Psychological tests are quite frequently used in selecting personnel for companies. This article seeks to compare such instruments with the worker's fundamental rights in mind. Whenever a candidate for a job is subjected to a test, be that to measure his or her aptitude or to verify certain personality traits, over that instrument is incurred the knowledge of a science that legitimizes the employer's power to test the candidate. The job crisis generated from globalization and the hegemony of the neo-liberal capitalistic system, takes advantage of the ever-growing subjection of the worker. There are no laws in Brazil that protect a candidate from the "leak" of information about his or her personality. And, in some cases, these factors, which can cause one to not be hired, could be considered discriminatory. Such abusive personnel selection techniques and tests, which are not very trustworthy, increase the possibility of unnecessary disclosure and, consequently, a violation of privacy, private life and the disrespect of the constitutional principle of human dignity.
tests; selection; human dignity; private life; privacy