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Witt/Kieffer: Can You Outsmart a Behavioral Assessment?
Richard Metheny’s, practice leader of Leadership Solutions at Witt/Kieffer, article “Can You Outsmart a Behavioral Assessment?” was published in CFO Magazine. This article discusses the benefits of comprehensive behavioral assessments.
The following is an excerpt from the article: “If you’ve ever been a strong candidate for a C-suite position, chances are you’ve undergone a personality and behavioral assessment. It’s that online questionnaire with hundreds of questions about your preferences, beliefs and feelings, many of them difficult to answer, some repeated multiple times using different wording. You get a sense that they’re trying to trick you. That’s because “they” are. It’s a conspiracy of sorts, involving some combination of prospective employer, recruiting firm, and the developer of the test.”