RE: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Simil ar

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Dori Green [mailto:dgreen -at- associatedbrands -dot- com]
 If they have 
> never heard of
> "Emotional Quotient" I don't necessarily hold that against 
> them but do sort
> of wonder where they've been hiding for the past ten or 
> fifteen years and
> how much interest they have in self-development of people skills.

Maybe they just haven't been interested in that kind of stuff.
There's only so much room in a person's day and in their 
head for pursuing interests and flights of fancy. Even 
for someone with curiosity about darn near everything, 
like me has to pick and choose on some basis. I continue 
to know nothing useful about macramé... (of course, if I 
knew a _lot_ about macrame I might still know nothing useful 
about it...)

If you were running a sports team, would you turn away 
a natural athlete just because s/he wasn't a wiz in 
theoretical kinesiology?

> If an EQ quiz is too "touchee feelee" for them, they probably 
> would not be
> applying at my not-for-profit Center for Sustainable 
> Alternatives in the
> first place -- but one never knows.  

The two best sales reps I ever met never opened a book about 
sales training and improving one's technique. Many mediocre 
sales reps spend an inordinate amount of time reading self-help 
for sales people books, rehearsing techniques, and yet never 
getting discernibly better.

> When I started my job here I did EQ
> quizzes with a few of my co-workers and they provided the 
> springboard for
> some discussions that helped us to bond very quickly.

About once a year or so, somebody around here 
revives that personality-typing stuff, and there's 
a flurry of conversation and of getting the newbies 
to take one of the on-line tests, and it turns 
out that I'm still an INTJ or an INTP (depends on 
day of the week and time of the month (and I'm a guy)), 
and that our shop is a mix of types, even though there 
are more engineers and s/w developers per square foot 
than in society at large.

Then, everybody forgets about it for another year.
Even the people who naturally get all enthusiastic 
about that sort of thing ... forget about it... as 
they admit when asked during the next cycle. That is,
they don't 'put to work what they have learned about 
their co-workers and themselves'.  

This year, it's not due for another few months. I 
think the political-spectrum chat will come around 
first -- you know... they say left and they say right 
and I say you don't hold with that outdated stuff, 
do you... how last century of you.   :-)

But EQ ?  The spectrum from lidless sociopath to 
gushing heart-on-sleever?  We haven't added that 
to our entertainments.  Yet.

Kevin (who gets all misty-eyed when Bambi's mom dies)

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