2090 – Transform Hiring Strategy Through AI in Recruitment with Quintela’s Joel Quintela

Enhancing Recruitment Efficiency with Structured Hiring and AI In a recent episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur, the host engages in a compelling conversation with Joel Quintela, the founder and CEO of Quintela, an HR technology company specializing in assessments for hiring processes. The discussion delves into the critical importance of structured hiring practices and the transformative role of technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), in enhancing recruitment efficiency and decision-making. The host begins by inviting the audience to explore opportunities for introductions to partners, investors, influencers, and clients, sharing their extensive experience in the business world and promoting a free video resource available on their website. Joel Quintela is introduced, highlighting his background as a business psychologist and explaining that his company focuses on building HR technology for large organizations, particularly Fortune 500 companies. The conversation quickly shifts to the core of Quintela's work, which involves enhancing the hiring process through various assessments, including personality tests, role plays, and structured interviews. Joel emphasizes the significance of structured interviews in the hiring process, noting that informal interviews often yield unreliable results. He explains that hiring is fundamentally a probability game, and organizations can increase their chances of success by being deliberate about the skills and competencies required for each role. The discussion also touches on current trends in hiring, with Joel identifying significant movements such as the shift to skills-based hiring and the integration of AI in recruitment. AI is being utilized to streamline various repetitive tasks in the hiring process, enhancing candidate communication, managing scheduling, and assisting in the assessment process. Joel highlights the importance of candidate experience throughout the hiring process and explains how Quintela's platform operates, offering tailored solutions for different organizations. The episode concludes with the host encouraging listeners to explore Quintela's offerings further and thanking Joel for his insights. About Joel Quintela: Joel Quintela is the founder and CEO of Quintela Group LLC, a minority-owned business enterprise specializing in HR technology solutions. With over 25 years of experience in HR assessment technology and 15 years as an entrepreneur, Joel has worked with numerous Fortune 500 clients to improve their hiring processes. About Quintela: Quintela provides technology-based talent assessment solutions for organizations. Products are- Digital Interview Guide platform which is an interview builder tool that allows talent acquisition teams to create interview guides, competency models, and screening protocols for various positions at an organization, Assessment platform that integrates multiple assessment vendors, proprietary assessments, or competencies in a simple dashboard and provides assessment administering and reporting tools, and integration with ATS/HRMS systems for candidate/employee assessment, and Custom Performance Management System. Won Silver in the 2016 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards in Technology. Apply to be a Guest on The Thoughtful Entrepreneur: https://go.upmyinfluence.com/podcast-guest Links Mentioned in this Episode: Want to learn more? Check out Quintela website at https://quintela.io/ Check out Quintela on Facebook at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/quintelagroup" rel="noopener noreferrer"...