This Company Let You Play Video Games To Evaluate Your Ability In The Job Interview

That is a part of Rajiv Vijay Kalangi and Jayaraman’s dream - Knolskape’s co-founders  who wish to advance the way that business all over the world carry interviews out when recruiting employees and take evaluation for them to get promotion. However, the co-founders wish to turn job interviews into an exact science, not just make them become smoother.

The CTO of Knolskape - Vijay Kalangi told me about Kognitix - the custom-built tool of the company in brief that he considered it as a trimming knife used by him and Jayaraman to peel off all the inessential during the recruiting process for both companies and applicants can concentrate on getting things done.

What’s the key focus?

To be more precise, Kognitix is a tool for assessing but it does not resemble what you’ve known. It’s kinda like the first day of hitting the gym with your PT more than just exams that you’ve done. The core distinction here is that the employers want you to write down your knowledge which you have to show off after then.

Kalangi says, “By Q&A showdowns, we could put promising recruitments. However, what’s the way for us to make testing and learning fun, we asked ourselves.” And that’s the reason forms Kognitix here, right in India. From scratch,developed in-house is programmed alike browser games which is  an interactive set of tests. An applicant shall play games which last from 5 to 7 minutes while the software assesses their answers and ultimately put forth the last mark.

For a year, according to Kalangi, his company has been studied on such contrivance and carried out tests which are capable for analyzing a number of definite categories. While based on psychology, they’ve found that the integrated appliances are unquestionable. He claims, “There is less thing to do with guidance but more with knowledge. The program makes people feel more comfortable and sweep tension away, even they can explore something news about themselves sometimes.”

Site Reliability Engineer at Knolskape - Gangireddy Danamreddy utters:

Also, as part of a prolonged beta testing stage, Danamreddy was recruited to the using-Kognitix firm. He claims:

Behind the scenes

According to Kalangi,based on inputs from the global professional advisors and organizational psychologists of the company to select and design the particular games for Kognitix which might be the one of a kind currently existed in India as well. Each module’s game is about 5MB, it’s kinda small,and you can play it with your laptop or smartphone’s browser. If you read the tutorials more than once, you’ve ended a strict testing session  under an hour or around 45 minutes with each game lasts between 5 and 7 minutes.

Also, it’s impossible to false your responses during the test, assured by Kalangi. You are allowed to play each game only one time howbeit many times that you read the tutorials. Your effectiveness at planning ahead shall be estimated by Park Smart, your thought’s flexibility looked by Candy Crunch, both your decision making and problem solving along with response inhibition tested by Zombie Flush, your response time and how much you pay attention gauged by Space Raid, how much of a risk-taker you’re measured by Party Rush and your working memory assessed by Mole Combat.

Your individual score showed on a scale of 5 points, based on which position you rank in the relation to the standard of your group. For example, if you gain a 1 for response inhibition section, you’re tending to act without thought than your measured resolution. And it means that you shall flash matter-of-fact plans for assignments but you’re likely to have struggles with making plans for contingencies if gaining a 3 for planning section that places you in the mean range.

Judge you over just the numbers

According to a report, playing the mentioned above games not only gives you scores but also presents meaning for each of them. In each categories of the test, it makes details on what you need to be attentive to and what you’re excel at and concurrently suggests you the way to use your strong points as well as handle with your weak points. And note in mind that even if you’re applying for a job, not trying to get promoted, this is all of what you get.

Besides, the company makes other plans on altering the way that corporates operate. They’re advancing imitations to make employees deal with particular situations in one of those plans. Through this, they can analysis how personality of a staff gels with others because of their already-known performances capabilities then make a decision on a promotion from there. They use a Mood meter to test internally how often in a week that their employees interact with. And within the company, they can measure the employees’ level of happiness based on the responses to assist in keeping uo self-esteem.

Kalangi does not talk about the complete removal of interviews, just fine-tune the process. He claims, “Face-to-face is still fundamental, however, it can perform much better when carried out with additional inputs from a system of cognitive measurement. 'It can act as a great first-line filter in recruiting,' he adds.