HiringBranch CEO & Co-Founder Stephane Rivard

Are the days of the traditional interview process over? We’re experiencing a paradigm shift in the recruitment world where simulation replaces speculation and soft skills take center stage. Joining us to discuss how AI is transforming the hiring process is the CEO and Co-Founder of HiringBranch, Stephane Rivard. In this episode, we explore how HiringBranch is revolutionizing hiring by creating a platform where candidates can showcase their abilities in real-time simulated scenarios. Stephane highlights the importance of soft skills and explains how HiringBranch’s assessment works, breaking down the types of skills they assess in candidates. Tune in for insights into the AI recruitment revolution, which may just be paving the way for a more accurate and effective way of finding the right talent.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Introducing Stephane Rivard, the CEO and Fo-Founder of HiringBranch.
• How Stephane “unplugs” and what’s on his reading list.
• Stephane’s background: how he always strove to be an entrepreneur.
• Insight into his company, HiringBranch, which uses AI for high-volume hiring.
• How the HiringBranch platform works, the skills it assesses, and how the assessment varies based on the role being applied for.
• What companies are getting wrong in the traditional interview process.
• The goal of the platform to identify candidates who excel in soft skills.
• How HiringBranch bypasses the interview process by simulating job scenarios without the presence of an engineer or mentor.
• A surprising realization Stephane had about the recruitment industry.

Tweetables:

“My idea of unplugging is reading business books.” — Stephane Rivard [0:01:51]

“There are typically two roles that we use [for] our platform. One of them is for a sales-oriented or loyalty-oriented role, and the other one is customer service.” — Stephane Rivard [0:07:12]

“What [the HiringBranch platform] does, especially for high volume jobs, [is give] you a standardized way to evaluate everyone.” — Stephane Rivard [0:15:58]

“Everything we do — even our lives, our apps — are metric driven. Why is there not more of this metric-driven approach to hiring?” — Stephane Rivard [0:24:28]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Stephane Rivard on LinkedIn

HiringBranch

A Brief History of the Interview and Its Future

THE AI RECRUITER: Revolutionizing Hiring with Advanced GPT-Powered Prompts

Talk Talent to Me

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