The following is usually called Dr. Phil’s Test, after Dr. Phil McGraw tested Oprah Winfrey with it. It’s a 2 minute test that HR departments can use to quickly estimate your personality. Curious to know how you’ll score?

10 Simple questions

As you do the test, choose the best answer and note your letter choice for each question.

Ready?

Go.

1. When do you feel your best?

a) in the morning

b) during the afternoon and early evening

c) late at night

2. You usually walk…

a) fairly fast, with long steps

b) fairly fast, with little steps

c) less fast, head up, looking the world in the face

d) less fast, head down

e) very slowly

3. When talking to people, you…

a) stand with your arms folded

b) have your hands clasped

c) have one or both your hands on your hips

d) touch or push the person to whom you are talking

e) play with your ear, touch your chin, or smooth your hair

--Jacob Share

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On Tuesday June 5th, Google had an officewarming party to unveil its new offices on the 26th floor of the Levinstein Tower in downtown Tel Aviv. Google has job openings there and that’s where you come in.

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The Dream Job. The one that you never want to end. The one that you would love. The one that you’ve never had and may never have. Until now.

In Theory

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for doing it

Flashback. When I was a teenager growing up in Montreal, I loved baseball. A friend and I would try to see as many games as possible each summer, and every time we went to the stadium to watch our favorite team (the now-defunct Expos), we would rave about what work must be like as a batboy, the next best thing to actually being a player.

Being a batboy was our dream job at that time, a job we would have done for free paid to do. The fact is that we saw only one facet of that job – the batboy helping the players during the game – and that if we’d known his entire job description including all the time he spends cleaning, polishing and shining, we would have set our hearts elsewhere.

--Jacob Share

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