Harry Wallop
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Well, that's interesting.
That is interesting.
Yeah.
I mean, those, but I think the whole thing about personality test when they work well, it's companies.
And this is what I was told.
It's not that we all want exactly the same person in the company.
Obviously everyone's a bit different.
And in fact, if we're hiring board level, we may have a gap.
We may have lots of people who are
We may have lots of people who are very quick decision makers and not very good at empathy.
So we need to fill that gap with someone with a bit more empathy, for instance.
Well, I think that's explained by the fact the job market is pretty terrible at the moment, and most people are finding it very hard to get jobs.
And of course, part of this is to do with AI.
It's never become easier to get AI to do the screening process.
Most clever people then use AI to get around the screening process.
You've got AI speaking to AI.
And you can fire off 100 now job applications in one day in a way that was impossible.
And when I was starting out, you had to find an envelope and a stamp and go to the letterbox to send off your application.
You've got these people saying, I sent off 500 applications.
I haven't heard back from anyone.