Feeling down...failed pre-hire assessment test

[Bunny2332]

Well, I guess by reading the title of this thread, you can pretty much figure out what I am about to say. Anyway, I recently took my NCLEX..and passed! As you can imagine, I was super excited about being done with school, passing the hardest test ever, and beginning a new life doing my dream job in nursing! I spend hours and hours filling out applications to local hospitals (there's a ton in my area) and I was feeling very confident about getting a job. However, the confidence and excitement didn't last very long.....because after all those hours of work and dreaming of filling the position, I failed the personality test Needless to say, I feel AWFUL about myself. I feel like such a failure. How could I make it through such a difficult bachelor's in nursing program AND pass my NCLEX on the first try and still, these places won't even take a LOOK at my application because apparently I didn't score high enough on the personality test? I have such an open, friendly personality and I have a great track record and references, etc, but somehow I'm not even worth a look at my application?

Has anyone else experienced this? Please, any words of advice/encouragement are greatly appreciated. I really don't know what to do. I feel like I answered the questions honestly and I have no idea what I did wrong or what exactly they are looking for. I feel like I could be such an amazing nurse, but no one will even give me the chance. I'm just so hurt.

[netglow, ASN, RN]

Those tests are a joke. IF you search AN you will find threads regarding them.