Fit For Hiring? It's Mind Over Matt

Fit For Hiring? It's Mind Over Matter
New York - Members of America's professional and managerial classes have always left college confident of at least one thing: they had taken their last test. From here on, they could rely on charm, cunning and/or a record of accomplishment to propel them up the corporate ladder.
But that's not necessarily any longer. A growing number of companies, from General Motors Corp to American Express Co., are no longer satisfied wit traditional job interviews. Instead, they are requiring applicants for many white-collar jobs - from top executives down - to submit to a series of paper-and-pencil tests, role-playing exercises, simulated decision-making exercises and brainteasers. Other put candidates through a long series of interviews by psychologists or trained interviewers.