What does a test say about the mind? Personality tests as discursive objects in recruitment interviews
Discourse Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Text and Talk
Published online on September 02, 2025
Abstract
Discourse Studies, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 177-194, April 2026.
In this article, we examine how recruiters and applicants talk about personality tests, reflecting presuppositions about personality and its accessibility. Using video-recorded data from 21 Finnish job interviews, we show how the personality test ...
In this article, we examine how recruiters and applicants talk about personality tests, reflecting presuppositions about personality and its accessibility. Using video-recorded data from 21 Finnish job interviews, we show how the personality test ...