The Resume Is Dead. Here's What Innovative Companies (Including Tesla) Are Using to Hire Instead (Inc.)
A study was done that found that previous work experience is actually one of the weakest indicators of future job success. So why do we still rely on it as the primary tool when it comes to hiring?
Hiring based on experience makes no sense.
What does make sense is aggressively innovating on hiring practices, and that's what a number of companies are doing, including Tesla, Accenture, LinkedIn, and more. Those companies are tossing out résumé s wholesale, and instead relying on neuroscience-based A.I.-powered technology to determine whether a candidate is a fit and how likely they are to succeed.
In the case of Tesla, Accenture, and LinkedIn, they do this by working with Pymetrics, a company that has distilled what used to be a four-hour, academic process of evaluating a person's cognitive and emotional capabilities into a 30-minute game-playing scenario.
Basically, candidates complete brain tasks (like puzzles or quizzes), the results of which A.I. parses to come up with measurements of things like the person's problem-solving skills, ability to multitask, an...
