Soft Signals (👉The Future of Hiring)
Hiring high quality, high potential future talent is one of the most crucial jobs of any business.
But with remote work and social distancing becoming the new business normal, identifying and hiring high quality talent is harder than ever before.
So-called hard signals, such as education credentials and past work experience, are largely ineffective signals of quality and potential (but are pretty good correlates of wealthy zip codes!). Not only that, but when it comes to entry-level and junior hires, you have few if any hard signals to go by in any case. Lastly, using such signals also means you severely limit your talent pool, undermining diversity and inclusion in your future workforce.
To make things worse (or, counterintuitively, better!), the human signals we “observe” when meeting and interacting with a potential hire in person are now inaccessible and are not expected to be available any time soon. In any case, human signals are non-scalable: you can’t rely on this old-fashioned meet-&-greet to efficiently build a future workforce, as it is ripe with inconsistencies, biases, and time inefficiencies.
What’s the solution then?
This is where game-based soft signals change the game.
Soft signals are science-powered, data-driven signals of people’s “intangible” talents and “hidden” personal competencies, made possible by engaging and immersing yourself in a gaming state of flow and scientifically observing and analyzing the ensuing stream of micro-behaviors.
As recruiting and hiring are undergoing massive digital transformation and moving online, employers are seeing superior hiring outcomes: hiring higher quality talent at a fraction of the time/cost they used to spend to date.
Lastly, with the move to digital, hiring is also becoming a highly scalable business function that produces consistent results, wherever your talent pool happens to be, enabling you to reach people anywhere or everywhere.
“KnackApp has been a critical part of our selection process for over two years. This gamified neuroscience technology has ably boosted our hiring process by helping us gauge the leadership potential of candidates. Thus it has been instrumental in identifying young, high potential talent poised to become the future leaders of the Tata Group.”
Mahafrid Billimoria
General Manager
Head of Tata Group’s Leadership Program
Tata Group