A recruitment game that eliminates the need to conduct an interview, which merits?

ByJose M Martin Jimenez

An interview where you actually meet and interact directly with the personnel manager in the company is tense or stressful to applicants, but according to the New Scientist of the British scientific journal, we measure the ability by interview Instead, there is a movement to let the player play the game and decide the hiring, there is a possibility to change the interview system of the future to different.

Video games beat interviews to recruit the very best - tech - 19 March 2015 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530132.400-video-games-beat-interviews-to-recruit-the-very-best.html

Kalzumeus SoftwareAn American software company that says, on 9th March 2015StarfighterWe launched a company called. Starfighter is a game development company, but the difference from general game companies is that the game to develop is for recruitment. Starfighter already developed "Microcorruption"When a recruiter wants to play and gets a high score, the company notifies the company and decides whether or not to accept the notice by the notified company.

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Regarding the content of the game you care about, Starrighter CEO Patrick McKenzie said, "For example, there is a mode where players become spies and use technologies to acquire confidential information of enemies, details will not be revealed In order to clear, we need a capability like hacking in the real world. " However, since Microcorruption is designed for programmer recruitment, we can not measure non-programming abilities.

The planned release date of Microcorruption is unknown, but the price is free. It is said that it is finished in a game of high difficulty in which a high programming skill is demanded, and it seems that there is a possibility that a notice of adoption may come from a prominent IT company if entering the top 5 of the ranking. If you decide to hire just by playing the game, it will lead to cost reduction as a company, and there is a possibility that you can get a job just by playing a game as a candidate for recruitment.

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Also, New Scientist says "If the game intercepts the interview, it may be possible to eliminate discrimination that is likely to occur at the interview." In an interview where a person is in face-to-face relationship with a personnel officer, candidates for recruitment may be subject to racial discrimination or sex discrimination, and if adopted is determined only by the score of the game, it is not subject to such discrimination.

Not only Starfighter is developing games for recruitment.KnackCompanies have released smartphone games that can measure abilities that are indispensable for excellent talent such as leadership skills, problem solving skills, and planning ability. In Knack's game, the user's play record is managed with data, and the company that saw the data applies for recruitment to the player.

Knack has recognized the excellence of its management system, and is a technical employment support program operated by the American White House "TechHire InitiativeIt is decided to provide data to.


The move to judge recruitment in game play without interview is just beginning in the US and I do not know if it will work or not, but if it succeeds in the US, a company to introduce as a recruitment method in Japan can appear You can think enough about sex