Almost had a job, need new personality apparently!!!!!!

So, continuing on with my crappy week….. 

Got a lead on a job.  Went to an interview on Friday afternoon.  Interview goes great.  I am thinking finally….I can start working and gaining some income to make the creditors stop.  Then I have to take some type of personality test to see if I will be successful.  I am thinking GREAT, now some f”ing computerized program is going to tell me if I can have a damn job.  Are you f’in serious?????  

YUP they’re serious.  So this job is in insurance sales.  I don’t really want it, but I really need it!!  And I have a license already, so what the hell?  This test was monotous and long and just trying to see if I would be able to make it as a first year sales insurance person.  IT SUCKED!!!  The only good thing is that I got the results right then.  In order to get hired, which I would have been had I passed the stupid test, you have go score at least a 12.  So, I get a 5.  F$%K!!!!!   So I thank the hiring manager for his time and apologize for wasting 2.5 hours of it and I still don’t have a job!!!

I asked him if he could email me the report so I could read what it was looking for and compare it to what I had or didn’t have.  That was a mistake.  Should have just left it alone and accepted that the computer program called me a 5.  I read the report and find that I scored high in all the categories except 1:  9 out of 10 for Persuasiveness, 8 out of 10 for Energy, 9 out of 10 for Initiative and Persistence, but I score low for Achievement Drive.  So why do I score low for this category I wondered….. Well, apparently if you aren’t motivated by recognition, prestige, power, job security, and travel then this job isn’t for you.  And guess what, I am not.  I told the hiring manager that I am motivated by cold hard cash.  It’s all about the money for me.  If I can make a good wage, I will work my arse off.  (Been there, one that!)  Having a plaque on the wall and getting honored at some year end retreat, just doesn’t do it for me.  Making kick arse commission does!

So, apparently since the company doesn’t feel that their “extras” won’t motivate me, they don’t want me.  I am kind of angry about the whole thing, because I know that I could have kicked some serious arse.  Even the hiring manager said, he wished that I had scored higher on the profile but since I didn’t there was nothing he could do. 

And really, that says a lot.  So to put it into a more “zen” perspective, would I really be happy working with someone who believed I would rock in the job, but let a computerized program hold him back.  Nope!

If you read the report, you can tell eaisly what it really says, and any manager worth his salt would have bypassed it and gone ahead with the hire.  But this guy didn’t.  So, I believe I am much better off and something better is waiting!!!!  (Damn that positive attitude!!) 

Wish me luck!  AND if you have to take this type of test, make sure to put down that recognition and all that other crap is important to you!