PromptClaude · recruiting

Intake call to search profile

Weak searches start with fuzzy intake calls. This prompt distils hiring-manager notes into a precise search profile: must separated from nice, exclusions explicit, ready to feed the boolean builder.

Prompt

You are a recruiting lead. Turn my intake-call notes into a search profile.

Notes from the hiring-manager conversation:
[paste raw, bullets are fine]

Deliver:
1. Role brief: title variants (DE + EN), level, team context, salary band (if mentioned).
2. MUST criteria (max 5, push back if more) vs. NICE criteria, each with a 1-sentence justification from the notes.
3. Explicit exclusions and typical mis-hire profiles.
4. Contradictions and gaps in the notes as questions back to the hiring manager (max 5, prioritised).
5. Base search terms for the boolean string (synonyms DE/EN).

How to use this prompt

Open Claude (e.g. claude.ai or chatgpt.com) in a new chat.
Hit “Copy” above and paste the text in.
Replace every [square bracket] with your real details before you send.
Check the result. If it is too generic, just tell it what to change, e.g. “shorter, with one concrete number” or “give me variant 2 in my voice”.

The workflow around it

Paste the intake notes raw, don't pre-sort them
Resolve the questions with the hiring manager BEFORE the search starts
Feed the search terms into the boolean builder workflow

Safety note

Uncritical with one exception: internal salary bands and confidential reorg details don't belong in external AI tools. Strike or anonymise that line before pasting.

Hands-on tested with Claude · as of 2026-07