EDINBURGH, Scotland–Royal Bank of Scotland has added something new to its hiring process: mind scans.
The bank has prospective job-seekers also wearing brain scanners as they are showed a series of videos and images, according to Bloomberg. A readout based on students’ cerebral responses gives them a description of their personality type and suggests an area of the bank’s operations that might be a good fit.
Patrick Eltridge, RBS chief information officer, told Bloomberg that the use of “gamification and online simulation” gives the bank a new tool for evaluating applicants and also provides graduates with valuable feedback.
According to Fortune.com, “The gambit reflects a broader drive among banks to persuade talented graduates—and especially those with a background in tech—to work for them, as opposed to joining startups. The increased prevalence of mobile banking, shifting customer demographics, and diverse cyber-hacking threats have spiked demand for talented technology graduates across the banking sector. Over the past two years Deutsche Bank has doubled the size of its graduate pool; JP Morgan & Chase lso recently ramped up its hiring of technology staff.”
“The majority of the technology graduates we want to bring in are people with a focus on software engineering,” Scott Marcar, Deutsche Bank’s IT boss in London told Bloomberg.