Tips for HR
- Matthew Buskell
- 5 days ago
- 2 min read
📌 TLDR Summary
Transform your HR operations with five quick AI wins: speed up candidate sourcing, automate onboarding videos, synthesize training materials, clarify policy queries, and instantly spot salary anomalies in your data.
🚀 Talent Acquisition / Recruiting
- Tool: Standard LLMs (Gemini / ChatGPT)
- The Fix: Manual outreach is generic and time-consuming. Use AI to craft personalized, bias-free messages that reference specific candidate skills to double your response rates.
- How to do it:
Act as a recruiter. Draft a 3-sentence outreach email to a [Role] candidate. Reference their experience with [Specific Project/Skill] and frame the role as an opportunity to [Key Value Prop]. Keep the tone professional but warm and inclusive.
🚀 Employee Onboarding
- Tool: Google Vids
- The Fix: New hires often feel overwhelmed by text-heavy manuals. Quickly create a visually engaging welcome video to streamline key processes and boost early culture integration.
- How to do it:
- Open Google Vids and select a "New Hire Welcome" template.
- Upload your existing internal onboarding documentation or slide deck into the project.
- Use the AI editor to auto-generate the scene flow and narration, then polish with branding elements before sharing.
🚀 Learning & Development
- Tool: NotebookLM
- The Fix: Transforming scattered internal PDFs or training documents into a cohesive curriculum is slow. Use AI to synthesize these sources into instant study guides or interactive quizzes.
- How to do it:
- Create a new Notebook in NotebookLM and upload all your training PDFs and policy documents as source material.
- Once processed, use the chat feature to ask the AI to "Create a 5-question quiz based on these materials" or "Generate a summary study guide."
- Review and export the content directly into your LMS or training communications.
🚀 Employee Relations & Policy Guidance
- Tool: Gemini Enterprise (Workspace)
- The Fix: Answering repetitive policy questions drains HR bandwidth and leads to inconsistencies. Access your secure, internal documentation instantly to provide accurate, real-time answers to employee queries.
- How to do it:
Act as an HR Advisor. Using our company's internal policy documents, answer the following employee question: "[Insert Question, e.g., 'What is our policy on remote work for parents?']". Maintain a professional, supportive tone and cite the specific policy section.
🚀 People Analytics & Compensation
- Tool: Google Sheets with Embedded AI
- The Fix: Manually scanning salary data for inequities or trends in large sheets is prone to human error. Use AI to instantly detect anomalies, compare benchmarks, and visualize pay gaps.
- How to do it:
- Highlight your compensation dataset in Google Sheets.
- Click the "Help me organize" or "Help me analyze" AI button in the side panel.
- Input a prompt like "Identify any salary outliers where pay is significantly below the median for the 'Senior Engineer' role" to trigger instant data insights.

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