A few of my friends are looking for work elsewhere, despite some of them holding highly paid jobs in the city.
However one topic which seems to be populating our lunchtime discussions is the amount of testing a prospective employer can asking a prospective employee to do before a decision is made on whether to offer them employment or not.
What seems to bug them the most is that these are all chaps in their late 30's who have worked in a specific field since leaving university, who have travelled the globe, who have attained pay rises and acclaim and their CV's are spectacular so why after all of this does a prospective employer then ask for the candidate to complete some tests?
Surely their CV and the fact that they have beaten just about everyone else to the post to just get an interview is merit enough?
Who created these tests in the first place? My friends have told me that the people that hand you these tests are sickly 'so proud of them' and in most circumstances the test that my friends have been asked to complete bear no resemblance to the role that they are applying for!
So who is the bigger idiot here? The one doing the test so they can get the job or the idiots at a company who think its suitable to ask a candidate to complete a series of tests that will bear no resemblance on the role once they get it.
3 out of the 5 of my friends walked away from testing scenarios, but they are all employed, they have nothing to lose, and those that have been out of work for months will probably not only do the test but also jump through a few hoops while reciting a Queen song.
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