I don't know exactly how they work, because I'm not a tenured full professor on a committee, deciding which candidate for hiring (or tenure, promotion, or whatever else) has the best CV.

I would guess that original research showing significant results, published in a major journal, with a lot of citations by peers, earns the most points. You have to ascend higher on the prestige point leaderboard to get the career advancement achievements and character perks.

Wait, are we talking about academia or Fallout?

The promise of doing really cool work.

What also increases the rate of people choosing a at the first question.