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andrewduckerYesterday I had a 1:1 meeting with an HR representative. These are de-rigeur for all new starts, just making sure we're settling in ok, dealing with our complaints, etc.
So I filled her in with all the glitches at the very start (mentor was on leave for the first 2 weeks, my manager was replaced 3 days in, I was given work that I wasn't trained in until a month later) but reassured her that everything was now flowing smoothly.
And then she fed back my results from the application/induction process. Most of the results were out of 5.
I scored reasonably on the application forms (3s all the way through except for leadership where I scored a 4).
The group assessment I scored 4s all the way through (which apprently is as good as it gets, it being very hard to do perfectly when you're dependent on your team members) and was noted as being very good for gathering other people's opinions and forming them into a coherent whole.
The interview process was also solid 4s (except for teamwork, where I scored a 3), but the interviewers handwriting was so awful we couldn't actually make out what they thought of me.
Apparently all 4s marks me out as a 'definite hire', which is cheering thought.
The place where I really shone, however, were the aptitude tests. These aren't graded in the same way, but by profiling your results against everyone who has ever taken the test before and placing you in a percentile band. So if you're in the 57th percentile then you've done better than 56% of the people who ever took the test (who all have degrees and have got past the initial stages of the application)
There were 3 tests, diagrammatic reasoning, mathematical reasoning and verbal reasoning. They look for at least 60th percentile in each of them. My diagrammatical reasoning (looking through information flows, working out what each part was doing and then using that to build new ones) ranked me in the 69th percentile. My mathematical reasoning is in the 92nd percentile and my verbal reasoning is in the 99th. Which means that 99% of all people who have taken the verbal reasoning test have done worse than me.
I believe I blushed.
So I filled her in with all the glitches at the very start (mentor was on leave for the first 2 weeks, my manager was replaced 3 days in, I was given work that I wasn't trained in until a month later) but reassured her that everything was now flowing smoothly.
And then she fed back my results from the application/induction process. Most of the results were out of 5.
I scored reasonably on the application forms (3s all the way through except for leadership where I scored a 4).
The group assessment I scored 4s all the way through (which apprently is as good as it gets, it being very hard to do perfectly when you're dependent on your team members) and was noted as being very good for gathering other people's opinions and forming them into a coherent whole.
The interview process was also solid 4s (except for teamwork, where I scored a 3), but the interviewers handwriting was so awful we couldn't actually make out what they thought of me.
Apparently all 4s marks me out as a 'definite hire', which is cheering thought.
The place where I really shone, however, were the aptitude tests. These aren't graded in the same way, but by profiling your results against everyone who has ever taken the test before and placing you in a percentile band. So if you're in the 57th percentile then you've done better than 56% of the people who ever took the test (who all have degrees and have got past the initial stages of the application)
There were 3 tests, diagrammatic reasoning, mathematical reasoning and verbal reasoning. They look for at least 60th percentile in each of them. My diagrammatical reasoning (looking through information flows, working out what each part was doing and then using that to build new ones) ranked me in the 69th percentile. My mathematical reasoning is in the 92nd percentile and my verbal reasoning is in the 99th. Which means that 99% of all people who have taken the verbal reasoning test have done worse than me.
I believe I blushed.
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Date: 2003-03-11 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-03-11 05:00 am (UTC)That take your euphoria down any?
Nah, well done. I always do well on that sort of stuff too. Maybe it means nothing as I am getting next to nowt done right now...
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Date: 2003-03-11 05:15 am (UTC)s'weird you got such a high mark on the leadership thing, though, I thought you hated leadership?
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Date: 2003-03-11 06:30 am (UTC)But I'm actually quite good at it, in my own areas of expertise.
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Date: 2003-03-11 11:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-11 12:50 pm (UTC)