How much do personality surveys affect your job prospects?
Wanted an opinion...i recently had a final round at a great company. It was my 3rd interview for an entry-level sales position. I met all the sales managers and was told by HR that i was pretty much a shoe-in and just had to wait for a spot to open. A few days later, HR contacted me and said the bosses wanted me to fill out the online application asap and take a quick personality survey. (i was referred so never actually applied online)
I believe I should get the offer, but do you think that a certain outcome on the survey will kill my chances. It was one of those "there are no right or wrong answers" survey.
If they've already met with me several times and pretty much went through every question possible, do you think I could still mess it up if the personality test result does not fit their preferred candidate profile?
Or was the test just a formality that all applicants have to take?





I'm definitely not qualified
I'm definitely not qualified to answer this question, but I would think that, unless the survey made you seem psychopathic, you should be fine.
Good Luck!
I once had to take an
I once had to take an aptitude test to see if my skills naturally lent themselves to finance. It took 2 days and 8 hours. It was extremely strange.
Tests included:
1 -being told to write down as many things I could make with a needle, string, and a biscuit
2 - hearing tones and then ranking them in order of pitch
3 - seeing a random shape for 3 seconds and then trying to re-draw it perfectly
4 - getting a bunch of information tossed at me for 30 minutes that no one would ever know and then taking a test.
5 - trying to pick up metal pins with tweasers and put them in holes and fast as possible
6 - a bunch of other tests.
Sorry to not answer your question, but this post triggered that memory and I never forgot how weird it was.
"They are all former investment bankers that were laid off in the economic collapse that Nancy Pelosi caused. They have no marketable skills, but by God they work hard."