Game-based Assessments for Hiring — What You Need to Know

Mar 1, 2019

This article is part of a series called Podcasts.

Are game-based assessments the future of employment testing? In the podcast below, I talk about that question with Ben Hawkes. He’s an I/O psychologist, co-founder of BlackHawke Behavior Science, and selection assessment lead for Shell International.

This episode touches on:

Whether gamified assessments are true games
Where the risk lies. Making sure you are not buying game-assessments for the sizzle — because the steak may taste like crap
“Non-contextualized” games, which have a simulated environment such as outer space or under the ocean
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