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Old Oct 20, 2011, 12:12 PM
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My advice on those tests is to answer honestly and not to try to beat the test. First off they'll have multiple questions getting to the same point, but asked differently, so lying you're most likely to get tripped up.

Second psych tests are meant to find out if you'd be a good fit for the job. I used to work for a company that did psych tests on all it's employees, so I became reasonably good at reading them since I was involved in hiring. It was amazing the number of accountant's who came in who had a sales or some other profile completely opposite to what you want in an accountant. When I asked them, why they'd become accountants they inevitably answered that someone, usually their Dad had told them it was a good stable career. (We hired a lot of people right out of college) But they would have been lousy accountants and hated the job. I finally found someone with the "right" profile and she worked out perfectly and is still happilly in the job 9 years later.

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