Typing tests did not go away with the typewriter. These are the places they still decide who gets the job, and what each of them actually expects.
Typing tests did not disappear with the typewriter. In several countries they are still a formal, scored stage of hiring for government and clerical work - and the bar varies more than most people expect.
· 9 min read
For millions of candidates, the typing test is the last stage between them and a government post - and the one they are least likely to have prepared for properly.
· 8 min read
There is no national typing standard in the United States. There are, instead, a number of occupations where the test is entirely routine and the bar is set by the employer or a professional body.
· 7 min read
In the UK the typing test is less an examination than a screening step - which makes it easier to sit and just as easy to fail.
· 6 min read
The Philippines runs one of the largest customer service industries in the world, and a typing test is a standard part of getting into it.
· 6 min read
In Canada and Australia the typing requirement is real but decentralised: it lives in the individual job advertisement, not in a national rulebook.
· 5 min read