Comments on: Brain scan replaces job interview in 5 years?

By: Spiraltwist

Spiraltwist — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:09:06 +0000

@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.

By: Lepton

Lepton — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:26:09 +0000

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.

By: Seej 500

Seej 500 — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:15:17 +0000

“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.