We’ve all got a job interview horror story. The candidate reeling off a pitch perfectly crafted by ChatGPT. The recruiter winging their questions between two coffees. The “we’ll get back to you” that never gets back to you.

We’ve outsourced our emotional intelligence to cold algorithms and our common sense to automated filters. Candidates recite, recruiters tick boxes — and in the end, we stare at each other for 45 minutes hoping the magic will happen. Spoiler: it doesn’t. And the bad hire? That one costs a lot.

Elvire Gagneur spent 15 years behind the scenes of this theatre. She’s seen the masks, the biases, the hiring disasters — and she’s opening a path no one has explored yet: gamifying recruitment to put the human back in — the real one, the one with guts — where there’s nothing left but formatting.

20 minutes to understand why the system is broken, and to discover what happens when you stop playing a role and start playing for real.