By Futurist Thomas Frey
In 2025, less than 1% of companies quietly abandoned one of the most sacred rituals in modern business—the job interview. Instead of forcing candidates to rehearse canned answers and fake confidence, they gave them something radical: real work. Each applicant completed a three-day paid project using the company’s actual tools, collaborating with the real team. The results were astonishing—an 89% success rate in predicting strong hires, compared to the industry’s 56% average for traditional interviews. In those companies, charisma stopped masquerading as competence.
By 2040, this tiny experiment had transformed into a global mandate. Job interviews as we know them are now banned in 23 U.S. states after courts ruled they were inherently biased—favoring confidence over capability, extroversion over execution.
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