Some companies measure motivational drivers with questionnaires?
Randomly, with a touch of racism. Let me explain the sort of conversation I have with people punting this sort of thing. I let them talk for a while and share that although Im a headhunter, I have a Maths/CompSci degree and express that Im curious about some of their maths, since I am immune to fake algebra and actually have done linear algebra, a lot, too much. The smart ones, smile and give up at this point realising the game is up.\ The less smart ones defer to authority citing some scientist who is either not an expert in anything much, or who would be horrified to be associated with this Gwyneth Paltrow level mumbo jumbo. If Im feeling cruel, I become politically correct, which Im not but since the whole point of PC is to wind people up I embrace it like Buddhist Monk who follows the path of peace but learns how to kill with minimal effort. This junk science works on what might if Im really charitable might call correlation at which I must apologise to all my maths teachers for even implying that it is any form of statistics. correlate with what ? I ask innocently. The response is always something of the form leading people in this field, to which of course there is but one response. You mean older white heterosexual men ? Because of course in very nearly every field, we white cis het people who currently identify as male lead, including of course headhunting ;) The point of hiring anyone more useful than a grievance studies graduate is not just to add volume to the workforce, but to bring in skills, insight and experience that is not the same as everyone else. So this dross is the sign of a firm that has lost the plot and because its hiring has gone bad in the past has been conned by snake oil salesmen. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Half the people reading this are somewhere between the media and the bottom in their line of work, because thats a how stats work. So randomness works in your favour. However it is not all the way good. most of what you learn after formal education is from people you work with, if theyve been hired randomly, your ability to move up from the bottom 50%, or even if youre good, getting better will be harder.