This Big Bank Is Literally Going to Read Your Mind Before Deciding to Hire You
This Big Bank Is Literally Going to Read Your Mind Before Deciding to Hire You
Joseph Hincks
Updated: Dec 16, 2016 1:12 AM Eastern
Sharp suit? Winning smile? Graduated from a prestigious school? It still might not be enough to score a job at a top bank if your neural waves look suspicious.
Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBSPF, 0.00%) has added an esoteric strand to its hiring process at careers fairs and university campuses, Bloomberg reported Thursday: mind reading.
Prospective jobseekers are (presumably willingly) stuck with scanners and then played a series of videos and images. A readout based on students' cerebral responses gives them a description of their personality type and suggests an area of the bank's operations that might be a good fit.
Patrick Eltridge, RBS ?Chief Information Officer, told Bloomberg, that the use of “gamification and online simulation" both gave the bank a new tool for evaluating applicants and also provided graduates with valuable feedback...
