Sameer Ranjan holds a US patent for an AI platform that measures the nine soft skills your resume never shows. He gives the resume about eighteen months before it becomes obsolete for most white collar roles.
He started as a mining engineer, graduated top of his class, worked a thousand feet underground with five hundred people under him, then walked away from the field entirely. Today he is CTO and co-founder of Catenate Corp and founder of Cognitive Sprints AI Labs.
In this conversation we get into why companies hire for job skills and lose people over soft skills, why an AI interview cannot do the one thing an interview exists to do, and why hiring managers get measurably worse at reading people after 1pm.
What we cover:
Why nobody has ever survived twenty years at a company for being a great coder
The three failure points in how companies select people today
Sympathy versus empathy, and why the difference kills AI interviewing
How MayaMaya builds a digital twin from behavioural data over time
Personality drift as an early warning system for burnout
Where the privacy line sits, and who owns the data
How to audit your own soft skills this week without any platform
Which soft skills map to healthcare, IT and sales
Why the resume has eighteen months left, and what replaces it
What organisations get wrong about measuring productivity
Chapters:
0:00 Hired on day one for skills, kept for years for personality
0:47 Who Sameer Ranjan is
1:58 From mining engineer to AI founder
3:58 What boardrooms decide vs what actually happens
7:37 People, process, technology: why hiring broke
10:18 Where companies get hiring wrong
12:58 Inside MayaMaya
14:57 Why adults are as confused as students
17:28 Can hiring managers actually read people?
18:52 Tracking personality over time and catching burnout
21:05 The privacy line
22:42 Beyond employee surveys
25:49 How to audit your own soft skills
28:21 Which soft skills fit which industry
32:41 Will resumes disappear?
35:25 What organizations get wrong about productivity
39:21 Quickfire round
41:15 Cognitive Sprints, MiraMira and money as a personality
Guest links:
Sameer Ranjan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sameerranjan009/
MayaMaya: https://mayamaya.us/
Catenate Corp: https://catenate.io/
Cognitive Sprints AI Labs: https://www.cognitive-sprints.in/ailabs
Resources from Santiago:
Free Productivity Assessment: https://links.santiagotacoronte.com/Productivity-Assessment
Free productivity tools and templates: https://links.santiagotacoronte.com/free-productivity-resources
Productivity newsletter: https://links.santiagotacoronte.com/Newsletter
Website: https://santiagotacoronte.com/
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