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Hiring is one of the most important parts of building a successful team or business, as well as one of the most challenging. It’s extremely time consuming, and the impact of a bad hiring decision can be catastrophic for a team. Whether you’re a seasoned CEO, a first-time startup founder, or a manager looking to make a key hire for your team, you can likely relate to just how daunting recruiting and hiring can be.

While plenty of specialized recruiting and HR AI tools are launching everyday, not everyone needs an entire specialized app. With just a ChatGPT pro subscription, you can leverage AI to assist with three key parts of the process to help save time and make better hiring decisions. Let’s dive in.

Drafting A Job Posting

Crafting the right job posting is more nuanced than it might seem. It’s a marketing tool to help attract and entice top candidates, and serves as your first impression to get someone excited about the potential job. When a great candidate reads a job posting that makes them start visualizing themselves in the role, you’re a step ahead of the competition.

So how can we give some personality to our job postings without spending hours on it? Let’s use ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis to write a compelling job post using our brand voice. First, we’re going to upload our positioning document (if you haven’t checked out last week’s post, start there!) to teach it about our company or the focus of the role. Then we can ask ChatGPT to draft our job description by referencing the positioning document, and sharing some bullet points about the responsibilities and requirements of the role. Your prompt could look something like this:

Evaluate resumes quickly and objectively

Once you post your job awesome listing, hopefully you’ll have hundreds of excited candidates submitting applications. This is a gift and a curse, as now you’ll have to read through hundreds of resumes! We can once again use ChatGPT to help speed up this process and do some pre-screening for us. A word of caution here, over-relying on AI can result in missing out on great candidates and so while using this method can augment your process, make sure to evaluate the results carefully.

Using the Advanced Data Analysis feature, we can upload a resume and ask ChatGPT to evaluate it against the job posting. Then ask it to make the following assessments to help me decide if I want to set up an interview:

Review these assessments, as well as any other materials the candidate provided, to see if you want to move the candidate to the next round.

Prepare interview questions

Finally, ChatGPT is great at helping prepare interview questions - especially ones that are personalized to the candidate to suss out if they’re a good fit, based on the assessment ChatGPT generated in the previous step. You likely have some general interview standards or categories of questions you ask. You could put those into the prompt, in the same conversation you were in to evaluate that candidate’s resume, and ask it to generate personalized questions given the categories you’re assessing. So for example, a prompt might look like:

With these 3 approaches, AI can help reduce some of the workload from recruiting and hiring, so you’re not starting from scratch each time. Let me know if you’ve found AI able to help accelerate your hiring process in the comments!