Adaptability, the ability to lead, persuade, adapt and make choices quickly… These video games show beneficial qualities in business. So some take the lead and recruit through these means complementary to a resume, cover letter, and job interview. Explained with Brice Nguesan, Managing Editor Video Games Magazine.
franceinfo: So a French startup decided to use video games as a recruiting tool?
Bryce Njessan: The name of this company Scilioto Skill It means “competence” in English. Hugo Chaprotti, the company’s co-founder, has always been a video game enthusiast. He has worked in HR and now wants to provide companies with idle and modern recruitment solutions.
The video game is found because it occupies a place of choice among the French. Half of the population gambles regularly. Therefore, Hugo Chaproti lamented that the skills that can be developed through playing are not evaluated during the job interview. So he developed this Skilleo platform.
How does it actually work?
You connect to this platform using your account on LinkedIn, the professional social network. Thus, the employer can consult the CV directly. But this biography contains only what Scilio Contact them hard skillsTechnical skills you may have acquired in school or in training.
The video game will make it possible to complete this by helping to understand more complex skills to assess, because they directly affect our personality: autonomy, adaptation or even leadership. The video game favors the spontaneity of candidates that disappears completely with classic surveys.
Scilio It works with accessible video games such as racing games or games of thinking and skill that do not last more than 10 minutes. We absolutely do not look at performance. Win or lose it doesn’t matter. On the other hand, we examine the gameplay: are you looking to improve yourself, are you curious to understand the mechanics or even teamwork. All this data will be aggregated to highlight the famous soft skills of the candidate.
Has this evaluation protocol been worked out with both video game studios and professionals?
yes, Scilio I worked on this methodology using the experimental protocols he developed Center for Research in Cognition and Learning in Poitiers. In addition, they also work with video game studios to determine which soft-kills can be shown in video games.
