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.

Simon Peel is the Chief Strategy Officer and CMO at Jitterbit. Before landing at his current role, Simon has spent time in product marketing, he’s been the CMO for 5 different startups, and he even spent time as a Chief Revenue Officer (or a Growth Hacker in his words).

At Jitterbit, Simon is back to what he’s best at: building companies. Jitterbit gets the right data in the hands of the right people at the right time. Their platform takes unwieldy data and simplifies it into digestible and actionable chunks to help companies be more successful.

Simon loves learning through other people’s experiences, so he is starting the Digital Transformation Pioneers Podcast through Jitterbit. In this podcast, listeners can expect to hear from industry pioneers who have real-life experience tackling the unknown.

Simon will ask what secrets they’ve learned along the way, what the most interesting parts of the journey have been, and what actionable steps listeners can take today to transform their business.