Maruti conducts psychometric tests for 1,100 job aspirants
Repeated instances of labour unrest at the Manesar plant — including a lock-out on July 21, 2012 following violence by workers — has prompted the car manufacturer to explore new avenues to hire the necessary workforce to run the assembly line at its factories in the National Capital Region.
“We are evaluating the candidates on three parameters...
This includes technical knowledge, psychometric tests and demographic tests,” said a MSL official.
A five-member MSL team, with the help of state government officials, conducted these tests at Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Kubernagar in Ahmedabad.
Though officials refused to divulge details of the pre-hiring assessment, the two-hour long tests saw candidates holding ITI certificates being asked over 150 questions. Most of these questions were part of psychometric tests that quizzed the candidates in the age group of 18-26 years on personality traits (like aggression, style or manner of doing things), reasoning, motivation and ability assessment (like ability to co-operate and work in sync with colleagues).
Officials said that after the 2012 violence, which led to the death of a senior manager, the company is very careful about the profile of employees being hired for both junior and senior positions.
“This is the first time Maruti Suzuki is hiring in such large numbers from Gujarat. This is
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