So you are looking for someone to fill a job vacancy. What you really want is someone "left-brain" oriented: logical, focused on details, reality based and not inclined to take risks.
What you need is some sort of test to weed out all those touchy-feely creative thinkers – something to get rid of the "right-brain" thinkers.
Something like this, perhaps. Look at the dancer. Is she revolving clockwise or anti-clockwise?
Apparently, if you think she's turning anti-clockwise, you are a logical left-brain thinker; if she's turning clockwise, your strengths are imagination and seeing the big picture.
Thanks to an article on the Australian Herald-Sun news website, the blogosphere has gradually been filling up with versions of this test over the past couple of weeks. It sounds like just the sort of thing that could be useful to recruiters. But is it really?
Not only is there no real evidence that being "left-brain" or "right-brain" dominant is going to affect the way you perceive the dancer moving (and if you try hard you can reverse the direction), there are also some pretty compelling arguments against the whole concept that some people are "left-" and some "right-brain" thinkers.
Oh well, recruiters will just have to go back to the old Rorschach inkblot tests, graphology and trial by combat.
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