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Industry: HR Consulting & Work Psychology
Client: Mayako Business Consulting
Role: Martin Jakubek, Owner, HR Consultant and Psychologist
Location: Slovakia
As remote hiring and AI tools become more widespread, ensuring fairness and authenticity in candidate assessments has become increasingly complex.
Martin Jakubek, a leading Slovak expert in employee selection, has dedicated nearly four decades to working at the intersection of work psychology, executive hiring, and organisational development.
In this interview, he discusses how Quilgo helps him safeguard assessment integrity, efficiently manage larger volumes of candidates, and uphold high professional standards in an age where sophisticated digital cheating is a concern.
An Interview with Martin Jakubek
Quilgo: Could you briefly introduce yourself and your work?
Martin Jakubek: I am an independent HR consultant and psychologist with almost 40 years of experience in human resource management and candidate selection.
In addition to running my private practice at Mayako Business Consulting, I serve as a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Psychology at Comenius University in Bratislava, where I also completed my PhD. My work focuses on work psychology interventions, soft skills training, and expert consulting for managerial education.
My clients range from large corporations to specialised firms, often seeking high-level professionals such as CEOs, IT specialists, and experts who require strong hard skills, high productivity, and mental resilience. Assessments of work-related knowledge and skills are a crucial part of my workflow. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, online consulting and remote testing have become integral to how I advise companies.
Quilgo: What were the biggest challenges of running remote assessments?
Martin: The increasing sophistication of cheating, especially through AI, has become the biggest challenge in assessments. It is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between a candidate’s genuine knowledge and answers generated externally.
In the past, I relied on traditional human-supervised online testing and professional expertise. However, as cheating methods advanced, such as the use of smart glasses and AI assistants, it felt like a constant battle between detecting sophisticated cheating and its use.
I realised that relying solely on human expertise is sometimes insufficient for monitoring the digital environment during a test. We need reliable tools to ensure integrity, especially when candidates are under pressure to perform and may be tempted to use unauthorised aids.
Quilgo: What were you seeking in a solution?
Martin: I needed a way to verify that the person taking the test is working independently, not copying AI-generated answers or using external resources.
Quilgo impressed me with its strong price-performance ratio and versatility. What I appreciate the most is the transparency it brings to the testing process, something often lacking in basic online forms or AI-driven systems.
As an independent consultant, efficiency and the automation of routine monitoring tasks are essential. The setup process for Quilgo was seamless, and the tool integrates well into my existing workflow.
Quilgo: What features have the most significant impact on your daily work?
Martin: Monitoring and tracking features are crucial. They provide the audit trail necessary when working with sensitive candidate data and high-level professional assessments.
I appreciate the screen tracking and screenshot functionality. Beyond verifying the credibility of answers, it sometimes reveals subtle insights into how a candidate approaches tasks. Screen tracking also helps prevent candidates from using external browsers or communicating with helpers online. In HR, establishing a professional relationship on a foundation of dishonesty is counterproductive for companies in the long term.
Interestingly, competent candidates often appreciate this fairness. They value a system that prevents others from simply cheating their way into a position.
Quilgo: How has Quilgo changed your workflow and overall assessment process?
Martin: Quilgo allows me to handle larger volumes of candidates with higher confidence in the data. I can pre-select the best fits from among dozens of applicants more efficiently and with greater confidence in the authenticity of their results.
It removes much of the “grunt work” involved in monitoring, allowing me to focus on final decisions where human expertise is irreplaceable.
While time savings are difficult to quantify precisely, processing dozens of CVs and assessments has become genuinely more efficient and streamlined.
Quilgo has greatly enhanced Martin's remote assessment process by increasing confidence in candidate authenticity, allowing for the pre-selection of top candidates from larger applicant pools, reducing the manual monitoring workload, and improving the integrity of psychological and skills-based evaluations.
Quilgo: How important are trust and fairness in HR assessments and candidate evaluations?
Martin: It is vital. A bad hire resulting from a fraudulent assessment represents a failure of the HR process and often leads to the candidate leaving or being dismissed. It is also a failure for my professional reputation as a personnel selection consultant.
Quilgo: Would you recommend Quilgo to other HR consultants or small practices?
Martin: Yes, especially for consultants who want to maintain high standards of fairness in their selection processes in a cost-effective way. However, I always advise maintaining a critical perspective. Do not rely solely on what the system produces. Human expertise must always make the final call.
Quilgo: How would you describe Quilgo in one sentence to another consultant?
Martin: "It's a competent collaborator that handles the monitoring of assessment integrity's 'grunt work' so you can focus on the final expert decision."
Final Thoughts
For experienced professionals like Martin Jakubek, technology is not a replacement for expertise; it is a safeguard.
In an era where AI-generated answers and increasingly sophisticated cheating methods challenge remote hiring, structured proctoring tools like Quilgo help restore fairness, transparency, and credibility to digital assessments.
By combining human judgment with reliable monitoring technology, HR consultants can protect both their clients and their professional integrity.
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