This is CRAZY. Unilever stopped reading your resum

This is CRAZY.

Unilever stopped reading your resume years ago.

Instead, they make you play video games and it's working better than anything they've ever tried.

They put 250,000 job applicants through 12 neuroscience based games before a single human ever looks at their application.

The games were built by Pymetrics, a company founded by neuroscientists from Harvard and MIT. Harver acquired them in 2022.

The games don't test what you know.

They measure how your brain actually works, how you handle risk, how fast you adapt, how you decide under pressure.

It cut their hiring time from four months to four weeks and it saved over 50,000 hours of recruiter time.

JPMorgan, BCG, Accenture, Mastercard, and McDonald's all use the same platform.

Now here is where it gets serious and there is hard science backing all of this.

Researchers at three European universities, Liechtenstein, Rotterdam, and Münster ran 40 business students through Sid Meier's Civilization, then put them through a Fortune 500-style management assessment.

Students who scored highest in the game also ranked highest in problem-solving, organization, and planning, according to a 2020 study published in the Review of Managerial Science.

In 2013, scientists at Queen Mary University of London ran 72 volunteers through 40 hours of StarCraft.

The StarCraft group showed a massive improvement in cognitive flexibility, your brain's ability to switch between tasks and think on the fly compared to a group that played The Sims.

The statistical evidence was 40 times stronger than what chance would predict.

SimCity has been used in university urban planning courses since as far back as the early 1990s, when professors began assigning it to teach systems thinking.

Now step back and look at what this all means.

Your resume tells an employer what you have done while a video game tells them how your brain actually operates.

One is a highlight reel, the other is a live test.

The gamification industry is now valued at over $43 billion globally and is projected to reach $172 billion by 2030.

This market did not get that large by accident.

Companies figured out that traditional hiring was broken.

Cover letters measure writing skills, interviews measure charm and neither one measures whether someone can actually think.

Games measure thinking and that is why corporations are quietly replacing the old system not with interviews, not with degrees but with joysticks.

The Civilization study only had 40 students and that matters.

But it was one piece of a much larger pattern across multiple games, multiple labs, and multiple decades of research pointing in the same direction.

The resume is not dead yet but its days are numbered.

Source: StockMarket.News