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

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

December 19, 20243 min read

Enhancing Recruitment Efficiency with Structured Hiring and AI: Insights from Joel Quintela

On a recent episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur, host Josh Elledge sits down with Joel Quintela, founder of Quintela, to explore how structured hiring and artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming recruitment for businesses of all sizes. Joel shares his deep expertise in business psychology and HR technology, revealing the game-changing strategies that Fortune 500s and smaller organizations alike are using to hire smarter and faster.

How Structured Hiring Improves Decision-Making
Joel emphasizes that traditional, unstructured interviews can be a gamble. Without consistent criteria, hiring decisions can become unreliable. At Quintela, Joel helps companies flip the script by implementing structured hiring practices—starting with clearly identifying the competencies and skills required for a role. These are often overlooked in generic job descriptions, yet they’re essential for predicting job performance.
By designing detailed interview guides and incorporating multiple types of assessments like role plays and personality tests, companies can make more data-driven decisions. Structured hiring not only increases the odds of making a great hire but also levels the playing field for candidates by standardizing the evaluation process.

The Role of AI in Modern Recruitment
Quintela’s platform also harnesses the power of AI to streamline repetitive hiring tasks. From automating candidate communications and scheduling to transcribing interviews and summarizing key points, AI frees up hiring managers to focus on high-value interactions.
Joel notes that this tech isn’t just about speed—it’s also about improving the overall candidate experience. He highlights a case study with a Fortune 500 client that reduced their hiring process from 50 steps to just 10 clicks using Quintela’s system. These kinds of results illustrate how both large enterprises and small businesses can achieve significant efficiency gains.


About Joel Quintela:
Joel Quintela is a business psychologist and the founder of Quintela, where he helps organizations improve their hiring processes using structured methods and AI. He specializes in HR tech solutions tailored to both Fortune 500 companies and growing businesses.

About Quintela:
Quintela is an HR technology company that empowers organizations to hire better through structured interviews, data-driven assessments, and AI-enabled tools. Their platform simplifies recruitment while boosting hiring accuracy and efficiency.

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Episode Highlights:

  • Why structured interviews outperform informal hiring practices

  • How to define key competencies before you even post a job

  • The role of personality tests and role plays in better hiring decisions

  • Ways AI can improve candidate communication, scheduling, and assessments

  • Real-world results: How a Fortune 500 cut their hiring steps by 80%


Conclusion:
This episode is a must-listen for any business leader looking to modernize their hiring process. Joel Quintela’s insights show that combining structured methodology with intelligent technology isn’t just the future of hiring—it’s already here. Whether you're a small business or a multinational corporation, there's something to gain from rethinking how you recruit.


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Josh Elledge is U.S. Navy veteran who became a serial entrepreneur who builds the companies he needs most in the world. In 2014, He launched UpMyInfluence to help entrepreneurs like himself attract the perfect audiences and grow their authority and influence. However, while growing their better-than-PR agency, UpMyInfluence discovered that building 7-figure B2B Sales Systems for consultants and agencies (with zero paid advertising) is actually what they do better than anyone else on the planet.

UMI was the natural outgrowth of his first startup, SavingsAngel.com which had grown to more than 50 employees and grossed more than $6 million in sales with zero paid ads. He did it all through building authority and serving audiences in the media.

Josh is a frequent speaker at business and startup conferences including Social Media Marketing World and a Tony Robbins event for his Business Mastery grads. He’s a weekly consumer expert on Fox 35 Orlando and News 13, writes a syndicated column for nine newspapers (with total readership above 1.1 million readers), and regularly appears on more than 75 TV stations across the country. All told, Josh has appeared in the media more than 2500 times.

Passionate about his family, physical fitness (an avid fitness geek and 5K to marathon runner), and breaking out of Escape Rooms, Josh now lives in Orlando with his wife and three children.

Josh Elledge

Josh Elledge is U.S. Navy veteran who became a serial entrepreneur who builds the companies he needs most in the world. In 2014, He launched UpMyInfluence to help entrepreneurs like himself attract the perfect audiences and grow their authority and influence. However, while growing their better-than-PR agency, UpMyInfluence discovered that building 7-figure B2B Sales Systems for consultants and agencies (with zero paid advertising) is actually what they do better than anyone else on the planet. UMI was the natural outgrowth of his first startup, SavingsAngel.com which had grown to more than 50 employees and grossed more than $6 million in sales with zero paid ads. He did it all through building authority and serving audiences in the media. Josh is a frequent speaker at business and startup conferences including Social Media Marketing World and a Tony Robbins event for his Business Mastery grads. He’s a weekly consumer expert on Fox 35 Orlando and News 13, writes a syndicated column for nine newspapers (with total readership above 1.1 million readers), and regularly appears on more than 75 TV stations across the country. All told, Josh has appeared in the media more than 2500 times. Passionate about his family, physical fitness (an avid fitness geek and 5K to marathon runner), and breaking out of Escape Rooms, Josh now lives in Orlando with his wife and three children.

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