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team of mathematicians, psychologists, software engineers, educators, and others to develop and bring to market a technology platform that weaves behavioral science and data analytics into games that reveal a job candidate's potential on a number of metrics. For example, in Dashi Dash, Knack's signature game, candidates are asked to play the role of a virtual server in a Japanese restaurant who must predict customers' food preferences on the basis of their facial expressions while greeting and serving other customers. Halfteck said that one's performance in Dashi Dash can within ten minutes sort out such attributes as emotional intelligence, risk tolerance, and adaptability to change. And it seems that not a few hiring managers agree: Knack claimed more than two hundred corporate clients in 2017. Yet while Knack and similar efforts are growing in popularity, there's scant evidence that games offer a genuine improvement over more subjective. methods of hiring. What is more certain is that in many sectors hiring has become a game. In recent years the ratio of job applicants to job opportunities has declined radically from the spring of 2009, when unemployment was at its height. But competition for most jobs remains fierce and shows little sign of abating. According to a 2017 survey commissioned by the job site Glassdoor, the average job announcement brought more than 250 resumes, and only 2 percent of applicants were called in for an interview. Indeed, the vast majority of job candidates fail to get any response, let alone land any particular job they apply for, regardless of their ability to master a video game or, for that matter, win over a human recruiter. Yet despite this reality, many resist the idea that a scarcity of good jobs underlies our job search difficulties or our unhappiness with the job we have. When I asked Sharone why this was the case, his response bore a tinge of frustration. "We want to live in a world where every talented person can get a job they enjoy," he told me. The reality- that many very capable people cannot find a job that suits their abilities, education, and talents in a job "market" that increasingly resembles a discount store-is too disturbing for many of us to face. So instead, we hunker down in an effort to make ourselves a "good match." Making ourselves a good match is not easy, especially for jobs of the sort that once sustained us and the nation. For while America is rich and getting richer, most Americans are not, For the past two decades, median household income has essentially stagnated, a problem made
