Asda online personality test rejection

Truegho

I am very depressed and angry at having just been rejected following an ASDA online personality test I had to do for just a simple Checkout Operator job. Furthermore, I can't apply to them again now for at least six months, which has only exacerbated my misery.

Has anybody else received a job rejection from ASDA - or indeed from any other retailer - following failure to successfully pass these ridiculous, lengthy online personality questionnaires?

Googlewhacker

so you've failed another one of these tests, doesn't this suggest to you that maybe you should prepare your answers a bit better and more importantly doesn't it show that differant companies tests cannot be wrong?

alyth

If you search through the threads there was a similar thread perhaps a couple of weeks ago, where someone had been rejected and advice was given.

Blackpool_Saver

maybe Truego isn't malleable enough to be an Asda trained monkey, there are
a certain type who work at Asda

Googlewhacker

alyth wrote: »

If you search through the threads there was a similar thread perhaps a couple of weeks ago, where someone had been rejected and advice was given.

If you search the OP's threads you will see numerous threads started by them on a similar vein.

I feel for the OP but the do just seem to ignore advice given.

hello2007

Truegho wrote: »

I am very depressed and angry at having just been rejected following an ASDA online personality test I had to do for just a simple Checkout Operator job. Furthermore, I can't apply to them again now for at least six months, which has only exacerbated my misery.

Has anybody else received a job rejection from ASDA - or indeed from any other retailer - following failure to successfully pass these ridiculous, lengthy online personality questionnaires?

I had do a questionnarie for my new job that had 65 questions that I had to pass in order to be selected for interview. The advice that I was given by the personnel at the company was to tail my answers to job role.

My new job is not in retail through so I am not sure about the questionnaires for retail.

Outpost

Truegho wrote: »

Has anybody else received a job rejection from ASDA - or indeed from any other retailer - following failure to successfully pass these ridiculous, lengthy online personality questionnaires?

I love this attitude!

"Ridiculous" personality tests that you failed that hundreds, possibly thousands of people pass every month. Stamping your feet and calling them stupid because you weren't able to pass one.

I'm sorry but these tests aren't rocket science, for the obvious reason that people aren't required to have a brain-surgeon level of ability to scan items through a computerised till. Most involve pretty obvious loaded questions that look for qualities like: can work as part of a team, honest, punctual, customer-service orientated, all that jazz.

Okay you failed, but don't start blaming the process now because you couldn't pass a personality assessment test that hundreds of people regularly pass during Asda's recruitment process.

Truegho

I don't understand your attitude. I answered ALL those questions highlighting ALL those attributes you mentioned (e.g. good team player etc.) which I deemed important to the job role, yet they still turned me down. And I don't understand where you get your info from in saying that "hundreds" pass these tests all the time.

Outpost wrote: »

I love this attitude!

"Ridiculous" personality tests that you failed that hundreds, possibly thousands of people pass every month. Stamping your feet and calling them stupid because you weren't able to pass one.

I'm sorry but these tests aren't rocket science, for the obvious reason that people aren't required to have a brain-surgeon level of ability to scan items through a computerised till. Most involve pretty obvious loaded questions that look for qualities like: can work as part of a team, honest, punctual, customer-service orientated, all that jazz.

Okay you failed, but don't start blaming the process now because you couldn't pass a personality assessment test that hundreds of people regularly pass during Asda's recruitment process.

Blackpool_Saver

i would love to see one of these tests for myself

Outpost

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

i would love to see one of these tests for myself

Apply for a job at Asda.

Meepster

Truegho wrote: »

I don't understand your attitude. I answered ALL those questions highlighting ALL those attributes you mentioned (e.g. good team player etc.) which I deemed important to the job role, yet they still turned me down. And I don't understand where you get your info from in saying that "hundreds" pass these tests all the time.

I've passed a few of these types of tests, one of which was for ASDA and to be fair, it wasn't exactly difficult. I even made it through 3 rounds of interviews and got offered a department manager position (I turned it down though, they weren't paying enough) Anyhows, my point is, these type of tests are there to gauge how a person would be from a customer service point of view and a general indication of their personality.

If you have failed a few of them (as you indicate) maybe you're looking for the wrong type of work?