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Article: Employers increasingly using personality tests before hiring.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- January 31, 2003
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Byline: Harry Wessel
Not so long ago, getting a job was a three-step process. You filled out an application, handed in a resume and sat down for a face-to-face interview.
Increasingly, a fourth step has been added: a pre-employment test _ although it usually is not called a test _ designed to predict how you will behave on the job.
These predictive-behavior personality tests _ also known as personality assessments, profiles, surveys, inventories, etc. _ are used by most Fortune 1,000 companies and increasingly by medium-sized and small companies as the test cost drops and their availability increases.
Some experts say the tests do a ...