Talview - Tech Innovator of the Year
Company: Talview, San Mateo, CA
Company Description: Talview's AI-powered hiring and proctoring solutions are the fastest way to remotely screen, interview, and test top talent and students. With their unique approach, they are transforming the talent acquisition and testing processes for some of the largest organizations across the globe.
Nomination Category: Management Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Tech Innovator of the Year - Services
Nomination Title: Sanjoe Tom Jose, CEO and co-founder of Talview
Sanjoe Tom Jose is the CEO and co-founder of Talview, an award-winning hiringand proctoring software leader. Sanjoe is passionate about building technologies that help make hiring faster and easier and is an established thought leader on topics surrounding remote hiring and the future of work.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjoetomjose
One of Sanjoe’s biggest achievements since January 2019 has been successfully leading Talview and its customers through the global disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sanjoe’s expertise in product development, business strategy, and customer acquisition were instrumental in ensuring not only that Talview and its clients could “keep afloat” during COVID-19 - but also that they could drive further innovation and growth.
When the pandemic hit, Talview first launched its SafeHiring page, including a short video to support businesses to champion remote hiring in the face of COVID-19 and a free Remote Hiring Starter Kit with additional resources.
https://www.talview.com/safe-hiring">#
https://youtu.be/9Xc4qLqJrCE
https://www.talview.com/remote-hiring-resources
Assessing the needs of the landscapes outside of Talview’s immediate customer base, Sanjoe soon realized that the company’s AI-driven recruitment tools could be repackaged into a solution to meet the newfound demands of educational institutions and certification providers. And so, the Talview Proview Live Proctoring solution was born: a comprehensive platform that combines the power of AI-enabled automated proctoring with active human monitoring and intervention. This all-inclusive solution enables education institutions, certification bodies, and organizations worldwide to administer secure exams and ensure exam integrity. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/talview-launches-a-robust-remote-proctoring-solution-for-exam-integrity-talview-proview-live-proctoring-301117482.html?tc=eml_cleartime
Not only was this software an immediate solution to the restrictions of the pandemic, it also helps educational bodies boost admissions, improve retention, and gain access to a wider pool of students, reducing bias towards under-represented students and leading to an increase in the amount of high-achieving learners. Talview continues to develop this solution to support this vertical today and into the future.
But Sanjoe’s innovative accomplishments and entrepreneurial rigor didn’t begin there.
Prior to the pandemic, Talview was renowned for its hiring solution that leverages AI to increase speed of hire. Talview received Microsoft’s AI for All Award and Sanjoe was featured in TalentCulture's list of Human Resources Technology Leaders from 2020-21. The concept of Instahiring - using technology to find the fastest way to a happy hire - helps enterprises to beat hiring lag and engage candidates, empowering them to achieve a 100% digital hiring process with a high-quality candidate experience from the first interaction to final selection.
Talview’s innovative technologies have led to impressive partnerships in the space: Talview partnered with LinkedIn Talent Hub to put AI-powered live video interviewing inside the platform’s ATS to allow users to interview anywhere, anytime, verify authenticity, and objectively assess hard and soft skills. In November 2020, Talview launched its app for Microsoft Teams, enhanced with Interview Intelligence and the ability to increase collaboration among hiring teams through improved scheduling and selection processes. In the times of COVID-19 and remote work, this was a crucial point to provide such functionality to Teams users.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/talview-partners-with-linkedin-talent-hub-to-put-ai-powered-live-video-interviewing-inside-the-new-ats-300981551.html
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/talview-launches-next-generation-remote-hiring-with-interview-intelligence-on-microsoft-teams-301173697.html?tc=eml_cleartime
In March 2020, Sanjoe welcomed a new addition to Talview’s executive team: VP of Sales, Colin Danaher, to support global adoption of the Instahiring category. Colin has experience building and running high-performance sales organizations and has decades of experience in the Human Capital Management and Workforce Planning Technology domains. https://blog.talview.com/talview-hires-new-vp-of-sales-colin-danaher
To close one of the most tumultuous years that the global business community had ever seen, Sanjoe decided to conduct the Remote Hiring Trends Survey, which explored the key trends that talent leaders and recruiting teams expect to see in 2021. The survey generated responses from talent acquisition leaders in more than 20 countries and 15 industries from global brands such as Amazon, Disney, Vodafone, Kellogg, Huawei, Princeton University, and Uber. The survey uncovered access to innovative, all-in-one recruiting solutions will power companies’ remote hiring efforts in the coming year. https://blog.talview.com/talviews-remote-hiring-trends-survey-uncovers-key-recruitment-team-building-and-technology-trends-for-2021
-Leading Talview through COVID-19, providing crucial direction for product development, business strategy, and customer acquisition.
-Recognizing an opportunity to launch the Talview Proview Live Proctoring solution for education and certification providers. This led to a new solution for this vertical and continued product development is underway.
-Building key partnerships with LinkedIn Talent Hub (Talview video interviewing solution integrated within the ATS) and Microsoft Teams (Talview app available for Microsoft Team, enabling team collaboration Interview Intelligence).
-Making key management hires, with Colin Danaher, VP of Sales, to increase global adoption of the Instahiring category, with Parimal Bajpai, VP of Engineering, to drive further product innovation.
-Holding Instahiring 2020, the world-leading talent acquisition technology conference, with industry leader speakers including Scott Wintrip.
-Conducting the SafeHiring campaign in Q2 of 2020 to help companies manage the risks and restrictions of COVID-19.