Your Next Job Application Could Involve a Video Game
Brynjolfsson is advising one start-up that hopes to revolutionize what might be called the human-capital-allocation market. The company, Knack, uses video games as a screening device to determine how creative, cautious, adept at multitasking or easily distracted, among other attributes, potential job applicants are. Its “Wasabi Waiter” game, for example, casts the player as a server at a sushi restaurant who must figure out what dishes to recommend.
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