Firms such as Deloitte hope to hire people using smartphone apps – but can they produce accurate results?Job interviews have traditionally been painful affairs,with applicants sitting, sweaty-palmed, or in some anteroom wondering whether or not to accept a biscuit. But nowadays’s job applicants may well find themselves facing not an intimidating interview panel but a computer-based “psychometric” test.
And anyone after a job with accountant Deloitte had better start honing their skills on wrathful Birds,because the company’s latest recruiting tool is a mobile phone game. Called Firefly Freedom, it is set in a fictional forested world in which players must catch fireflies to supply light for their family during the winter.
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Source: theguardian.com