I have been today, for the nth time, to the local job center and I started to chat with one of the employees about how to find the job to suit your needs. She was astounded by my lack of faith in all the different career aptitude tests and personality decoder gimmicks and insisted that I should take one the soonest possible, then proceeded to tell me how those government tests worked. Honestly, the only thing that struck me was the length: two sessions of about two hours of question answering!
I took a similar lengthy test when I was ending high school - an hour an a half filling questionnaires to learn that I should become (with a 85% match)... a religious leader!
That either makes you believe or sends you in the world of personality tests atheists! To be fair, other options (all less then a 75% match) included librarian, teacher and photograph, and they were nice to ponder upon.
So, I'm waiting for a call from the center to schedule an appointment for their test, but I wanted to know what y'all think about those things, and those free tests available on the net too.