Unbiased Hiring: Jahanzaib Ansari - CEO, Knockri
Last year, I shared a window into my recent professional journey from transforming one client enterprise at a time, to an ecosystem-wide innovation focus. During this journey, I had the honour of meeting and working with leaders that inspire ecosystem growth for a long-term positive impact to the society. These leaders enable positive changes with every initiative they champion and every decision they make. This is a deeper commitment based on strategic investments and consistent leadership. Their goal is to enable long-term profitable solutions, with real positive impact to the society. These solutions are designed to enable well-being and sustainable lives for the next seven generations in our communities, with a focus on equity-building.
One of these inspiring leaders is Jahanzaib Ansari, Co-Founder and CEO at Knockri. Knockri is an explainable AI-powered solution with a core mission to align diversity and talent acquisition processes. Jahanzaib and I met to discuss the responsible innovation behind Knockri.
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Jahanzaib shared the story behind Knockri, stemming from his own personal struggles through the hiring process with an ethic name. Jahanzaib and his co-founder, Maaz, came to the realization that the talented professionals are often faced with disadvantages due to uncautious and other biases in the hiring process. They decided to address it with Knockri. Buried in this part of the conversation is a key ingredient that enables innovation: the need for authenticity as a leader to recognize and address their own strengths as well as weaknesses.
Jahanzaib: "...you know your strengths and your weaknesses, and your teams'. So it really creates a very cohesive environment."
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Jahanzaib: "We define success as how many candidates we can screen in a fair and just manner, because our goal is to ensure each and every person applying has a fair shot at the job."