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Subject:Re: writing tests are for wussies... From:"Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 21 May 2002 14:57:03 -0600
On 20 May 2002 at 22:22, Goober wrote:
> Have any of you ever been administered an IQ test
> during an interview? Any other weird test?
When I first came to Logan, I applied for secretarial positions at UT
State University (I figured I'd worked 8 years in similar positions at
Georgia Tech, so I'd be a good candidate).
They asked me to go to job service and take a battery of tests.
There were typing and proofreading tests, but the other tests were
basically manual dexterity tests -- flip little pegs over in their holes,
put washers on screws and place them in holes, etc.
I would finish a test, look around, and everyone else in the room
would still be struggling. I completed most of the tests in half the
time as the other victims.
I essentially found out I would make a great production
worker...sigh...must be all those years of typing.
Dana W.
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