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What does everyone think?

So instead of weeding out the disabled, (insert race here), (insert sex here) etc they want to weed out the introverted. I guess they got bored with the first type of discrimination and decided to move onto the next thing they can discriminate against.

I have taken several of those types of personality tests before back in my job hunting days and it was completely obvious that the goal was to weed out introverts. Employers want extrovert social puppet masters who will fit right into their ass kissing cliques.

The better jobs are less likely to use this nonsense. Besides being less authoritarian, having more meaningful work, etc.

Personally, I'm way into writing, but that's a long shot with a lot of luck factors and a lot of external factors.

I like the idea of thinking in terms of both high probability jobs and high potential payoff jobs, and maybe getting two things going at once.

Personally, I know some NTs who have fudged their answers to the Big Five Personality Test so that their peers will view them in a positive light. I suspect that one NT, who seems like an ESTJ to me, might have fudged her answers to the MBTI Test because that test typed her as an INFP. To me, being INFP is like being the very opposite of being an ESTJ. If she fudged her answers, she might have done so because she didn't want to be labelled as the one and only ESTJ among her friends.

Don't want people to ask questions about what they're doing, especially the policies of the call center!

The beauty for the bosses of NAIRU - Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment - justifying the deliberately-created Reserve Army of Labour since 1979.

And NAIRU should not be merely blithely accepted as something which justifies the status quo (which as you point out is accepted and in fact actively promoted by those who do benefit from the status quo!).

We should go ahead and take a deep breath and ask, Is some unemployment really 'necessary' for a modern economy, and might there be better alternatives?

Hmm, most of these things I have taken have been designed to weed out Dishonesty & Theft. All have been based on the MMPI.
A test I know inside & out!

Sincerely,
Matthew

I can see why they do it. I think it makes sense for these kind of "bulk hiring" jobs where you are hiring hundreds (or thousands) of people to do the same work, which is simple enough and common enough that pretty much anyone can be trained to do it. The candidates can't really differentiate themselves in any way other than "I'll stick around for longer", which is what they're specifically looking for, and analysing data to predict that is a valid approach. It wouldn't be valid for more specialised or more individual jobs. Just because most people who do job X have trait Y does not mean trait Y makes for a good candidate for job X. By using that approach you're potentially screening out good candidates - but that's not a problem for call centre jobs where the pool of candidate is large.