AI prompts for HR professionals
Prompts for HR and talent teams: job descriptions, structured interview questions, onboarding plans, policy explanations, engagement surveys and difficult employee conversations, written with fairness and clarity in mind. Check anything policy-related against your local employment law.
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179 prompts across 21 topics. Each works in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any AI chat: open it, fill in the blanks and copy.
HR & Hiring prompts
- Write an inclusive job descriptionA clear, inclusive job description and success profile that attracts the right candidates.
- Create a resume screening rubricObjective screening criteria and a shortlist rationale that reduce bias.
- Build a structured interview guide and scorecardCompetency-based questions, scoring anchors, and a consistent scorecard.
- Draft an HR policy or handbook sectionClear, fair policy drafts for the handbook — leave, remote work, conduct, data, and more.
- Analyze an employee engagement survey and plan actionsTurns survey results into themes, priorities, and an action plan.
- Create an employee development planA personalized growth plan with goals, experiences, learning, and support.
- Prepare a performance review with calibrated feedbackEvidence-based review drafts and calibrated, specific feedback.
- Analyze team skills gapsA capability matrix showing gaps between current and needed skills, and how to close them.
- Review succession and bench strengthIdentifies successors for key roles, readiness, and development actions.
- Create a new-hire onboarding planA 30-60-90 onboarding plan and welcome pack for a new employee.
- Analyze attrition risk and recommend retention actionsFinds who is likely to leave and why, and what to do about it.
- Write an employee announcement or internal messageClear, human internal communications — changes, news, policies, and benefits.
Career & Job Search prompts
- Tailor my resume to a job descriptionAligns your resume to a specific job, honestly, and shows the gaps.
- Write my self-assessment for a performance reviewAn evidence-based self-review that shows your impact without overselling.
- Message hiring managers and network for a jobShort, personal messages to hiring managers, recruiters, and contacts that get responses.
- Write a resume skills section that matches the jobBuilds a focused, honest skills section grouped by category and ordered by what the job description asks for.
- Get a recruiter-style critique of my resumeGets a frank, prioritised critique of your resume from a recruiter's six-second-scan point of view, with specific rewrites.
- Prepare for a job interviewLikely questions, STAR answers from your experience, company research, and questions to ask.
- Check how well I fit a job — before I applyAn honest fit assessment: matches, gaps, red flags, and how to position yourself.
- Write thank-you notes after each interview roundShort, specific follow-up notes for each interviewer that reinforce your fit and address any weak moment.
- Research a company before my interviewA one-page interview briefing on the company, team, and role so you can answer and ask questions with insight.
- Follow up after interviews when I haven't heard backWell-timed follow-up messages for silence, delays, or rejection, including how to ask for feedback.
- Review my portfolio the way a hiring manager wouldA 30-second first impression, a scorecard against what hiring managers check, and the top fixes ranked.
- Prepare for a system design interviewBuilds a practice plan and a worked approach for system design questions, tailored to the level and company type you're targeting.
Legal & Compliance prompts
- Review my hiring process for bias and compliance risksA review of job ads, screening, interviews, and decisions for bias and common legal risks, with practical fixes.
- Rewrite a compliance policy so employees can actually follow itTurns a dense compliance policy into clear rules, decision points, and examples, with a mapping so no requirement is lost.
- Draft a litigation hold notice employees will actually followWrites a clear preservation notice telling custodians exactly what to keep, where it lives, and what not to do.
- Handle a data subject access request from start to finishGives a step-by-step plan, search checklist, exemption review, and response letter for responding to a personal data access request on time.
- Write a machine-specific lockout/tagout procedureA step-by-step energy control procedure for one machine, listing every energy source, isolation point, and verification step.
- Assess a conflict of interest disclosure and recommend safeguardsEvaluates an employee's conflict of interest disclosure against policy and recommends whether to approve, mitigate, or decline it.
- Audit HR files and processes for compliance gapsCreates a tailored HR compliance audit checklist and prioritizes the gaps you find by risk.
- Run a user access review and flag risky permissionsCompares who has access against job need and flags excess rights, orphaned accounts, and segregation-of-duties conflicts.
- Write an acceptable use policy employees will readDrafts a plain-language IT acceptable use policy covering devices, accounts, data, AI tools, and monitoring.
Leadership & Management prompts
- Plan the roles and hiring order for a new teamWhich roles a new team needs, which to hire first and why, and how to cover gaps while the team ramps up.
- Justify additional headcount for my operations teamA data-backed headcount request showing workload, capacity gap, alternatives considered, and the cost of not hiring.
- Plan the conversation with an employee whose performance has to changeA structured manager's plan for a performance or behavior conversation: facts, expectations, support, consequences, and follow-up.
- Plan the onboarding of a new executive who reports to meA 90-day onboarding plan for a new senior leader, covering context, relationships, early wins, and check-ins.
- Lead the executive response in the first 72 hours of a crisisA structured crisis response plan covering facts, decisions, stakeholders, and communications for a CEO in the first three days.
- Build a board skills matrix and recruit new board membersA board composition analysis that shows skill, network, and lived-experience gaps, plus a recruitment and orientation plan.
- Explain a pay or promotion decision to a disappointed employeePrepares an honest, specific explanation of a pay or promotion outcome with a clear path forward and talking points.
- Find KPIs that conflict or could encourage the wrong behaviorStress-tests a set of KPIs for conflicts between teams and for gaming or unintended behavior, then suggests guardrail metrics and fixes.
Projects & Operations prompts
- Create an employee offboarding checklist and timelineProduces a complete offboarding checklist by owner and day for voluntary or involuntary exits, so nothing is missed.
- Turn sales handoff notes into a customer onboarding briefConverts messy deal notes into a clear brief so customer success starts onboarding knowing what was promised and why the customer bought.
- Create a client onboarding kit for my freelance businessA welcome email, intake questionnaire, and kickoff agenda so every new client starts smoothly.
- Plan a workplace safety week that employees engage withA day-by-day safety week program with themes, activities, a kickoff script, and ways to measure whether the message landed.
- Build an offboarding checklist that removes every accessCreates a role-specific checklist to revoke accounts, devices, and data access when someone leaves, with timing.
- Create a role-based IT setup checklist for new hiresBuilds a provisioning checklist per role so every new starter gets the right accounts, devices, and access on day one.
- Create a new supplier onboarding checklist and questionnaireA risk-based onboarding pack with the documents, checks, and approvals to collect before a new supplier gets a first PO.
Data & Analysis prompts
- Check whether my KPIs measure activity or real value, and fix themSorts your KPIs into activity, output, and outcome measures, flags vanity metrics, and redesigns the set around the outcomes that matter.
- Design a data model for HR reporting and analyticsA warehouse design for HR data with effective dating, clear grain, agreed metric definitions, and access controls for sensitive fields.
- Find the activation metric that predicts customer retentionA method to identify the early actions that separate retained users from churned ones, and how to drive them.
- Analyze my recruiting funnel and find where candidates drop offA funnel analysis of pass-through rates, time in stage, and sources that pinpoints bottlenecks and what to fix first.
Email & Workplace Communication prompts
- Explain a strategy pivot to employees, customers, and investorsA coordinated communication plan and drafts for each audience when the company changes direction.
- Explain benefits changes to employees in plain languageTurns benefits plan documents into a clear employee explanation with examples, FAQs, and actions they need to take.
- Reply to an employee who reported a phishing emailWrites a short, encouraging reply to someone who reported a suspicious email, tailored to whether they clicked.
- Write a weekly hiring update for hiring managersA short, scannable weekly status update on open roles, pipeline, blockers, and the decisions needed from hiring managers.
Writing & Editing prompts
- Write an onboarding guide for someone joining my project midstreamA concise guide that gets a new team member productive fast: context, decisions made, people, tools, and first-week tasks.
- Turn a policy or process document into an employee FAQAnticipates the questions employees and new starters will actually ask about a policy or process and answers them from the document.
- Write an annual letter to shareholders or stakeholdersA candid annual letter covering the year's results, lessons, mistakes, and priorities, written in the CEO's own voice.
Thinking & Decisions prompts
- Decide how to respond to an offer to acquire my companyA clear-headed framework for evaluating inbound acquisition interest, your alternatives, and how to reply without losing leverage.
- Build a downturn playbook with trigger points and pre-agreed actionsA staged plan linking specific warning signals to pre-agreed actions, so the leadership team acts early instead of debating under pressure.
- Decide whether to approve a SaaS app an employee requestedReviews a requested cloud app's data access, permissions, and vendor security to recommend approve, approve with conditions, or decline.
Meetings prompts
- Run an interview debrief that ends in a clear hiring decisionA structured panel debrief plan that consolidates scorecards, reduces bias, and produces a documented hire or no-hire decision.
- Prepare for a first meeting with a new business leader I supportPrepares an HR business partner for a first meeting with a client leader, with questions, an agenda, and a follow-up plan.
- Run a role intake meeting with a hiring managerAn intake agenda and question set that turns a vague hiring request into a clear, agreed search plan.
Customer Support prompts
- Plan a customer onboarding kickoff callAn agenda, discovery questions, and talking points for a first onboarding call that sets clear goals and next steps.
- Write an onboarding email sequence for a new customer's usersA 30-day email sequence that gets new users from first login to regular use of the features that matter.
Finance & Accounting prompts
- Review employee expense reports against our expense policyChecks expense reports line by line against policy and tax rules, then drafts clear, consistent responses for rejections.
- Build a headcount plan with fully loaded employee costsA role-by-role hiring plan that converts start dates and salaries into monthly fully loaded cost.
Content & Social Media prompts
- Create an employee advocacy kit with ready-to-share postsA simple kit that makes it easy for employees to share company news in their own voice, with guidelines.
- Write recruiting posts for LinkedIn that attract candidatesAuthentic hiring posts and employer brand content that show what the job is really like and bring in qualified applicants.
Product & UX Design prompts
- Write a screener to recruit the right research participantsBuilds a short screener survey that finds the right people for interviews or tests and filters out poor fits and professional testers.
- Design a first-run onboarding flow for my appPlans an onboarding flow that gets new users to their first moment of value fast, with steps to cut, defer, or personalize.
Working with AI prompts
- List what company data I must not enter into an AI toolA clear red, amber, and green guide to which of your work data can go into a specific AI tool, and on what conditions.
Presentations & Public Speaking prompts
- Turn my presentation into a town hall version for all employeesAdapts a leadership or project deck into a plain-language town hall version employees understand and trust.
Sales prompts
- Write a corporate sponsorship proposal with benefit tiersA sponsorship pitch that ties a company's goals to your event or program, with priced tiers and clear deliverables.
Learning & Teaching prompts
- Design a training program for new people managersBuilds a practical new-manager development program covering core people skills, HR essentials, and practice-based sessions.
Research & Summaries prompts
- Build a talent market brief for a role before the search startsA briefing on talent supply, competitors, pay signals, and candidate motivations to set realistic hiring expectations.
Productivity & Planning prompts
- Prioritize my open requisitions and plan my recruiting weekA ranked view of my open roles and a realistic weekly plan that balances sourcing, interviews, and admin.
Business Strategy & Startups prompts
- Work out how many sales reps I need next yearA sales capacity model that shows how many reps to hire, when, and what the plan looks like after ramp and attrition.
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- Excel & spreadsheets
- Making decisions
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