Google’s old hiring plan: Go to the toughest schools, find the smartest people, give them the hardest tests. Hire the ones who perform the best. They changed their plan. Google’s new talent acquisition process: Uncover the hidden qualities of the current highest-performing employees. Then, select candidates who replicate those same qualities, ensuring a cultural fit as well as a continuation of pre-established successes. We wanted to dive a little deeper, so we asked Juan Betancourt how to skip Google’s hiring mistakes, and hire faster, hire smarter, and higher stronger-fit candidates. Juan is the CEO of Humantelligence, where they have developed a 12-minute EQ test that allows an organization to uncover the hidden culture fit, eliminate 80-90% of labor in hiring, and find the highest-performing candidates. Previously, Juan was the Global Head of Strategy at Puma, USA Country Manager for DECATHLON ($20B global sports brand), and founded Gonza Executive Search, to help mid-market companies find and place C-Suite executives. Juan attended Harvard for his Bachelor’s in Economics, and has an MBA from Wharton. (If you haven’t got this already, this guy’s a brainiac.) We had to have him on our Digital Transformation Pioneers podcast.

1: How a 12-Minute EQ Test Helps You Hire Better, Hire Faster, & Eliminate Subjectivity w/ Juan Betancourt

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