Anxious about walmart employment test.

just be honest.
If you always go strongly, you're overzealous. If you always go in the middle, you have no emotion.

Actually, go for the latter

I doubt that anyone can help you with that if you won't tell us what exactly the questions say.

I never worked in a store like a Walmart, but I'm sure they are looking for people with good team spirit and someone with a decent level of diplomacy and patience when interacting with the customers. If you don't have these qualities, you probably won't enjoy your experience working there.

Just don't forget who you are, and answer with honesty. If you think you are reacting too hard on a question and are not sure it's right, take a deep breath and think about it from a boss and also from a client perspective, than imagine the situation. If you are afraid to answer 1 or 5, just vote 2 or 4 as often as required.

Hope it helps!

Poor soul ... i hope you dont start hating the whole human race ( like i did ) after a year working retail .

As for your test ... just be honest i guess :)

Lol. This is really not one of those things to worry about. The test is designed to make sure you're a team player and not a strong, independent thinker. They also ask you the same questions multiple times to deflate any intentions you may be trying to portray.

About the strong or middle answers... Just do it as you like. There are basicly different types of people. Some people always put in their strong opinion and others tend to lean more to the middle. If you ask around friends you probably will see the same :)

You will do it^^

My retarded cousin got a job at Walmart. You'll be fine. Don't overthink it. Don't think at all, apparently.

walmart is an easy job to get, just tell hem you know basic math, and that you promise not to make fun of how customers dress, and you basically get the job instantly.

just think about what a manager would want to hear and mark it accordingly being truthful as possible.

There's nothing wrong with answering with "strongly agree" or "strongly disagree". You basically answer what you think the company would want to hear (as long as you don't strongly disagree with it). Place yourself in their shoes: what would you think if someone answered that way for a position in your company?

Just answer honestly. This is a personality test to work an entry-level job with the biggest private employer in the world. A private employer primarily concerned with basic, unremarkable competence and an aversion to creating loss through incompetence (or malice--if not for moral reasons--because fear of consequences). Along with a marginal ability to appear pleasant and content to be at work in the store the vast majority of the time. Just like in every other entry level job.

The only people who need to "cheat" on tests assessing personality or psychoemotional state are sociopaths and even they generally know not to be too "even" or falsely earnest such that insincerity is telegraphed.

These tests are meant to ensure you're not a weirdo, criminal, or too dumb to employ. Are you competent, and generally in good mental health? Then you do not need to prepare for securing an entry-level position at Walmart.

Edit: I should be clear. The only way to fuck up this test is if you don't even know whether you should agree or disagree on very basic things. Even if you tried to do "really well" and strongly agree or disagree with the appropriate answers, this doesn't matter much.

My second paragraph really only applies to much more complex tests for much more sensitive positions. Like ones where you carry a whistle on your hip. And by whistle, I mean season 3 of "The Wire".

First bit of advice, you should probably apply to pier 1 or Target. I've heard nothing but bad things about walmart. Pier 1's tend to be fairly nice places to work (provided you're good with people... you're kindof expected to be all buddy buddy with customers.). Target's are pretty good if you have a more open schedule, you could work on the inventory flow shifts (very early in the morning, putting out stock from trucks) if you hate human to human interaction. There's probably a few other retail jobs you could shoot for that are fairly good as well. A good rule of thumb is how friendly the workers seem when you bump into one.

There's ofcourse, always going to be the people who just hate work of any sort and it doesn't matter what the job is, it's "work" so "it sucks". As far as answering the personality things, just be honest. If you try and lie your way into it it'll just backfire on you. Also, I don't know about walmart specifically, but most places don't actually care that much about those questionnaires, they're more of a first stage thing to weed out the crazies and the thieves (though I doubt a decent thief would actually answer that "yes, I would totally steal things")

No need to lie on these things. If you want the job and think you'd be good at it based on the job requirements, I'm sure the psychometric assessment will bear it out. Anyway, unless you're applying for a senior management role, I don't think they're really going to weight this test heavily ... unless the results show that you're a psychopath.

As I wrote some very similar tests for various academic research and answered a whole bunch of them for other people's research I can tell you that they're basically designed to catch liars. Like doctorofjournalism said they're gonna give you several same questions phrased differently and will be looking for discrepancies in your answers. Answering the first question "strongly agree" and then the second, which is the first one rephrased, "strongly disagree" will raise a flag.
Just be honest, it's really the best way as you won't have to think really hard and keep searching for the "same" questions to make sure you gave the same answer. Don't worry about going up or down one point (from strongly agree to just agree or strongly disagree to disagree) every now and then on those "same questions" as it's normal for your mood and concentration to shift during the time you're taking the test, and you might change your view depending on how the question is phrased. Just, don't do it too much as it shows you really don't have an opinion and just doing it because you're forced to take the test.
Relax and just fill it in. Naturally, don't say "I love to steal and murder people" or something like that, go with what they'd like to hear as long as it's something that's obvious. :)

YO - don't listen to people telling you to be honest (no offense to those people who said it) I've worked in retail in mgmt, and they want you to tell them what you think they want to hear. If any question comes up where you think it's stupid from your perspective, but makes sense from the corporations point of view, go with the corporation's point of view when in doubt. Think like you're Walmart- BE Walmart.