer for it lol
"Either you pay me for X hours of productive labor, or I'll spend that X hours of labor burning down each and every one of your stores."
The quiz will take your responses and, on the back end, give you values for certain personality traits based on them, and those values have to fall within a certain range of acceptable scores for each personality trait for you to get a call back. The most common personality traits that these quizes test for are extroversion (they want someone who is extroverted, but not too extroverted), agreeableness (they want someone who won't start an argument or speak their mind), organization, and in service industry jobs, what you think about stealing.
just tell em that you'll eat their pig schlop and that you're a team player and stuff
Maybe do the opposite of what you've been doing and see if that works?
Hi there, just dropping in to add my two cents, which is that the answer is yes. Thank you. The answer is yes.
No, it naturally evolved that way from an economic system that is fundamentally dehumanizing
Of course it is. Because when you get hired you aren't an employee or staff member. You're "human capital."
Also it's so weird that even basic entry level workforce jobs have to do personality tests. Ensuring new employees be polite and non-confrontational just enhances the sterility of the experience. If I'm gonna order a Double Down I should be berated by the staff not given a smile and thank you.
