If you can play this game, you’re hired

In recent interview a CEO makes the case (inadvertently, I am sure) for why epistemic games should not be used only in K-12 education.

Wendy Kopp of Teach for America describes a hiring process that sounds remarkably like an epistemic game:

If it seems like someone would be a fit here, based on that, then we’ll actually try to simulate the job…. I used to hire people and then realize within two days whether someone was going to thrive or not. So I said, “Let’s actually find out what we’re going to know two days in, before someone starts.” We just send them a bunch of stuff that they would get otherwise on their first day and say, “Here are the challenges of the day.” And we ask them to write up their answers, and then actually engage with them deeply so that we understand whether they have the skills that a particular role is going to require.