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Personality Tests Are Failing American Workers
All too often, they filter people out for the wrong reasons.
What kind of employee are you?
Photograph: Keystone/Getty ImagesIf you applied for a job recently, there’s a good chance that you were subjected to a personality test. In some areas, the tests have become ubiquitous as U.S. employers seek ways to make the hiring process more efficient.
That’s unfortunate, because the tests might be filtering people out according to traits that bear little or no relation to their potential as employees.