Everything to play for as employers turn to video games in recruitment drive

Firms such as Deloitte hope to hire people using smartphone apps - but can they produce accurate results?

Job interviews have traditionally been painful affairs, with applicants sitting, sweaty-palmed, in some anteroom wondering whether or not to accept a biscuit. But today's job applicants may well find themselves facing not an intimidating interview panel but a computer-based "psychometric" test.

And anyone after a job with accountant Deloitte had better start honing their skills on Angry Birds, because the company's latest recruiting tool is a mobile phone game. Called Firefly Freedom, it is set in a fictional forested world in which players must catch fireflies to provide light for their family during the winter.