Psychometric Testing

Friday was psychometric testing day. Its never been very popular – and today, true to form, 4 students. They get a battery of 3 tests and are scored and normed against a population of UK undergrad and postgrad students.

What surprised is how positive the students were about the whole experience. They thought that it should be made compulsory! I think they liked the inherent drama of the timed test which is very difficult to  finish.

I explained that for most firms this kind of test was increasingly done on-line, although it is quite common for candidates who do well enough to be invited for a selection centre to be re-tested to see if it was actually them who did the test not their much cleverer friend. Identity fraud being all too easy in the cyber-world.