AI prompts for recruiters
Prompts for recruiters and hiring managers: inclusive job descriptions, sourcing messages, structured interview guides and scorecards, candidate feedback and offer communications. They help you hire consistently and fairly; keep the final judgement on every candidate with a person.
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49 prompts across 12 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.
- Build a structured interview guide and scorecardCompetency-based questions, scoring anchors, and a consistent scorecard.
- Create a new-hire onboarding planA 30-60-90 onboarding plan and welcome pack for a new employee.
- Create a fair work-sample exercise and rubric for candidatesA realistic, time-boxed exercise based on the actual job, with a level-by-level scoring rubric and follow-up questions.
- Write a clear offer letter for my chosen candidateA warm, accurate offer letter and cover email, plus a checklist for everything between the candidate's yes and day one.
- Write a candidate submittal summary for the hiring managerA concise, evidence-based candidate write-up that helps a busy hiring manager decide quickly whether to interview.
- Pitch my brokerage to an agent I'm recruitingA recruiting pitch and comparison that shows an agent their real net income at my brokerage versus their current one.
- Handle a candidate's counteroffer or competing offerA plan to understand and respond to a counteroffer or rival offer without overpaying or losing a strong candidate.
- Plan a hiring event or job fair that produces hiresA complete plan for a hiring event or job fair, from promotion and on-the-spot screening to follow-up within 48 hours.
- Handle salary expectation questions early in the hiring processTalk tracks for discussing pay early, so recruiters align expectations without losing candidates or breaking pay laws.
- Write a truck driver job ad that attracts qualified driversA driver recruiting ad that leads with pay, home time, routes, and equipment, the details drivers actually compare, plus a screening checklist.
- Design a volunteer role, recruitment post, and onboarding planA clear volunteer position description, a recruiting message, screening steps, and a first-month plan that keeps volunteers coming back.
Career & Job Search prompts
- Tailor my resume to a job descriptionAligns your resume to a specific job, honestly, and shows the gaps.
- Message hiring managers and network for a jobShort, personal messages to hiring managers, recruiters, and contacts that get responses.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
Content & Social Media prompts
- Research a podcast guest and write interview questionsA guest briefing and a set of deep, open-ended interview questions built from the guest's public work, sequenced for a natural conversation.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
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.
Learning & Teaching prompts
- Prepare SME interview questions to capture expert know-howA structured interview plan that pulls the real decisions, mistakes, and shortcuts out of a subject matter expert, not just theory.
Data & Analysis prompts
- 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
- 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.
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.
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.
Research & Summaries prompts
- Write a semi-structured interview guide for a research studyA research interview protocol with aligned questions, neutral probes, and timing, mapped to my research questions.
Prompts for other roles and tasks
- Marketers
- Founders
- Managers
- HR professionals
- Sales teams
- Developers
- Analysts & consultants
- Product managers
- Legal & compliance teams
- Finance professionals
- Teachers & students
- Project managers
- Customer service teams
- Content writers & copywriters
- Small business owners
- Executives & senior leaders
- Researchers & academics
- Fiction writers & poets
- Real estate & renting
- Resumes & cover letters
- Business plans
- SEO
- Product descriptions & online stores
- Writing emails
- Job interviews
- Summarizing documents & meetings
- Excel & spreadsheets
- Making decisions
- Social media posts
- Travel planning
- Parents & families