Over the past one month I have been wondering how an idiot like Faffarsh could get into a big company like Haggu UnLimited. To be honest to him, that dude is hanging in there despite having minimal talent, fictitous brains and ego bigger than Pamela's twins. So I donned my Sherlock Holmes cap and dug deep into his HR files. Beneath layers of Bullshit lied the answer: Psychometric tests.
Psychometric tests are an amazing tool that mankind had discovered long time back but nobody could ever put it to any 'constructive' use. It was touted as something that could save the earth by precisely letting you know which dude was a 'fit'. Pretty much like Nuclear Fission. They told you it was for 'harnessing' power and reducing dependence on fossil fuels. And what was it first used for ?? The Atomic Bomb. Trust HR to come up with a life-saving mode of evaluation like a Psychometric test.
To put the icing on the cake suddenly it also became an 'shortlisting' tool. I realised how potent this was when quite a few companies began using this in their campus recruitment process. Suddenly companies realized intelligence and talent were secondary requirement. To understand how companies use these tests I dug deeper into Faffarsh's files.
These tests are simple but very very long often asking very vague questions. Further they keep repeating the same questions in all known form of tenses (past / present / future), voices (active / passive), wording (positive / negative) etc.
Finally based on the responses they bucket people in the 2x2 matrix. Based on where you are in the matrix you will either be shortlisted / rejected.
So the next time they ask you how Global recession happened despite companies hiring the 'best of talent' simply point towards the HR.
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