To those young graduates who are convinced a resume highlighting a comparative lit degree and fast-food work experience is holding them back from getting a real job, fear not. Startup Cream.hr is offering an alternative to resumes in its pre-employment test, a scientific barrage of questions that the company claims can unearth the perfect job candidates even if they don’t necessarily have the most relevant work experience or college degree on paper.
对于那些初入职场、笃信拿着写有文学士学位和快餐式实习的简历是找不到好工作的毕业生们——现在你们的春天到了！Cream.hr提供可替代简历的职前心理测量服务，此项测试据称可以通过一系列问题找到最适合某项职位的求职者，完全不受此人是否有相关工作经验或大学学位的影响。
Founded not quite a year ago, Cream.hr uses a specialized test to measure a candidate’s task management skills, work ethic, intelligence, and what it calls the “Big Five” personality traits – openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. A psycho-mouthful for sure, but University of Toronto professor of psychology and Cream.hr co-founder Dr. Jordan Peterson developed the test after researching the effects of personality traits on job performance. His findings are published in several peer-reviewed psychology journals, including Journal of Personality andJournal of Abnormal Psychology.
Cream.hr于将近一年前成立，运用此项服务测量求职者的任务处理能力，职业道德，智力水平和被称为”大五项“的性格测评，其中包括是否率直，有责任感，外向，友善并且情绪稳定。这当然只是一个心理测验，但是它是在多伦多大学的心理学教授、cream.hr的创建者乔丹·彼得森的一系列研究之上建立的。这些研究着重于对于性格特征在职场上的影响，其成果发表于包括《人格期刊》和《变态心理学》在内的一系列著名心理期刊上。
Testing job applicants isn’t a new concept. There are already several personality tests used in the hiring process, but most ask you to answer questions on a Likert scale with a range from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree.” The thing is, most of these tests are designed to scrutinize your morals, not problem-solving skills, and you can easily provide fake answers that make you appear to be a more virtuous person than you really are. No one vying for a job would hurt their chances by agreeing that “It bothers you when you have to obey a lot of rules, ” which is an actual question from the Unicru personality test used by large corporations. If you can’t figure out the right responses for yourself, a quick Google search will give you an answer key to the Unicru and other commonly used tests.
向求职者提供此类测试的并不独此一家。此前已有数个用于职业测评的人格测评，但大多数需要用李克特五分量表法回答，即从”很同意“到”很不同意“等五个等级中选其一。此类传统测试的问题在于它们着重于评价道德情操，不涉及问题解决能力，并且被测试者可以轻易选择一个虚假答案以重新塑造一个理想的自己。几乎不会有人热血到在这种测试上”很同意“诸如”不喜欢遵守太多规则“，毕竟没人能担保这一瞬间的热血不是以一辈子失业为代价。可是这正是Unicru人格测试里的一道题目，该项测试受用于诸多大企业。如果求职者自己不确定要怎么塑造这个完美自我的话，只要一个简单的google搜索，就可以得到包括Unicru在内很多常用测试的标准答案，
It’s not that you can’t fake your answers on the Cream.hr exam; it’s just a lot harder because there are no right or wrong answers. Instead of choosing if you agree or disagree with questions, test takers must rank a set of priorities, and answer the same questions repeatedly to make sure their answers stay the same.
这并不是说cream.hr的测试不存在作假行为，只是在一堆不是是非题的问卷里做假相当考验智商。在这里被测试者不用回答同意或不同意，他们需要做的是把一系列问题按重要性排序，或者隔段时间再回答之前的一个问题以确保所选答案相同。比如在一道题里你可能需要按对你的重要程度将”团队协作能力“和”时刻准备着“等五项内容排序，另一道题会运用到你在这道题的答案，将场景设置在一个团队合作工作或者截止日期临近的项目里，此处设置一些问题来检验是否你真的会言行相同。
On a scale of one to 100, test takers are given an overall “Cream Score, ” and scores for task management, work ethic, and the big five traits. Companies can add the test to their job listing, and use Cream.hr to collect resumes and cover letters as well. Employers then get a dashboard of applicant results, which can be sorted by each type of score. Cream.hr says that point is for employers to narrow down a few candidates based on their test scores to interview, which cuts down on time spent sifting through resumes.
完成测试者将会按照0-100被评分，分数分为总分，任务处理能力评分，职业道德评分和”大五项“评分。用人企业可以选择将此项分数纳入考查范围，同时在cream.hr收集求职者的简历和其他附函，这样可以方便地按照不同分项的分数将求职者按类型规整起来。Cream.hr的管理者形容这项测试的目的在于使企业能够基于测试结果缩减最后进入面试的求职者人数，最终减少浏览简历所造成的时间浪费。
There’s a 25-minute test for entry-level applicants and a 45-minute exam for executive and management jobs. For employers, Cream.hr’s testing service starts at $99 per month for 50 assessments. There’s also the “Full Cream” package for $499 per month, which collects resumes, cover letters, and complete Cream scores for up to 350 applicants. For comparison’s sake, corporate testing company Criteria Corp‘s software license starts at $995 annually for a company with fewer than 25 employees and prices go up into the thousands per year as the company gets bigger. Cream.hr’s beta testers include photo site 500px, game developer Big Viking Games, and space robotics company Honeybee Robotics, all of which have used the service to hire programmers, engineers, project managers, and administrative assistants.
该项测试包括25分钟为初入职者提供的测试和45分钟为管理工作申请人提供的测试。cream.hr对企业的收费标准是99美元每月，其中包括50分测试者评估。另外有499美元每月的全包服务，包括简历及附函的收集和最多350份测试评估。此处与 Criteria Corp 公司的同类软件做一比较，该软件对不超过25雇员的公司每年收费995美元，等到公司壮大之后每年的费用超过千元。Cream.hr现在的用户包括摄影师图片社区500px，游戏开发商Big Viking Games和空间机器人制造公司Honeybee Robotics，这些企业运用cream.hr的服务招聘程序员，工程师，项目经理和执行助理等等。
Cream.hr’s ultimate goal is to get rid of resumes altogether, because they are ill suited to actually measuring someone’s skills, says MacGregor. And that frankly sounds like a wonderful proposition for longtime job hunters and inexperienced college grads alike. But don’t think nailing a test is all it’s going to take to land a plum gig.
Cream.hr最终的目标是消灭简历！（oh yeah!^_^）因为测试的开发者们坚信简历在反应人们的真实水平上表现并不令人满意。这听上去就像是长期求职者和出处校园的菜鸟们的福音。但是显然仅仅凭这一个测试还不能撬动这个简历堆满的地球。Evernote的招聘主管Mindy Cohen很看好cream.hr提供的此项服务，但是也认为这只是寻觅顶尖人才的漫漫长路上的一部分。她说：”它在招聘的初期阶段可以作为相当强大的筛选工具，但是挑选到真正胜任工作的人仍然需要依靠机制完善的面试平台。“
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