These questionnaires are just a set of questions set to some algorithm score prepared by some company to sell to employers. All you have to do is be consistent with your answers. Any person can beat them by lying. Just pretend you are the most honest upstanding citizen on the planet and you are a winner. Here is a question on one of these we had at my job:
If you needed to use a pen and found one laying down with no one around, would you
1. Take it.
2. Ask a manager.
3. Take it and return it later.
4. Some other fucking answer that I can't remember.
The correct answer was to ask a manager. As stupid as it sounds, that's what they want to hear. Can you possibly imagine this happening at your job? Go find the boss to hunt down who's Bic this is. The test is totally useless but some suits in HR were sold this line of shit. Easy to reject applications saying that they are avoiding potential problems. Just a way of having to do less background checks. Trust me, I have been in the hiring and firing business for many years.
BobJustBob.
Exactly.
The person conducting the questionnaire, or in this case the employer, isn't individually going through every questionnaire and pondering whether you would be right for the job. These questions have a set of answers that they deem correct. They're not judging your answers and figuring out what type of person you are. They're matching up your answers with an answer sheet.
Don't over analyze these things. Answer them the way you think a perfect, pure, pristine, goody-two-shoes boss wants them to be answered. They can get to know the real you after you're hired.
How often do you think people are truly honest when they fill out these types of applications? I usually try to be, but honesty is not key in these things, unfortunately. They don't want an honest person, they want a perfect person. For instance, on the questionnaire I mentioned in my previous post, it was about customer service. There were questions like, "A customer complains that his food was not prepared properly, but he waited to complain until after he finished eating it. You should apologize and comp his meal." And the options were "Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, and Strongly Disagree." I think I put "Agree." But if I answered that question truthfully, I would have put "Strongly Disagree." Because a situation like that really is a bunch of bullshit, and I've dealt with so many situations like that, that I've lost count. They shouldn't be allowed a free meal if they already ate the entire thing before complaining. Many times, there was absolutely nothing wrong with the meal, but they complained just to get it for free. I've caught customers doing this red handed. But there's nothing you can do about it.
So again, these people aren't judging your personality based on your answers. They are looking for the right answers, whether they're honest answers or not.
