Business Chief USA February 2019
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LEADERSHIP<br />
30<br />
Adrian Ezra, the founder and CEO of<br />
JamieAi is out to change the face of an<br />
industry that, in his mind, is in dire need of<br />
a new approach. Halfway through the interview<br />
he stops to say: “Actually I love this story. Let<br />
me… It’ll take 30 seconds… A hiring manager<br />
at a very large investment bank is approached<br />
with a stack of 100 CVs to evaluate. He takes<br />
half of the CVs and throws them in the bin. The<br />
HR business partner turns to him and says:<br />
‘Why did you do that?’ And he says ‘we don’t<br />
hire unlucky people.’ That virtual bin does<br />
exist. CVs that get sent in don’t get read.”<br />
With almost 20 years as CEO of headhunting<br />
company Execuzen, Ezra understands better<br />
than most the advantages, disadvantages and<br />
inefficiencies of the recruitment space. “You<br />
look at what you get, and you look at what it<br />
costs, and you figure that there’s<br />
a disconnect. Something is wrong,<br />
something has to give.” <strong>Business</strong><br />
<strong>Chief</strong> sat down with Ezra to find<br />
out how his new passion project,<br />
London-based recruitment tech<br />
startup JamieAi, is disrupting the<br />
recruitment space using a mixture<br />
of human expertise and<br />
AI-driven automation.<br />
“I’ve always thought that<br />
recruitment as an industry,<br />
“I believe<br />
that my best<br />
recruiter is<br />
always the<br />
most focused<br />
recruiter”<br />
—<br />
Adrian Ezra,<br />
Founder and CEO, JamieAi<br />
FEBRUARY <strong>2019</strong>
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