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Can AI predict when that new hire will quit?

CIO: What if you knew when a job candidate would quit before you offered them the job? While the tech’s yet to predict the time new hires will spend at a job down to the minute, two startups are selling pattern matching that helps employers predict whether prospective employees will make it longer than a year. If the tech works, it could save employers billions. But is the payoff worth it?

First, there’s Pymetrics, a data science startup that runs job applicants through a series of 12 online games. But “they're not really just games,” CEO and co-founder Dr. Frida Polli explains. “They are scientific exercises that have been developed by the cognitive neuroscience community globally to look at different cognitive and emotional traits.”

People applying for positions at Accenture or Unilever, Pymetrics’ lead clients, play solitaire online, stack virtual rings in piles, and participate in other exercises designed to decipher the inner workings of an applicant’s brain: Are they an altruistic person? Do they work more quickly or more slowly when dealing with distraction? The technology measures more than 90 cognitive, emotional, and social traits, all of which, Polli says, “come to the surface for different roles at different companies.”

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