Recently, someone I know has been job hunting. Most of the jobs are peon retail positions, at places like Petco, Hot topic or the generic shoe/clothing store-for close to minimum wage. I'll admit, I haven't had the (dis)pleasure of job hunting for a while, but I can't fucking believe the hoops people have to jump through nowadays to try to land a job! In addition to the usual crap, like work history, education and references, applicants are now required to consent to background checks, credit checks and 200 question personality evaluations!
After watching my job-hunting friend spend a solid two hours on one of these crap-lications (sorry), I asked her, "are you applying to a pet store, or the CIA?"
Finally, after all of this rigmarole, the potential employer may or may not honor the applicant with a generic email stating: "if you meet our qualifications, we'll contact you for an interview. "
For me, the kicker is going to said workplaces and seeing the semi-functional, drooling simpletons that are already working for these companies. I always wonder to myself: "wait, this is the kind of shining superstar of an employee that makes it through the application equivalent of a Tough Mudder and actually gets the job?"
Maybe I've got it all wrong, and the real purpose of the personality questionnaire is to find the densest, least independent-thinking applicants who'll make the best corporate worker drones.
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