Psychometric Tests For Simple Retail Jobs

DCFC79

Apart form the DWP test which other tests dnt you like, the asda ones, you really dont like the tests do you truegho.

shellsuit

Why have you posted yet another thread on the same subject?!

Sambucus_Nigra

Truegho wrote: »

I DO answer each question with my own beliefs. Sadly, apart from passing the DWP ones, I never have any luck with the retail tests.

They are very good at picking up things like, for example, extreme anger.

Perhaps you aren't really right for retail?

bluebeary

do you think it picks up if you answer them to quickl ?

i took my time with mine, i read each answers and thought about the positive and negative aspects of each reply before making up my mind

DCFC79

OP have you tried aldi or lidl for jobs, they dont seem to use the questions. You thought about setting up a blog for all this,

Truegho

No, haven't tried those two stores. Will check out (ha, ha, unintended pun there!).

Thanks for the advice.

DCFC79 wrote: »

OP have you tried aldi or lidl for jobs, they dont seem to use the questions. You thought about setting up a blog for all this,

KiKi

Psychometric tests also show 'compliance' - ie, patterns of putting what you think they want to hear.

You cannot pass or fail - they merely show your own preferences (or your compliance for what you think they want to hear).

One reason you may not be going any further in that process is because the test results - along with your application form - are not considered appropriate enough when there are HUNDREDS of people applying. It might not be that you've failed in the process, simply that there are people better than you.

And lastly, just because you don't like / don't understand the tests, it doesn't make them useless, or that they should be scrapped. For volume recruitment, for example, they are incredibly useful. If retail stores could not use them, they would have to make application criteria so specific, that it would rule out a lot of people from applying. And then you'd have something else to complain about.

KiKi

DCFC79

Truegho wrote: »

No, haven't tried those two stores. Will check out (ha, ha, unintended pun there!).

Thanks for the advice.

just checked lidl job site and it says nationwide opputunities so not very specific but apply none the less,

aldi have new stores opening, other than that you have to ask in store unless they have a poster up, ive found a job at aldi on direct.gov qwebsite so give that a shot maybe, according to that link theres a new store opening in bootle but it doesnt say if its already open or due to open