Asda online personality test rejection

Blackpool_Saver

Outpost wrote: »

Apply for a job at Asda.

No thanks, if I have to go in there I go during the night when it's deserted !!!!

Gordon_Hose

If you didn't pass an online personality test, then it's not Asda's fault lol

If you get angry at failing an online personality test, I'd hate to think what would happen if you were confronted with a difficult customer.

hello2007

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.

Sometimes when companies get too many people passing the tests they raise the pass mark to cut down on the appications.

I have personal experience of this I apply for a job a while ago and had to do a questionarie and was rejected. I call the company for feedback and they told me that I had pass the test but because they had more 500 applications for one role that they had to cut down on the applications by raising the pass mark. The mark that I scored was just over a pass which was not high enough.

So my advice is score highly on future tests and so if they raise the pass mark then you will still be in for a chance of a interview.

Outpost

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.

Then clearly you didn't answer the questions properly, or you would have passed the test rather than failed it.

Calling the tests that Asda wish to use to help recruit their staff 'ridiculous' because you failed them smacks of sour grapes, like someone calling driving tests 'ridiculous' because they failed one of those.

They're not 'ridiculous' because you've failed one.

Truegho wrote: »

And I don't understand where you get your info from in saying that "hundreds" pass these tests all the time.

Asda are a flourishing business employing hundreds of thousands of people. They are regularly opening new stores requiring the recruitment of new staff to operate. Personality tests are apparently a part of that recruitment process.

Again, not brain surgery working that out is it?

925dancer

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.

Well, considering how many employees ASDA has all over the country and the number of recruitment days they appear to do (the assessment interview thingies) then it would indicate that plenty of people can and do pass the personality tests................

Outpost

Gordon_Hose wrote: »

If you didn't pass an online personality test, then it's not Asda's fault lol

I'm heartened that someone else has spotted this.

Blackpool_Saver

Surely a failure to pass this test is not always an indication that the candidate is somehow not up to it? surely it can mean that perhaps a less customer focussed roll is more suitable?

Truegho

No, sorry, don't agree with you at all.

Thousands and thousands of people think these tests are ridiculous. End of.

Outpost wrote: »

Then clearly you didn't answer the questions properly, or you would have passed the test rather than failed it.

Calling the tests that Asda wish to use to help recruit their staff 'ridiculous' because you failed them smacks of sour grapes, like someone calling driving tests 'ridiculous' because they failed one of those.

They're not 'ridiculous' because you've failed one.


Asda are a flourishing business employing hundreds of thousands of people. They are regularly opening new stores requiring the recruitment of new staff to operate. Personality tests are apparently a part of that recruitment process.

Again, not brain surgery working that out is it?

Outpost

Truegho wrote: »

No, sorry, don't agree with you at all.

Thousands and thousands of people think these tests are ridiculous. End of.

I'd venture that those people with the ability/mindset to pass them don't think they're ridiculous.

End of...

goodgirl80

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

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

Yes. Maybe they found out the OP actually had a personality.