Personality Tests for Hiring (2017 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 12 May 2024
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October 25, 2017
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| 0:00.0 | So, Berto, have you ever taken a personality test or some other kind of test in order to get hired or at your job? |
| 0:10.1 | You know, you're applying for a job and they they in addition to interviewing you they they make you |
| 0:16.0 | You know complete this personality test to see like how screwed up you are have you ever done that before you, not as part of a job interview. |
| 0:23.6 | I've certainly done personality tests before with you even. |
| 0:26.4 | I've submitted you to a few. |
| 0:29.2 | Right. |
| 0:30.2 | Subjected you to... |
| 0:31.2 | Submitted me. But you've, but you've, but you've done them at work as a part of like... |
| 0:37.6 | Oh yeah, I've done that as part of training and things like that, but not as part of a job interview. |
| 0:42.1 | I've done it. |
| 0:43.2 | What do you mean training? |
| 0:44.2 | There were classes that I took where it was... |
| 0:47.2 | How to communicate better. |
| 0:48.6 | Things like that and then so part of the class was like, okay, you're going to take |
| 0:51.2 | this personality test and we're going to talk about how to work with different kinds of personalities. |
| 0:55.2 | But you've never been tested as a part of being hired. Not that I can remember. Okay well that's what I want to talk about today |
| 1:04.7 | because you actually asked that we talk about this. Yeah, but I've had a lot of jobs so I might have forgotten. Yeah, that's true. I'm surprised you haven't |
| 1:09.7 | had a job as a tester of personalities for hiring actually. |
| 1:13.0 | Well, maybe in the future. |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah, well that's what we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:16.7 | We're going to talk about the widespread use of psychological testing for hiring and the debate about it because there's a lot we can say |
| 1:26.4 | and there's a lot of research on it. |
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