Forced skill IQ measurement so management can decide what jobs you can do. And maybe to decide who to layoff?
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I amcurious to see if a psg 19 ng scores at expert level while a principle engineer at psg 25 scores at beginner then what will happen?
It is just a terrible recycle of the old Pathways and CATS assessments of yesteryear. Those were both nonsense that went nowhere because nobody took them seriously, especially over worked supervisors.
The milgram experiment would be a far more effective way to judge who can succeed and thrive at chevron.
I’m not going to take this test. They already think I’m stupid, why give them any confirmation?
They go through this exercise of trying to define workforce skills every few years but nothing comes of it. Mostly because it is not comprehensive. Kids just out of school get listed as having high experience level, which leads management to think all people with the same job title are equally qualified. We need a system of skilled mentors across BUs and actual planned competency area training, but neither management nor HR has that king of vision. Expect nothing from this exercise beyond some extra make work jobs for HR and returning expats otherwise without home employment.
About six or seven years ago, they sprung and IQ test on everyone. They claimed it wasn't going to be used against you. I don't believe anything management says which includes HR. In all my years, HR has never tried to be an asset for me.
No, the technical talent can stay, but yes, they do want you to leave.
yea dis isnt fare muh IQ is bout 200 an i got a 42 wit da test
Are the skill iq tests through pluralsight or something?
I was forced to took Skill IQ test. My real IQ is like 150, but the d-mba$$ test cones back at 95 and know I am worried. This is unfare descrimination. Going to be suing.
10 years ago there were "heat maps" to "monitor" an employee's capabilities, geared to identify training opportunities. Trouble was, either the employee or the manager grossly overexaggerated their skills, so the exercise became useless.
If this does indeed come to fruition, expect there to be newly created "competency advisors" (from the large pool of failed high-pots and returning expats), supplemented with external "competency experts" (most of whom have never worked in the oil industry, or are too young to actually have any experience, or bring to the table useless psychology or business degrees).
What to watch out for: 1) Only "select" employees or functions are forced to test, particularly if high-pots are "exempted". 2) The testing, and the resultant scores, are kept private, under the smokescreen of "privacy laws". 3) More draconian, the employee is not given access to their scores.
Based on specific skills they will outsource to MSP. Tell software engineer how to grow skills. You think we don’t know the trends?
Is this a real thing? I havent heard of it yet.
The fact that not everyone is taking the tests but only taking them when their supervisor asks them to makes these tests a tool to downgrade employees the supervisor doesn’t like.