介绍： Business

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Bartleby

巴托比专栏

Questionable behaviour

别有用心的行为

Companies are relying more and more on psychometric tests

公司们越来越依赖心理计量测验

Here is a test. Assign a score of 1 to 5, where 1 is “strongly agree” and 5 is “strongly disagree”, to the following statement: “I rea...

介绍： Business

商业版块

Bartleby

巴托比专栏

Questionable behaviour

别有用心的行为

Companies are relying more and more on psychometric tests

公司们越来越依赖心理计量测验

Here is a test. Assign a score of 1 to 5, where 1 is “strongly agree” and 5 is “strongly disagree”, to the following statement: “I really care about my work.” If you have answered that kind of question before, you have probably applied for a job at a large company. Psychometric tests, as they are called, have become increasingly popular.

这是一份测试。请针对下列表述：“我真的很在乎我的工作”，打1到5分，1分代表“非常同意”，5分代表“非常不同意”。如果你之前回答过这类问题，那你可能曾经申请过一家大公司的工作。这种所谓的心理测试已经变得越来越受青睐。

Eager job-seekers may think the answers to these questions are glaringly obvious. For any statement, give a response that creates a portrait of a diligent, collaborative worker. Of course, applicants care about their work, love collaborating with other people and pay careful attention to detail. But the people who set the tests know that candidates will respond this way. So questions are rephrased in many different ways to check that applicants are consistent and make it difficult for them to remember what they have already said.

迫切的求职者可能会觉得这些问题的答案显而易见。针对每一条表述，都要做出一个能够反映勤奋、协作的员工形象的回答。当然，求职者也要表明自己在乎工作、喜欢与他人合作、而且十分注重细节。但是设置这些入职测试的人知道应试者会以这样的方式进行作答。因此，他们会用多种不同的方式重新措辞这些问题，以检验求职者是否作答一致，而且还要让求职者们很难记得自己之前的答案。