Brain scan replaces job interview in 5 years?
Forget about filling out forms or your resume, your brain scan may one day determine your job.
Prof. Verbeke heads the department of neuro-economics, (NSIM), at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He predicts in an interview with Good Morning Netherlands radio station that employers demanding compulsory brain scans from their job applicants will soon become the most normal thing in the world – in fact within five years’ time’, he believes.
Especially after the economic fiascos which are plunging the world into recession, a great deal of interest is being shown by the economic sector in their neuro-testing job application scheme, which is now being developed and tested, he said. Neuro-economics is a new research field, combining economics, psychology, genetics and neuro-science.
One of the most important developments in this field are the use of EEGs and MRI-scans to determine the suitability of candidates for specific jobs, he said. It’s been known for the past thirty years that one can determine human psychological disabilities such as autism and psychopathic tendencies in brain-scans, he said. However exact guidelines are only now being developed for practical applications in industry and the economic field by his department.
While brain-scanning their volunteers, the Erasmus University researchers can identify exactly to which extent people react ’spontaneously’, i.e. subconsciously, to specific social interactions – such as financial trading on the stock market or shop personnel interacting with customers.
Thus they could also test job applicants for important posts such as bank directors and financial institutions to determine whether they are even suitable — or whether they have psychopathic tendencies which would exclude them from such jobs.
Via nextnature.net.
“Forget about filling out forms or your resume”
@Spiraltwist Ahhh, you’re falling into a common trap there of approaching the future as someone who wants to use technology to streamline things.
While I would dearly love to never have to fill in another form again, I suspect this is not the technology that will achieve that. What I expect is that you’ll still have to fill in all the old forms, and take the brain-scan, *and* fill in another form to say you consent to the brain-scan.
You’re underestimating the pedantic nature of HR departments. They’re populated by people who *like* forms.
I think using EEG scans would give prospective employers a potentially false sense of security in their interview process. I’ve been using two EEG computer interfaces (openEEG and the OCZ NIA) for over a year now, and I’ve become pretty good and controlling my response (that is the point of learning a new interface, after all).
I would guess that I’d be reasonably good at giving them the readings they want to see, simply because I’ve learned how to focus myself in the context of controlling an EEG output.
@Seej 500
You’re underestimating the pedantic nature of HR departments. They’re populated by people who *like* forms.
They should be robots. ROBOTS. Properly programed robots.
@Lepton
There are the always ways around things – I’m glad someone is working on it already.