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much knowledge of the individual. You’re
just sending their CV in because, if you
don’t, somebody else will. As a result, the
industry gets a bad name.”
Examining the recruitment process
as it exists, Ezra explains: “If you actually
look through the recruitment process,
what does a recruiter do? When you
get a job from a company, a recruiter
goes out, sources the role, sources
the candidates, filters the candidates,
presents the candidates, engages and
organizes the interview process, and
closes the successful candidate into
the job.” The nature of the recruitment
industry until now means this process
can be made inefficient by its competitive
nature, as individuals receive offers
from recruiters whose matches aren’t
accurate, which leads to distrust and
further inefficiencies.
“You wouldn’t want to open a cab
company today when you’re looking to
compete with the likes of Lyft and Uber,
but you would still open a recruitment
company,” says Ezra. His goal, he explains,
for the recruitment sector in five
years’ time, is to disrupt and reshape
the industry to the same degree that
startups like Uber and Lyft have changed
the face of ride-sharing. “If I do my job
right, and other people like me do their
job right, opening a recruitment company
would be the equivalent of opening
a cab company, and you wouldn’t want
to do that.”
This is the space into which JamieAi
is injecting AI analytics solutions and
focused human expertise. “I believe
almost all of that process, if done
correctly, can be automated,” says
Ezra. “I think there are certain parts
of recruitment that automation, or
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