{"id":2362,"date":"2010-07-01T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/07\/what-color-is-the-sky-in-your-world\/"},"modified":"2010-06-30T15:52:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T20:52:36","slug":"what-color-is-the-sky-in-your-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/07\/what-color-is-the-sky-in-your-world\/","title":{"rendered":"What Color Is The Sky In Your World?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember that great line from Frasier Crane on Cheers?\u00a0 It is getting close to a holiday weekend so my mind is starting to drift a bit \u2013 my apologies.\u00a0 I did come across this rather entertaining test from the msn.com\/CareerBuilder website – Let Your Favorite Color Guide Your Career.\u00a0 Take the test by selecting your favorite color from the top row and your favorite from the bottom row.\u00a0 Scroll down and you will get your results. I was blue-purple (can you tell from the website colors?). All these years of selling assessments\u2026maybe we overlooked something simple here. Ok, maybe not.\u00a0 Still, you have to admit it was interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[1316,1752,1599,1598,954,97],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessing","tag-assess","tag-assessing","tag-color-assessment","tag-employee-assessment","tag-hiring-assessment","tag-select-metrix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-C6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2309,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/04\/big-personalities-in-selling\/","url_meta":{"origin":2362,"position":0},"title":"Big Personalities In Selling","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"We\u2019re an assessment company so you can imagine how adamant I am about assessing candidates (not just for sales positions either).\u00a0 However, in sales it is crucial to use assessments to cut through the sales candidates\u2019 well-developed social skills.\u00a0 Unfortunately, many assessment tools focus on personality only which is not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Assessing"","block_context":{"text":"Assessing","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/assessing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1943,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/spooky-accurate-assessments\/","url_meta":{"origin":2362,"position":1},"title":"Spooky Accurate Assessments","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"From Inc.com\u2019s article on how to screen sales candidates: It cost $400 a candidate, and the recruits took the tests online. 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