For Employers, Video Game Scores Might Soon Replace Resumes

Your side by side employer might hire you if it finds out you're good at playing video games. It'south not looking for FIFA 17 or Call of Duty aces, but rather those who can master mind games developed specifically for recruiters and man resources by a startup called Scoutible.

Scoutible 1 Of course, these aren't irksome crosswords or shape matching puzzles. Scoutible'southward games accept visual entreatment, with graphics that look similar they belong in a mobile game you'd pay at least US$4.99 for on the App Store.

At a recent offset-up contest in San Francisco, where Antony took dwelling house Us$50,000 in seed money, some of these games have been made available for all to try. They are challenging at the very least and even a footling flake fun.

"Our games' storylines are designed to dribble meaningful traits from players' in-game behaviors," Antony said.

There's 1 chosen King's Quest that's intended to measure out emotional intelligence and assertiveness. Another, chosen Lava Cavern, is vaguely reminiscent of the Bowser'southward Castle class in Mario Kart. It tin measure memory capacity, blueprint recognition, and risk tolerance (in this case, tolerance of the take a chance that you might fall into a burning pit of lava).

The same samples that Scoutible had on display won't show upward in your next hiring test, though, considering the company tweaks them for each of its clients.

Offset, it asks a company to make up one's mind which of its employees are the top performers. It then has those employees play games that tease out their 'soft skills' after simply 20 minutes, co-ordinate to Antony. After playing, each employee gets a cognitive profile, and Scoutible tin place which traits distinguish those who practise all-time at playing the game.

"We tin can then identify the talent who's most likely to perform" how company wants them to, Antony said. In Beta Tests, she said that Scoutible's algorithms accept been able to guess a candidate's social engagement, measured by number of Facebook friends, inside 10%, and a freelancer'southward job satisfaction, a statistic measured against online customer reviews, within 1%.

But what if the type of person a company really wants to hire is horrible at playing video games? No problem, Antony said. Scoutible just adjusts them to make it really like shooting fish in a barrel, even for a person who's never played any smartphone games at all.