The Ultimate ChatGPT Prompt Library for Recruitment

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Create a recruitment strategy according to this defined structure for senior management
Act as a chief human resources officer (CHRO) for X company in the [insert sector + add more context as applicable]. Develop a recruitment strategy that includes hiring Forecasting/hiring Planning/hiring Analytics and supports Recruitment Productivity/Hiring Effectiveness/Hiring Efficiency. Structure the strategy under these 4 elements: 1. The strategy argument: where you explain your reading of the market, your plan, and why you think it will work. 2. The strategy statement: a short practical statement of the strategy in a nutshell. 3. The implications: a list of the key things we need to do to execute the strategy. 4. The execution flow: a suggested order and prioritisation of these actions.
Create a recruitment strategy according to this defined structure for senior management
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Hiring Strategy
Use ChatGPT for exit interview analysis
First gather all the answers (notes or transcripts) given to the same question for all participants in a Google doc or your preferred desktop app. Prompt 1: The below transcripts contain answers to` [interview question]. Can you create a bullet list of similarities and differences for me? Prompt 2: Can you build a table for me based on the given data containing employee names, their department, their role, their wage, their years at the company, the reason of leave (between 1-6 words), overall experience (1-6 words) Training satisfaction (yes or no), what satisfied them the most (1-6 words), treatment by supervisor (1-6 words), and recognition of work (1-6 words).
Use ChatGPT for exit interview analysis
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Hiring Strategy
Recruiter Productivity
Suggest the best job title and increase your job application rate
Act as a recruiter with 20 years experience. From this [insert job title] and [insert job description] and [location] research and suggest the best title to use in a job advert to get the most job applications. In your research take into consideration alternative ways in which people may enter their role title in their LinkedIn profiles. Please also take into consideration SEO job titles that would increase the application rate. Output: Make one job title suggestion based on this research that will get the most applications. Do not include any other information.
Suggest the best job title and increase your job application rate
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Job Advertising
Create Boolean search strings
Create a Boolean search string for LinkedIn to identify a [insert role e.g. financial analyst] with experience in [insert experience e.g. large multi national financial institutions]. Ideally, the financial analyst should also have experience in the Fintech domain and be based in [insert location eg London]. Also include alternative ways in which people may enter their experience as a financial analyst in their LinkedIn profiles, this may be synonyms, acronyms and additional terms competitors include.
Create Boolean search strings
David Banaghan
Director of Sales
Candidate Sourcing & Assessment
Recruiter Productivity
Motivate your team to reach recruitment goals.
Act as an experienced hiring manager. I want you to act as a motivational coach for a team of recruiters. The goal is for them to hit target. Put together words that inspire action and make people feel empowered to do something beyond their abilities. You can talk about any topics but the aim is to make sure what you say resonates with your audience, giving them an incentive to work on their goals and strive for better possibilities. My first request is "I need a speech about how everyone should never give up and keep going in order to meet Q1 recruitment target.
Motivate your team to reach recruitment goals.
Caroline Gleeson
Director of Operations
Hiring Strategy
Create a talent acquisition teams OKR strategy
Generate a talent acquisition teams OKR (Objectives and key results) strategy for one year that encompass their goals as follows: 1. Source top class talent for the team 2. Generate results that are efficient and effective.
Create a talent acquisition teams OKR strategy
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Hiring Strategy
Build your profile in the HR industry with a thought leadership strategy
Act as a chief human resources officer (CHRO). Develop a thought leadership strategy that positions you as an [Industry Expert/Influencer/Visionary] and promotes [Industry Change/Innovation/Disruption].
Build your profile in the HR industry with a thought leadership strategy
David Banaghan
Director of Sales
Hiring Strategy
Recruiter Productivity
Create a recruitment operations strategy
Act as a chief human resources officer (CHRO). Develop a recruitment operations strategy that includes [hiring Forecasting/hiring Planning/hiring Analytics] and supports [Recruitment Productivity/Hiring Effectiveness/Hiring Efficiency].
Create a recruitment operations strategy
Caroline Gleeson
Director of Operations
Hiring Strategy
Write a job advert by company and role
Act as a recruiter with 20 years experience. Create a recruitment ad for the [insert company url] looking for a [insert role]. Write it in 1,000 characters maximum. Ensure the title is max 35 characters (so it fits on a smart phone screen). Research and suggest the best title to use in a job advert to get the most job applications. In your research take into consideration alternative ways in which people may enter their role title in their LinkedIn profiles. Write in inclusive language. Write in convincing language.
Write a job advert by company and role
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Job Advertising
Recruiter content writing prompts
Act as a journalist. You will report on breaking news, write feature stories and opinion pieces, develop research techniques for verifying information and uncovering sources, adhere to journalistic ethics, and deliver accurate reporting using your own distinct style. My first suggestion request is "I need help writing an article about the topic of quiet quitting.”
Recruiter content writing prompts
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Recruitment Marketing
Write LinkedIn recruitment ad campaigns
Act as an experienced copywriter. Using a structure which includes a hook, body, and call to action, generate a 10 LinkedIn ads for why people should start a career in a company called [insert company name + url], a SaaS company who's values [insert values e.g. fun & friendly, transparency, hard working and innovative]. The employer brand tag line is [insert tag line].
Write LinkedIn recruitment ad campaigns
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Recruitment Marketing
Make a CRM Campaign plan for my company
Make a CRM Campaign plan for my company: My Company: (Enter Company Name) : $50,000 Campaign: Promotion of new employer brand USP launch I want you to make a table with the following information: the text before <> is the header, the text after <> is the information to be filled Target Cohort <> Suggest different cohorts that are common in the [insert industry] basis on existing customer data & common cohorts Cohort data points <> Write detailed data points to identify & segment the target cohort Cohort Persona <> Write the persona of each cohort in a different column Budget <> Divide each channel budget based on the different cohort Start date <> 1st January 2023 End date <> 31st December 2023 Trigger <> A total of 3 trigger campaigns is to be sent to each cohort on each channel (Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp Email, SMS) mention channel & number of days between each channel Content Type <> Write 1 liner content type for each trigger”
Make a CRM Campaign plan for my company
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Hiring Strategy
Recruitment Marketing
Conduct salary benchmarking by role and location
Act as a recruiter and researcher with 20 years experience. From this [job title] and [location] research and find the average pay for this job. Output: From this research conclude with a suggested salary range. Display salary results in a column format with the columns low, mid and high values based on this research. Do not include any other information.”
Conduct salary benchmarking by role and location
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Candidate Sourcing & Assessment
Recruiter Productivity
Job Advertising
Write candidate summaries or write ups
Act like a recruiter with 10 years experience. Summarise a candidate I will provide you with for a hiring manager. Use convincing language, formal tone and keep it to approximately 400 words. Candidate: [Insert CV].
Write candidate summaries or write ups
David Banaghan
Director of Sales
Recruiter Productivity
Create a candidate nurturing strategy
Act as a chief human resources officer / CHRO. Develop a candidate engagement strategy that includes [Candidate Nurturing/Candidate Relationship Management/Engaging with Passive Candidates] to build relationships with potential candidates.
Create a candidate nurturing strategy
Eoghan Scully
New Business Sales Director
Hiring Strategy
Extract interview questions from a job description
Act as a recruiter with 20 years experience. From this [insert job description] and [insert job title] extract a list of interview questions. Please list 5 suggested questions under the following headings: Behavioural Questions, Situational judgement Questions, Competency Questions, Brainteasers.
Extract interview questions from a job description
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Recruiter Productivity
Candidate Sourcing & Assessment
Hiring manager objection handling prompt
Create a dialog to help a hiring manager deal with a chief human resources officer (CHRO) unrealistic hiring expectations. When preparing this dialog please take into account the following: In London there are more than 5000 Product Managers. However only 500 of them are with more than 10 years of experience and only 200 in the Fintech industry, which is our focus area. The hiring manager should also point out to the CHRO that the situation becomes very bleak when we need them to have 2 years of experience in an international scale up with 10+ million user per month.
Hiring manager objection handling prompt
David Banaghan
Director of Sales
Recruiter Productivity
Create a recruitment strategy based on an industry/role
Act like an experienced recruiter and researcher. Create a hiring market outlook for recruiting using the following inputs: [insert sector] and [insert job title] and [insert location] for this current year. Output: Put results in table format and make recruitment strategy suggestions based on the following inputs: recruitment channel suggestions, best jobs boards to use, social media channels, Include sources.
Create a recruitment strategy based on an industry/role
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Hiring Strategy
Candidate Sourcing & Assessment
Influence management as a CHRO, to impact strategy change
Find, summarise in bullet points, and cite 5 sources with data to back up argument on [insert argument e.g. “Why companies should hire internally over external hires in 2023.”]
Influence management as a CHRO, to impact strategy change
Caroline Gleeson
Director of Operations
Hiring Strategy
Create steelman arguments for a CHRO on a topic to influence change
I want you to act as a debater and CHRO. I will provide you with some topics related to current events and your task is to research both sides of the debates, create a steelman argument, present valid arguments for each side, refute opposing points of view, and draw persuasive conclusions based on evidence. Your goal is to help people come away from the discussion with increased knowledge and insight into the topic at hand. My first request is "I want an opinion piece about the value of hiring internally versus going to hire externally.
Create steelman arguments for a CHRO on a topic to influence change
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Hiring Strategy
Create candidate summaries based on this structure
You're an experienced recruiter with exceptional analytical and summarising skills. Create a structured summary of a candidate based on the following raw notes from their interview. Please organize the information into a clear and concise summary that includes the candidate's strengths, weaknesses, relevant experience, and overall fit for the role. Use the following structure for the summary: # Title: Candidate Summary ## TL;DR: A concise overview of the candidate's performance and fit for the role, mentioning key strengths and weaknesses. ## Introduction: A brief introduction to the candidate, including their current role, experience, salary expectations. ## Candidate Strengths: List the key strengths of the candidate, include specific examples from the raw notes to support each strength. ## Candidate Weaknesses: List the areas where the candidate could improve or may not meet the job requirements. Provide specific examples from the raw notes to support each weakness. ## Fit for the Role: Evaluate the candidate's overall fit for the position, considering their strengths, weaknesses, and relevant experience. ## Conclusion: Provide a final assessment of the candidate's suitability for the role, including any recommendations for further evaluation or next steps in the hiring process. Here are the raw notes: [Insert your notes
Create candidate summaries based on this structure
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Candidate Sourcing & Assessment
Engage passive non responsive candidates
Act as a recruiter. Write an email to an unresponsive candidate. Outline the benefits and use a convincing tone. Use industry terminology. Keep it short, do not use unnecessary words. Be friendly and human in tone. Add context, this candidate had 10 years of experience in the telecommunications sector. He also has 5 years of experience in PHP and is applying for a Sr. PHP position in the company called Datadog in Dublin Ireland.
Engage passive non responsive candidates
Eoghan Scully
New Business Sales Director
Job Advertising
Recruitment Marketing
Write a candidate outreach email related to a job spec
I will give you a job description and you will write an email trying to engage the candidate. Begin with their potential interests in career growth, then present the job opportunity. Outline the benefits and use a convincing tone. Use industry terminology. Keep it short, do not use unnecessary words. Be friendly and human in tone. Use call-to-action, add a sense of urgency. Job: [insert description here]
Write a candidate outreach email related to a job spec
David Banaghan
Director of Sales
Job Advertising
Recruitment Marketing
Assess candidate strengths & weaknesses to a job spec
Act as an experienced hiring manager. I will give you a job specification + a candidate profile. Weigh the strengths and weaknesses of this candidate as compared to the job specification. Job Description: [Copy & paste job description], candidate profile: [Copy & paste candidate information]. Output: a table format under headings strengths and weaknesses.
Assess candidate strengths & weaknesses to a job spec
Caroline Gleeson
Director of Operations
Job Advertising
Recruiter Productivity
Brainstorm interview question prompts by role
Act like an experienced recruiter. Brainstorm 10 commands I would submit to a large language model to have the model generate varied questions to ask a potential candidate for [insert company e.g. Healthcare Business], looking to recruit for [insert role e.g. CFO]. Include competency, behavioural questions and situational judgement tests.
Brainstorm interview question prompts by role
David Banaghan
Director of Sales
Candidate Sourcing & Assessment
Translate candidate outreach emails
Act as an English translator, spelling corrector and improver. I will write in any language and you will detect the language, translate it and answer in the corrected and improved version of my text, in English. I want you to replace my simplified words and sentences with more beautiful and elegant, high level English phrasing words and sentences. {Copy & Paste outreach message].
Translate candidate outreach emails
David Banaghan
Director of Sales
Candidate Sourcing & Assessment
Create an employer branding strategy
Act as a chief human resources officer. Develop an employer branding strategy that includes [Positioning Your Company as a Great Place to Work/Highlighting Employee Success Stories/Creating Compelling Job Descriptions] to attract top talent.
Create an employer branding strategy
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Hiring Strategy
Recruitment Marketing
Create employer branding campaigns to attract talent
Act as a highly experienced recruitment marketer. Generate an employer branding campaign that includes [Building a Social Media Presence/Creating Employee Advocacy Programs/Hosting Employee Events] and supports [Candidate Attraction/Brand Awareness/Relationship Building].
Create employer branding campaigns to attract talent
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Recruitment Marketing
Create a recruiter training plan
Act as a recruitment leader with 20 years experience. Develop a recruiter coaching program that focuses on [Recruitment Skills/recruitment Process/Performance Improvement] and includes [1:1 Coaching/Group Coaching/Peer Coaching].
Create a recruiter training plan
Eoghan Scully
New Business Sales Director
Hiring Strategy
Create a hiring process optimisation plan
Create a hiring process optimisation plan that includes [Eliminating Hiring Bias/Improving Candidate Communication/Providing Feedback to Candidates] and supports [Candidate Experience/Performance Evaluation/Performance Management].
Create a hiring process optimisation plan
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Hiring Strategy
Get keywords for a job description
Act like a researcher and SEO expert. Give me a list of keywords for a job description I will provide you with that I can use to find a candidate for the position. Act like an expert in this field, include additional keywords that may not be in the job description. [insert job spec].
Get keywords for a job description
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Job Advertising
Recruiter Productivity
Give career guidance to a candidate
Act as a career counselor. I will provide you with an individual looking for guidance in their professional life, and your task is to help them determine what careers they are most suited for based on their skills, interests and experience. You should also conduct research into the various options available, explain the job market trends in different industries and advice on which qualifications would be beneficial for pursuing particular fields. My first request is to advise an experienced software engineer on how to move from management level into a director c-suite level candidate.
Give career guidance to a candidate
Caroline Gleeson
Director of Operations
Candidate Sourcing & Assessment
Hiring Strategy
Develop a networking strategy
Act as a chief human resources officer (CHRO). Develop a networking strategy that includes [Connecting with Industry Professionals/Joining LinkedIn Groups/Participating in Industry Events] to expand my network. Take into account my location [insert location].
Develop a networking strategy
Eoghan Scully
New Business Sales Director
Recruiter Productivity
Hiring Strategy
Conduct hiring market research
Act like a highly experienced researcher. Create a hiring market outlook for recruiting in the [insert industry] in [location] for Q1 2023. Include in your analysis, recruitment challenges, industry trends, market trends, economic outlook. Provide links to sources.
Conduct hiring market research
David Banaghan
Director of Sales
Recruiter Productivity
Hiring Strategy
Write a candidate outreach email related to job spec
Act as an expert recruiter and copywriter. I will give you a job description and you will write an email trying to engage the candidate. Begin with their potential interests in career growth, then present the job opportunity. Outline the benefits and use a convincing tone. Use industry terminology. Keep it short, do not use unnecessary words. Be friendly and human in tone. Use call-to-action, add a sense of urgency. Job: [insert here]
Write a candidate outreach email related to job spec
Eoghan Scully
New Business Sales Director
Candidate Sourcing & Assessment
Create empathetic and sincere candidate rejection emails
Act as a recruiter. Compose an email to inform a candidate that, after careful consideration, you will not be extending an offer for the job they interviewed for. Express appreciation for their interest in the role, acknowledge their strengths and positive qualities according to their CV I will provide you with. CV: [insert cv]. Make it clear that the choice was not a reflection of their abilities, but rather a matter of finding the best fit for the specific requirements of the role. Lastly, convey your best wishes for their future career endeavors. Remember to use a tone that is sincere, respectful, and supportive. The goal is to leave the candidate feeling valued and encouraged, even in the face of disappointment.
Create empathetic and sincere candidate rejection emails
David Banaghan
Director of Sales
Recruiter Productivity
Candidate Sourcing & Assessment
Create a boolean search string from a skills list
Act as an expert researcher and recruiter. Generate a list of certifications that nurse practitioners might have in the UK. Create a boolean search string from this list. Output: Separate each one with a comma.
Create a boolean search string from a skills list
David Banaghan
Director of Sales
Candidate Sourcing & Assessment
Create a memorable personalised outreach message based on a candidates experience
Act as an expert copywriter. Create a funny, memorable, personalised recruitment outreach message opening based on this candidates experience [Insert experience]. Output: No longer than 2 sentences.
Create a memorable personalised outreach message based on a candidates experience
David Banaghan
Director of Sales
Candidate Sourcing & Assessment
Research job boards by role
Act like an experienced recruiter and researcher. Provide me with a list of specialised and niche job boards in which I could post a remote vacancy for a [insert role] in [insert location].
Research job boards by role
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Job Advertising
Create a ChatGPT for recruitment guide for staff
Act as an recruitment professional and copywriter. Create a beginner's guide to using ChatGPT as a recruitment and HR professional. Topics should include prompts, priming, and personas. Include examples where necessary. The guide should be no longer than 1,000 words.
Create a ChatGPT for recruitment guide for staff
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Hiring Strategy
Create a DEI training programme
Act as a HR leader. Develop a DEI training program and roadmap that focuses on [Awareness/Education/Action] and promotes [Values/Goals]. Outlines [Action Items/Goals/Targets] and includes [Metrics/Accountability Measures].
Create a DEI training programme
Caroline Gleeson
Director of Operations
Hiring Strategy
Recruiter LinkedIn post prompt
Act like an experienced hiring manager working in the [insert industry]. Give me 10 sample LinkedIn topics I could talk about to engage my audience. The end goal is to nurture and tweak the interest of potential candidates to work at my company [insert url] in the future.
Recruiter LinkedIn post prompt
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Recruiter Productivity
Develop a hiring process optimisation strategy
Develop a hiring process optimization strategy that includes [Streamlining the Hiring Process/Measuring Hiring Metrics/Identifying Process Bottlenecks] to improve recruitment efficiency.
Develop a hiring process optimisation strategy
Caroline Gleeson
Director of Operations
Hiring Strategy
Recruiter Productivity
Create hiring commentary for management based on your own hiring KPI's and results
Feed ChatGPT the statistics and key KPI's you want to acknowledge. Prompt: Act as a researcher and copy writer. Based on these hiring results for [insert company] in [insert location] for [insert time period] and [insert industry] create a detailed hiring report and commentary for senior management based on the results.
Create hiring commentary for management based on your own hiring KPI's and results
Caroline Gleeson
Director of Operations
Recruiter Productivity
Hiring Strategy
Improve Job Description
Act as a recruiter and expert copywriter. From this job description, explain how it can be improved to increase application rates [insert job description]
Improve Job Description
David Banaghan
Director of Sales
Job Advertising
Write a job advertisement according to a personality type
[Prompt 1] Describe the INTP personality type according to Myers Briggs and how to create an outreach email that would engage this personality type. [Prompt 2] Act like a recruiter. Write a candidate outreach email for a software engineer skilled in python, make it suitable for an INTP personality. Do not include reference to INTP in the email.
Write a job advertisement according to a personality type
Orla Doyle
Marketing Director
Job Advertising
Recruiter Productivity

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