OT: Psychological Assessments in Technical Vocations

 I'm between jobs right now (and having contact with recruiters and
applying for jobs).

One employer, as part of their application process, required me to
complete this assessement:

http://www.rembrandtadvantage.com/employee-development

I wrote back to the HR gal and indicated that I:

a)Wasn't willing to provide personal information of that type.

b)Had no evidence that such assessments were predictive of anything in
technical vocations.

c)Would like any research studies they have showing that such
assessments are predictive in technical vocations.

Naturally, I've disqualified myself for employment.

But, how reasonable is my position?  Should I be completing
psychological assessments?  Am I reasonable to balk?  Any other
thoughts?

Thanks, DFC

P.S.--I know that some of you will be offering opinions suggesting
that I deeply need psychological help and the assessment may get me
the help I need.  I respect that sort of humor.  However, please
respond as if this post was coming from someone you didn't know so
much about ... :)

 On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:17:51 -0400, Datesfat Chicks


P.P.S.--I should also mention that I do embedded software for a
living.  So the type of job is software development.

 3d7ce5c62d50@t38g2000prg.googlegroups.com:


  Actually, it is neither what you know nor who you know.  It's what you
know *about* who you know...

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 On 10/25/2011 6:19 PM, Datesfat Chicks wrote:

Don't do it if you don't want to. Everybody does things differently,
and there's no rule that you must take a psychological assessment to
get a job. It also might be a sign that they don't know what they're
doing, and you wouldn't like working there.

--
Jared

 
I've never had a very high opinion of companies that leave
their candidate selection and screening in the hands of HR.
Recruiting skills and HR skills are not at all the same.

I don't know whether I'd have completed the assessment or not.
No particular objection to sharing who I am, but dislike long
bureaucratic application processes and companies who feel like
they're doing you a favor to interview you.

To my way of thinking, it's in everybody's best interest to figure
out if it's a good job match. Going into an interview, I'd like to
think we were both trying to figure that out.