Following a recent post on the dissatisfaction of applicants with their experience of psychometric testing, it was interesting to read in "Graduate Recruiter" that Barclays Capital have moved towards using an online business simulation exercise during their half day assessment centre programme.
The exercise aims to test candidates' responses to realistic work situations using an interactive tool which feeds them information from a variety of sources, rather in the manner of the old 'in-tray' type exercise, complete with deadlines, distractions and last minute changes.
Meanwhile GCHQ have had the innovative idea of asking potential applicants to crack a code on an anonymous website and publicising the event on blogs, twitter, youtube and other social media. Those who successfully cracked the code without hacking the site illegally could access details of the code source as well as current employment opportunities with GCHQ.
Apparently this campaign attracted 94 million hits, a record for a recruitment website. However, only 236 people succeeded in cracking the code. Presumably at least some of them are by now working for GCHQ.
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