Yeah, I agree. It's really very frustrating to fail because i apparently have the wrong personailty.
But I don't think it's as simple as that. Although I have no connection to NATS so I don't know how their process works, I think the personality questionnaire si used to determine if you are successful if you are borderline on any of the other tests at stage 2.
So in my case, I am confident that i passed the aptitude tests (I did many of these to get my current job with a huge multinational corporation and did very well in them). But I am sure I could have done much better in the motivational paper. So, I think if my personiilty was a strong match for what they're looking for, perhaps I would have got through.
So i think the strength of my personality results weren't good enough to make up for the poor mark in the motivational paper.
I doubt my personality will change significantly in the next year until i reapply, but I know I can do better in the motivational paper, and hopefully that will be enough.
I hope that makes sense.
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I agree with above, I don't think it's strictly about "passing" or "failing" a personality test. I think the PQ assesses how strongly you match to their ideal. They obviously don't employ just one type of person.
I believe, having read this entire thread that they used to only ask people who were borderline passing the stage one tests to complete the PQ, but have since decided to get eveyone to complete it.
I think if you are borderline on any of the tests but strongly match their personilty ideal, you may still get through.
But, as with all of this... there is so much speculation from all the candidates, all anyone can do is their best..if it's meant to be, it's meant to be.
Last edited by kudos_ni; 6th April 2009 at 16:15.