I’m sure that it is not only Target who quizzes applicants in order to get a sample of his or her personality. In fact, many big stores and companies who are hiring general labor are beginning to add a personality test as a part of their application.
Some of these questions are no brainers, such as “Do you smoke Marijuana?” Well, as one may guess, if you answer “yes” to that question, chances are you aren’t going to get hired. Here are some other ones that may amuse you. The questions have answers that are multiple choice as well as true/false.
These are just some of the sample questions that are on the Target application. I’m sure after reading this, one can get a picture of their “ideal worker”.
The multiple choice responses were quite interesting too, because some people don’t belong in either extreme of “goody two shoes” or “total rebel”; of “optimism” or “pessimism”; or etc.
Anyway, hope you enjoy!
I’ve read that the trick to passing the pre-employment questionnaire is to always pick the extreme answers (either
extreme) because they want people who can make up their mind. Also, I’ve read that you should indicate with your answers that you would deal with difficult customers/customer complaints yourself as much as possible, before going (“whining”) to your supervisor. For a really good (I think) article on this subject, visit Ehow.com’s article on the subject.
P.S. Click “Ehow.com” above, it’s a link.