So what if your first interview for a job wasn’t with HR, or the hiring manager, or even a human being? What if you got interviewed by a computer? Enter the Nemesysco HR1 Automated Integrity Profiling/Risk Assessment System.

By analyzing the emotional content of a person’s speech, it purports to pick up on such key personality elements as ethics and morals. Basically, using a telephone handset, the computer asks you questions on topics from “loyalty and honesty to drug usage, theft from a place of employment, bribery, kickbacks, fraud and deceit.”

It’s an interesting presumption – that a computer can pick up on more subtle speech cues than a human by analyzing patterns in the voice. It sounds like a beefed up lie detector to me, but perhaps the future of  the interview, or better yet, the phone screen.

Here’s a link to an article about the device