I sat for a psychometric test that we are supposed to get a high score on. This is the very first stage, more like a screening test. Most of the questions were related to percentages, pattern recognition, sales-profit, and work-hour aptitude questions. What does a writer has to do with such stuff, is beyond me. They say that it is an effective way to see if the person is competent, I call it non-sense. If you were to hire a painter or a graphic design artist, will you ask him/her sales percentages aptitude questions or see their portfolio and work experience? Even the language related questions that were present were totally unrelated to Tech Writing. As Tech writers we avoid flowery language and do not use unnecessarily complex words, but in the test they threw in questions where one had to identify similar and opposite meaning words for words you would ideally never use (unless very unfortunate) or even have heard of. I have been in the industry for 10+ years as a writer and have worked with three fortune 250 companies, and can definitely say that this is not the right approach. Surely, whoever is creating these assignments for Tech Writers has little to no idea what we do and what our work is like.