Goan firms begin brain mapping of candidates

PANJIM, MAY 18
Few private companies in Goa have started brain mapping of their candidates to know their suitability for the post before handing over appointment letters to them.
 “We are working with companies like Zuari industries, Putzmeister, SIES management institute, who are been trained in this process,” Hemang Laheru, Program Director, PRISM and country head of Sanda Excellence, told reporters today.
He added saying that the mapping technology is been also used in finance and retail sectors across the state.
“Prism does not make any decision. It helps you in recruit your employees,” he stated.
Laheru said that along with the private firms, the company is also trying to work out with various government departments.
Sanda Excellence, an agency, which introduced prism brain mapping for the first time in the country, is in talks with the Maharashtra government to adopt this techniques in their recruitments.
 “We are in talk with various state governments but at the movement we have started with Maharashtra, where we will be launching a pilot project,” Laheru said.
The company intends to get the prism software translated into Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali, regional languages.
Laheru was talking at the open preview session on relevance of neuroscience to management organized by the Sanda Excellences.
It’s a unique programme that introduces a neuroscience-based instrument specifically designed to identify the behavioral preferences that directly relate to personal relationship and work.