WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 9: Elon Musk, founder and chief engineer of SpaceX, speaks at the 2020 Satellite Conference and Exhibition on March 9, 2020, in Washington, DC. Musk answered a number of questions about SpaceX projects during his appearance at the conference. (Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images)
Photo: Win McNamee / Getty Images
Elon Musk revealed that there is a question he always asks candidates in interviews to check if they are lying or not.
As head of Tesla, SpaceX and co-founder and founder of Neuralink and The Boring Company, the 49-year-old entrepreneur clearly knows what he is doing when it comes to business.
It has also recently become the richest person in the world With a net worth in excess of £ 136 billion, it’s no wonder everyone wants to know its secrets, even when it comes to hiring employees.
Musk is not interested in knowing what school a potential employee attended, not even their level of education, Daily Star reports.
“You don’t even have to have a college, not even a high school,” Musk said in a 2014 interview with Auto Bild.
Instead, look “Evidence of exceptional ability” when it comes to hiring new staff.
“If there is evidence of exceptional achievements, it is likely to continue in the future,” he said.
Sure, it’s easy for someone to lie on their resume or accomplishments, but Musk has a question meant to catch liars.
Speaking at the 2017 World Government Summit, Musk acknowledged that he asks each interviewing candidate the same question: “Tell me about some of the most difficult problems you’ve worked on and how you solved them.”
A study published in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition in December 2020 found several approaches to detecting liars based on a job interview technique that actually supports Musk’s technique.
One of these methods is called “Asymmetric Information Management” (AIM) and is designed to provide the interviewee with a clear way to prove his or her innocence or guilt to the investigator by providing detailed information.
“The small details are the essence of forensic investigations and can provide investigators with facts to verify and witnesses to question,” he wrote. Cody Porter, one of the study’s authors and a senior education colleague at the University of Portsmouth, in an article for The Conversation.
Interviewers should give clear instructions to interviewees that “if they provide longer and more detailed statements about the event of interest, then the investigator will be able to better detect whether they are telling the truth or lying.
On the contrary, liars want to hide their guilt “, Porter explained.
“This means that it is more likely to store information strategically in response to the AIM method.
“It simply came to our notice then providing more information will make it easier for the investigator to detect your lietherefore it tends to provide less information ”.
The study also found that use AIM method can increase the probability of detecting liars by almost 70%.
Musk added in an interview with Auto Bild that what he really wants to know is if a candidate actually solved the problem he claimed to have solved.
“And, of course, do you want to make sure that if there were significant achievements, were they really responsible for their achievements or was someone else responsible for them?
“Usually, someone who really had to deal with a problem really understands [los detalles] and don’t forget it “, he concluded.