The technology up-gradation is easing our lives day by day. One of the new addition in the technology arena is Gamification that is been gaining significance in recent times. Gamification is the usage of game thinking and game mechanics in a non-game arena such as business environment, recruitment, training and development, and more. Considering Gamification’s efficiency in training, recruitment, employee engagement, and more it is widely used in the HR sector. A survey on Gamification unveils that about 45 percent of people have already encountered a game like elements during the recruitment process. While the remaining 78 percent states that the gamification makes the organization more desirable.

Employee Experience on Gamification
This gamification has been adopted by many organizations to induce life at work, as the employee's experience could experience more fun using gamification. Furthermore, this works on their training and communication software. According to the survey conducted on gamification at work in 2019, 33 percent of employees prefer gamification as a training software, 30 percent desire it in the form of communication software, 15 percent want it as a contact tool, customer relation, and HR tool, 10 percent prefer document software and 12 percent want it as the project management software. Considering its training efficiency, close to 62 percent of employees feel motivated to post the training through gamification while 31 percent feel bored and unproductive.

Gamification Eases HR Management
To have a productive workforce, an organization usually opt to build more competitiveness among employees. That human psychology has a direct influence on competence, participation, and brings in interest in other activities. This competitiveness among employees aid in reaching pre-determined goals. This competitiveness is induced in the employees by implementing a gaming mechanism that indeed boosts employee motivation, company culture, and employee engagement. This competitiveness would further encourage the employees to raise their stake among their colleagues through sustained achievement.

Recruitment Process Through Gamification
The tool acts greatly in attracting the superlative talent, by assimilating the gaming machines in the interview processes, talent managers are able to analyze a candidate’s behaviors and sentiments. This gaming mechanism is combined with various quizzing that is related to industry challenges and behavioral tests. Through this method, the interview could be made more interactive that helps the recruiters to analyze the candidates’ relevant skills and experience.

Also, this mechanism brings out the candidate’s innovative skills, creativity, as well as time management as these qualities are the basic requirement of any organization. Additionally, virtual headhunting tools, puzzles, rewards, real-time progress charts, and badges also could make the recruitment process more conversational and add more value to the selection process. For the application of gamification, talent managers could effectively utilize the dashboards and leader boards to track the recruiting progress and identify top performers.

Training and development
Implementation of gaming mechanisms in training could reinforce the learning strategy of talent managers. This mechanism aids in aligning the learning objective to deliver a highly engaging atmosphere for the training and development of employees. Gamification is amalgamated with suitable gaming mechanisms that identify knowledge gaps and helps in enhancing performance.

Employee Engagement
Using gamification techniques, talent managers to bring in the competition and more the employees more productive, and aid in maintaining a friendly environment in the workplace. They also use leader boards to track the progress, facilitate recognition, and reward their efforts to encourage interaction and engagement.