Tips for HR
- Matthew Buskell
- Jun 5
- 2 min read
📌 TLDR Summary
Automate your HR workflow with these 5 AI power-ups. We cover instant resume screening, automated training generation, polished policy drafting, and data-driven pay insights to reclaim your strategic time.
🚀 Talent Acquisition / Recruiting
- Tool: Google AI Studio
- The Fix: Manual resume parsing is a bottleneck. This AI trick compares applicants against your specific job criteria in seconds to identify the strongest potential matches.
- How to do it:
1. Open Google AI Studio and paste your Job Description into the "System Instructions" field.
2. Paste the candidate's resume text into the prompt window.
3. Use this prompt: "Evaluate this candidate against the job description. Assign a 1-5 score for each core competency and list any critical skill gaps."
🚀 Employee Onboarding
- Tool: Google Vids
- The Fix: Onboarding explanations are repetitive and time-consuming. Use this tool to transform static policy docs into engaging, professional welcome videos instantly.
- How to do it:
1. Upload your onboarding document or policy PDF directly into the Google Vids interface.
2. Select "Create from Prompt" and specify: "Create a 60-second video summarizing key benefits and first-week expectations for new hires."
3. Edit the AI-suggested scenes and voiceover to finalize your orientation video.
🚀 Learning & Development
- Tool: NotebookLM
- The Fix: Converting long policy handbooks into actual training material is a grind. Use NotebookLM to turn your source documents into interactive study guides.
- How to do it:
1. Upload your company policy or training manual as a "source" in a new NotebookLM notebook.
2. Open the chat panel and prompt: "Generate a 10-question quiz with an answer key based on the 'Remote Work Policy' section."
3. Review the AI-generated questions and export the summary as a structured handout for new trainees.
🚀 Employee Relations & Policy Guidance
- Tool: Standard LLMs (Gemini / ChatGPT)
- The Fix: Drafting delicate communications or sensitive disciplinary feedback is mentally taxing. Use an LLM to refine your tone to be professional, inclusive, and legally sound.
- How to do it:
Role: You are an expert HR Manager.
Task: Rewrite the following draft for a disciplinary meeting notice to ensure it is neutral, empathetic, and objective.
Draft: [Paste your rough draft here]
Instructions: Ensure the language focuses on behavior rather than personality and includes a clear, supportive path forward.
🚀 People Analytics & Compensation
- Tool: Google Sheets with Embedded AI
- The Fix: Identifying pay inequities in large datasets is tedious. Use Sheets' built-in AI to perform trend analysis and spot outliers without manual formula writing.
- How to do it:
1. Highlight your dataset (e.g., employee roles, tenure, and salary data).
2. Click the "Help me organize" or "Ask a question" icon in the sidebar.
3. Prompt the AI: "Analyze this compensation data. Create a chart showing average pay by tenure and flag any roles where the salary is significantly below the market average."

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