Q. I didn't get a job that I interviewed for. The employer told me that I had "failed"
personality quiz. How is that possible? Does this mean that I have no personality?A. "Fail" is a pretty strong word when it comes to taking a personality quiz. In fact, it is so strong that it makes me wonder about professionalism of potential employer that administered personality quiz to you.
There is no pass/fail in a personality quiz; especially an employment personality quiz. There are simply factors that are important to employer that either are, or are not, present in your personality.
To say that you "failed" personality quiz is a misnomer. You simply did not have some personality traits that employer deemed important for particular job that you applied for.
Other than fact that they insulted you, they probably did you a favor by giving you that personality quiz. By screening you out based upon a certain personality profile, they saved you from accepting a job that you would probably have ended up hating and leaving after a short while.
A personality quiz is an interesting animal. There are actually many different types. You've already encountered a pre-employment personality quiz, but that's not only type out there.
Before we go off into subject of a personality quiz, it's important that we agree upon definition of term personality. Let's keep it short:
Your personality consists of all traits and behaviours that make you unique and that determine how you are likely to act in any given situation.
Given that this definition is true, then a personality quiz is designed to measure those traits and to quantify them into some meaningful profile that enables someone to predict how you will behave.
Is that really possible? Yes, in most instances it is possible to accurately how someone is LIKELY to behave under a given set of circumstances. The key word here is LIKELY. We've all seen or read about people who have exhibited extraordinary acts of heroism who were otherwise thought of as a most unlikely hero due to being timid, shy, young, or whatever.
