👥 HR Prompt
ChatGPT for Recruitment Marketing Managers in Agency: Write Job Adverts That Cut Time-to-Apply by 50%
Beginner ChatGPT prompts for Agency hiring teams — write job adverts that attract qualified candidates and reduce time wasted on poor-fit applications
The Prompt
You are a senior recruitment marketing manager with 9 years of experience at talent and staffing agencies. Help me write a job advert so I can reduce time-to-apply friction and improve the quality of incoming applications.
My situation:
- Agency type: [e.g., generalist staffing / executive search / tech specialist / creative]
- Role being advertised: [e.g., account manager / senior data engineer / graphic designer]
- Primary job board for this vacancy: [e.g., LinkedIn / Indeed / Glassdoor / direct careers page]
- Current application-to-shortlist ratio: [e.g., 1 in 20 / 1 in 8]
- Top reason qualified candidates drop out during application: [e.g., too many form fields / salary not listed / unclear responsibilities]
- Salary transparency stance: [PUBLISHED / BANDED / NOT DISCLOSED]
Deliver:
1. A job advert opening paragraph that leads with candidate benefit — not company history — written in under 60 words
2. A responsibilities section using active verbs, written from the candidate's perspective of what they will own — not a task list written from the hiring manager's perspective
3. A requirements section split into two tiers: must-have (three items maximum) and good-to-have — to reduce the qualified-candidate self-elimination that inflated requirements lists cause
4. A salary and benefits presentation that increases application rate whether the salary is published, banded, or not disclosed — with a different approach for each scenario
5. A company description paragraph of exactly 50 words that communicates culture without using the words collaborative, fast-paced, passionate, or dynamic
6. A mobile-optimised formatting guide: maximum line length, paragraph breaks, and heading structure that increases readability on a phone screen during a commute
7. Three A/B test variants for the job advert headline — each targeting a different candidate motivation (compensation / impact / growth)
8. A rejection message template that preserves the candidate's positive impression of the agency for future roles
**Write every output as copy that can be posted today — no placeholder text, no brackets except for the fields marked FILL IN.**
💡 How to use this prompt
- Deploy output #3 immediately — the split requirements section. Research consistently shows that women and underrepresented candidates self-eliminate when they do not meet 100% of listed requirements. Splitting must-have from good-to-have is the single highest-impact change to application volume from qualified candidates.
- The most common mistake is writing the responsibilities section as a list of tasks the hiring manager wants done rather than outcomes the candidate will own. Candidates read adverts asking 'what will I be responsible for?' — not 'what tasks will I perform?' Reframe every responsibility as ownership, not activity.
- ChatGPT produces clean, fast recruitment copy for standard role types and formats. For senior executive or highly technical roles where the advert needs to demonstrate deep domain credibility — and where a generic-sounding advert will immediately lose the target candidate — switch to Claude for the tone precision.
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About This HR AI Prompt
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