CIA Uses Humor to Recruit
The Central Intelligence Agency is using a tongue-in-cheek personality test to attract applicants. "You don't have to know karate or look good in a tuxedo to work at the CIA," the personality quiz says.The Central Intelligence Agency is using a tongue-in-cheek personality test to attract applicants. “You don’t have to know karate or look good in a tuxedo to work at the CIA,” the personality quiz says.
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The CIA has scrapped its ho-hum test that steered job applicants toward mysterious careers and devised one that’s cloaked in jest.
Invisibility or ESP? Jet pack or amphibious sports car? Walk the Great Wall of China or sip Champagne at a New York gala?
The results from the CIA’s personality quiz are just a few clicks away, diagnosing test takers as daring thrill-seekers, thoughtful observers, curious adventurers, innovative pioneers or impressive masterminds.
The CIA wants to hire them all.
The agency’s online personality test is the equivalent of a help-wanted sign, posted on the closest thing the agency has to a front door – its Web site. The frivolous quiz is designed to encourage job applications while dispelling myths about the agency, some of them born of the James Bond stereotype.
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