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Bovertine, this job was a SVP role- I wasn't offended since my current employer asks everyone their scores so I know the drill. Many senior candidates do get offended; some don't remember; some assure us that their 25 years of achievement more than outweigh their performance on a single test taken many years ago.
Very true. But just as there is no single indicator of whether the guy you are dating is going to be a good marriage partner or good father-- you would probably advise your niece or daughter to look at lots of different factors, there is no single datapoint which tells an employer whether an employee would be a good fit.
But lots of different factors, interpreted appropriately, can help improve the odds of a good hire tremendously. And for all of you who decry the elitist hiring practices and the "old boys network" in place in corporate America- the use of data to drive hiring decisions, vs. "my college roommate plays squash with this guy and said he's the brightest guy to ever graduate from Dartmouth" should be greatly preferred. My own company has all employees go through the same hiring process-- it eliminates the "CEO's idiot nephew syndrome" when all candidates- regardless of source- have to jump the same hurdles.
My first job out of business school I had to take a standardized test developed and administered by the company. They've had court challenges that the test is discriminatory but they've won. The test discriminates against those who cannot do college level and graduate school level math which the court found was a reasonable criterion based on the requirements of the job.
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