Tips for HR
- Matthew Buskell
- Jun 8
- 2 min read
📌 TLDR Summary
Level up your HR efficiency with 5 AI hacks: streamline outreach, automate onboarding videos, synthesize L&D manuals, safely query policies, and analyze compensation data instantly.
🚀 Talent Acquisition / Recruiting
- Tool: ChatGPT
- The Fix: Stop sending generic outreach emails that get ignored. Instantly generate hyper-personalized messages based on candidate profiles to significantly boost response rates.
- How to do it:
Write a 3-sentence personalized outreach email to [Candidate Name] for the [Job Title] role. Reference their experience in [Specific Project or Skill] and highlight why our mission at [Company Name] aligns with their background in [Candidate Industry/Interest]. Keep the tone professional, warm, and concise.
🚀 Employee Onboarding
- Tool: Google Vids
- The Fix: Eliminate repetitive, manual orientation sessions. Quickly generate professional, video-based welcome walkthroughs that new hires can consume on-demand to speed up their ramp time.
- How to do it:
1. Open Google Vids and select "Help me create a video."
2. Enter a prompt describing the onboarding module (e.g., "Welcome to the team and IT setup guide") and upload your key policy documents.
3. Review the AI-generated storyboard, swap scenes as needed, and generate the final video to share with your new hire.
🚀 Learning & Development
- Tool: NotebookLM
- The Fix: Don't let massive training manuals gather dust. Instantly transform dense PDFs and training assets into interactive study guides and knowledge-check quizzes.
- How to do it:
1. Open NotebookLM and create a new notebook.
2. Upload your source training PDFs, handbooks, or long-form documentation.
3. Use the chat interface to request: "Create a 5-question quiz to test an employee's understanding of this training material and provide an answer key with explanations."
🚀 Employee Relations & Policy Guidance
- Tool: Gemini Enterprise (Workspace)
- The Fix: Answering routine policy questions takes hours of digging. Use enterprise-grade AI to query your secure internal document repositories instantly to resolve queries while maintaining compliance.
- How to do it:
Using our internal [Policy Drive/Document Name], answer the following: "What is the official procedure for requesting [Leave Type/Benefit] for an employee with [X tenure]? Summarize the key steps and provide the link to the required submission form."
🚀 People Analytics & Compensation
- Tool: Google Sheets with Embedded AI
- The Fix: Drowning in survey data or complex salary spreadsheets? Use AI to instantly spot sentiment patterns, calculate trends, or identify outliers without writing a single manual formula.
- How to do it:
1. Highlight your column of unstructured survey feedback or salary data in your sheet.
2. Click the "Help me organize" or "Help me analyze" (Magic Wand) icon.
3. Type a request like: "Summarize the top 3 recurring employee concerns" or "Identify any salaries that are 10% above the department average."

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