Ray Smith

But there's also the people who are arguing that

this is a fairer way to hire because it's just based on sort of objective skills and objective answers rather than subjective things.

I wondered about that too.

And right now, it's still early, but so far it seems to run the gamut.

It can be an automaker looking for technicians.

It can be an airline looking for cabin crew members.

But it could also be a retailer looking for customer service people.

And it wouldn't be far fetched to see this happening for all sorts of industries, white collar and blue collar, even industry that you think would have been sort of reluctant to try this because, you know, they're all about we need the human person involved or our industry is so tactile and so about, you know, the people.

The efficiency thing is really a compelling argument.

One thing that I learned of going through this process was just how the job interview is really evolving.

You know, I remember being interviewed in person throughout my career.

And sometimes you'd be like, what does that question have to do with the job?

Because it would be like...

Or you hear that question like, where do you see yourself in five years?

Right here, working right here, very hard.

Or just these questions that they're trying to get to know you.

I mean, that's what the goal is.

But some of them you're like, why did that come up?

Or how should I answer that?

And what is the right answer to that?