Asif Osman argues that asking candidates directly if they're hardworking doesn't work because they'll always say yes. Psychometric tests reveal actual personality and working style instead. Major companies use them now, and candidates should learn to interpret their own results.
My name is Asif Osman and here I am once again to give you my short message.
And this time I'd like to talk.
To everyone about something that anybody who's been a manager and who's interviewed people might have experienced an answer to this question. So if you've ever interviewed someone and asked a question, a question might be, are you hard working? And I've interviewed in my working life as a supervisor and as a manager, perhaps over 300 people in the 20, 25 years that I've been working. And almost always the answer is an emphatic yes, meaning I am hard working. And we all know one objective that every candidate who comes to a job.
Has is to try to get the job.
So who would answer that he's not hard working? And very often we might find out.
That he is indeed not hard working at all.
So there's no point in asking that question.
So what is the solution?
And really the solutions been around for several years now.
And for managers, they have more tools at their disposal to be able to.
Find out the real personality of the.
Candidate sitting in front of them. And these are called psychometric tests. And increasingly, websites around the world offer psychometric tests at a fee.
And managers have at their disposal a fairly useful tool which tells them a.
Lot about the candidate, either before the interview or in a second or third stage of the interview. Large companies have already started applying this. Psychometric testing is almost always a part.
Of the hiring process.
If not, at very least, they will ask you to do simple online tests which tell them a little bit about.
Your personality or style of working.
So what is the solution for the candidate in future, I would advise candidates to get themselves tested.
I personally have hooked up with a.
Couple of companies that do psychometric testing.
And I've helped a few young people.
With how to do their tests and how to read their tests so that they improve themselves. One of the things about psychometric testing is that the results show who you are. It is difficult to fool these tests unless you are an expert industrial psychologist.
So the next time you are asked.
Are you hard working, perhaps you should be ready to get tested.
And that will give the real answer to the manager or the company that.
Is actually asking the question. So psychometric testing is going to be a reality of the future.
So if you are not used to.
It, I would suggest get used to it.
If these are God's chosen people then God chose them to test the rest of us.
