Maaz Rana

Knockri in Techcrunch - Why achieving diversity in tech requires firing the industry's 'cultural fit' mentality

"Companies like Knockri develop talent recruitment products that screen job applicants objectively. Built without the often bias-heavy elements of gender, culture and ethnic background entering the picture until final stages of interviewing. Their ultimate goal: to boost representation of minorities, women and people from diverse backgrounds on interview shortlists for tech jobs and in workforces fueling the global economy."

Knockri in Forbes

Here's Why Canada Can Win the A.I. Race

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"The importance of diverse data sets is hard to overstate for engineers. Knockri, one company I work with at MaRS, has developed a system to improve the screening of job applicants using AI that deliberately ignores characteristics of race, gender and disability status. The company is based in Toronto, where more than 50% of the population is foreign-born, because it could easily access multicultural data sets to train its AI platform."

COVID-19 spurs adoption of AI-powered recruitment and screening tools

VentureBeat published an article about AI-powered candidate screening tools. We're glad to have Knockri highlighted as an A.I. based skills assessment helping companies and candidates stay connected during these tough times!

"According to a 2018 survey conducted by Knockri, an AI video-based skills assessment startup, companies using its screening suite see up to a 62% reduction in costs and a 68% drop in time when filling positions."

World Economic Forum report: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 4.0.

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Great to have Knockri contribute on such a timely WEF report alongside some really amazing folks living and breathing D&I. If you’re an HR leader looking to use tech to further diversity, equity and inclusion, this report is a must read 

Knockri's COO Maaz Rana - The Change Leadership Conference 2019

Snippet from the Change Leadership conference 2019. Foundational skills make us and our careers future proof, says Maaz Rana, COO and Co-Founder at Knockri.

HR Reporter: Using Ethical A.I. skills assessment tools for recruitment

Maaz Rana, co-founder and COO at Knockri talks with Canadian HR Reporter about the Knockri skills-assessment tool and how it can eliminate bias and boost diversity during recruiting process.

EQ: The new currency of COVID-19 hiring

Did you know that 59% of HR leaders are currently interviewing candidates over video, with the majority of this group planning to continue virtual interviews post-COVID.
Great to see Knockri's COO Maaz Rana interview for the HRD Canada Magazine about how interviewing has transformed over the past few months.

AI in Canada and Racism in Canada

Was great to be on Abrupt Future podcast and have an insightful conversation about racism in Canada, hiring and AI, and how AI technology can help to reduce biases.  
Check out the full podcast.

How to adjust your recruiting process in the wake of COVID-19

During these times, the way an employer interacts with a candidate is crucial. At Knockri, we’re helping customers deliver remote assessments so they can move candidates along the funnel, a lot faster. 

Betakit: Knockri raises $3million seed round

Toronto-based Knockri, which has developed an artificial intelligence-based (AI) video recruiting tool aimed to enable fairer hiring processes, has closed $3 million CAD in seed funding. This round brings the startup’s total funding to date to $3.4 million.

MaRS: Knockri, an AI-driven assessment tool, started with a job hunt.

The startup’s co-founder, Jahanzaib Ansari, had been applying to jobs and not hearing back, until Maaz Rana, a friend — and Ansari’s eventual co-founder — suggested changing the name on his resume. 

HRD: How COVID-19 is accelerating hiring automation

“As COVID-19 has undoubtedly accelerated transformation, organisations are more than ever looking to hire talent remotely,” said Jahanzaib Ansari, co-founder and CEO of Knockri, which has been helping companies of all sizes screen and hire talent.