I recently applied to a position with Eli Lilly. After submitting my resume, I had to fill out a pre-employment questionnaire that was supposed to take up to 45 minutes to complete. Some of it was about my work and educational background, some of it was about how comfortable I was talking to people, how I solve problems, etc, and several of the questions were about high school, my high school gpa, how I paid for college, did I work in college, and how old I was when I had my first job. I've never encountered a questionnaire like this before with any other company. Is this a new thing?
If you stretch out the Lilly logo that is the red tape you will go through with everything in this company from hiring, every ounce of work you do, until they fire you. I was there for 18 years, and the first 9 were pretty great. After about 2007, it started going down the crapper. It's a ship with a slow leak. If you don't want to lose all your self-esteem and have to seek therapy for work associated PTSD, then turn and run in the other direction.
if you didn’t tell them you were AA, Mexican, Indian, you will not get hired... We need diversity and white Guy’s are not diverse.
Current rep here. Not that I’ve ever heard of. When we expanded last year with the Empa team, I referred 5 people to lilly. One of the five passed the test and he was the one I almost didn’t refer. Weird test. Have no idea what it proves.
Was told today... you must pass to move along in interview process. If you do not pass you must wait 6 months to reapply.
It proves consistency. If you are a dumba**, then be one throughout. Ask your HR friend, is there a correlation between the survey and performance ? Do we even look? Welcome
I have over 10 yrs combined pharma experience. I took that “test” and was told I didn’t qualify for a sales position. Really?!?!
Just because you endured something for 10 years, does not mean you learned anything from it. I'm glad they are weeding out the incompetents quickly. Years of experience is not a direct indicator of your abilities. Lilly sets the bar higher than most.
I applied for one if these inventiv direct hire positions a few weeks ago I passed the assessment but I haven't been contacted. anyone have any idea what the status is on these positions?
The test is ridiculous and uses a method to predict success in the job, but specific to what Lilly views as successful. It's a modified Personality Inventory Questionnaire. Every few years it is redesigned in the following way: -Lilly takes the "Top Performers" in a variety of roles across the company including Sales, Marketing, Operations, HR, Compliance, etc. Unbeknown to them they are accessed across their background and behaviors. This is considered the "baseline" or "what good looks like". How those "High Performers" score becomes what a new applicant is compared to. In this way Lilly believes they are looking for behaviors that reflect their most successful people basically predicting how successful you would be if hired. It seems logical, but it isn't if not done correctly which is where Lilly goes wrong. It's a tragically flawed system, but with the volume of applicants received, it's an easy tool to screen people out without talking to them and still think you'll get a great candidate even if not the "best" candidate. Where the system is flawed is Lilly's entire process of differentiating Top Performers when it comes to behaviors is archaic at best. There are so many variables when it comes to performance which can lead to leadership or lack of leadership opportunities, etc. Thus, the people being used to "set the baseline" are often times what success looked like in the past, but not what gets the job done now. And to firmly answer your question. If you do not pass the Personality Inventory, forget anybody ever getting hired, you only get an automatic email that you've been passed on.
