While applying for post-graduation jobs this semester, I’ve stumbled across a baffling aspect of the application process for some companies: a personality test. When the company I applied to requested ...

You try not to take rejection personally when looking for a job, but that’s tough to do as more companies add personality tests to their hiring screens. Just ask Nick Malik, who’s been given online ...

The 10 young men and women were there to impress. Decked out in their best suits, they were vying for hourly work as sales associates, ride operators, drivers and cooks at Universal Studios Hollywood ...

Reader: I work for a small arts nonprofit of about 50 employees, in an almost janitorial labor-type position, and I really enjoy my job. The new executive director has decided we all need to get to ...

Statistics collected by the Association of Test Publishers indicates that the use of pre-employment personality testing is growing by around 15% per year. What do you need to know if a prospective ...

About 80% of the Fortune 500 use personality tests, with more than 80 million Americans completing an employment-related quiz every year—companies like Olive Garden and FedEx are already on the ...

Even though personality tests like Myers-Briggs have been widely discredited — Adam Grant says if you put a horoscope on one end and a heart monitor on the other, the MBTI falls about halfway in ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Personality tests are becoming more common when applying for work but psychologists said companies might want to reconsider using them because they give little insight into ...

A job applicant was taken aback by a personality survey that she had to fill out just to get a summer job at Olive Garden. The TikToker, who posts under @oh.hxnxy, documented her experience of having ...

A growing number of employers are using assessments to get to know job seekers in the pandemic. If you're a nervous test taker, Insider spoke to experts about what to expect from job assessments.

Personality tests can be fun to take, but they can also be frustrating. They’re black and white. Most popular personality tests assume that people can be classified into distinct personality types.

Gen Z, millennials, and Gen X were all taught a simple formula when applying to jobs: turn in a résumé and cover letter, and hope for the best. But that old-school method may be on its way out. In ...