S5 E5 - ChatGPT for Recruitment Agencies with Firefish CEO Wendy McDougall

Fri May 12 2023

Introduction to Chat GPT in Recruitment

The podcast is about chat GPT from recruitment agencies with Firefish CEO Wendy McDougall.
Chat GPT can make recruitment agencies more efficient overnight.
AI has been around for a long time, but it's exploding right now due to chat GPT making it accessible to everyone.
The global AI market is currently worth 136 billion and is expected to grow by 38% this year alone.
Chat GPT has quickly gained popularity, reaching 100 million users in just two months.
A poll was conducted during the podcast to determine how many people have heard of or used chat GPT in recruitment.
The podcast aims to teach listeners how chat GPT can be applied in recruitment.

Chat GPT is a recruitment tool that can replace jobs, so recruiters need to get ahead of the game.
The top 20 jobs that Chat GPT thinks it will be able to do include recruitment.
Prompting is important for being clear and specific about what you want from the software.
To use Chat GPT, go to chat.openai.com and sign up for free or pay £20/month for better availability.
A new recruitment agency called Amazing Recruiters was launched using Chat GPT.
Chat GPT generated an About Us page and SEO phrases for the website in seconds.
Blog topics were suggested by Chat GPT to target IT managers at Scottish start-ups.

Generated blog topics for start-up Scottish businesses targeting IT and technology companies
Requested a 200-word blog on top marketing strategies for tech startups with an angle of providing marketeers
Rewrote the topic to focus on influencing marketing and interacted with the tool to adjust the writing style
Received three Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook posts for the blog with emojis added to make them more engaging
Asked for an outreach program to promote the blog to IT directors and generate business for a recruitment agency
Started a new chat to request a job advert looking for a data migrator who can manage multiple projects and cleanse customer data

A good advert for a data migrator job is created with required skills and project completion time.
The Boolean search string is automatically generated to find candidates from the CRM.
Interview questions and answers are provided for the role of data migrator.
A candidate profile is analyzed to determine if they are suitable for the job.
An email or LinkedIn message can be written to approach the candidate using Farfishes' learned writing style.
Meeting and assessing cultural fit of the candidate is critical in making a placement.
With more content available, it becomes important to differentiate by providing quality service.

J-GPT has made it easy to get content out and do more in-mails, leading to more candidates for the same or different jobs.
The middle part of recruitment will become critical as clients can easily replicate what recruiters are doing.
Candidates can use J-GPT to write a CV and apply for jobs, even if they don't know what to write about.
Recruiters will receive better CVs from candidates who may not know how to do the job but have access to better job adverts.
Nine out of ten organizations are using EI for a competitive edge over rivals. If recruiters don't embrace this technology, they will fall behind.
Recruiters should encourage their team members to learn about J-GPT and actively use it to cut down on admin tasks and improve efficiency.

Chat GPT API integration is now available through Azure, ensuring that client data is not pushed back into Chat GPT.
Using AI-generated content for blogs and website content may not be unique, but it can be tweaked to make it so.
Different answers are generated by Chat GPT even when asked the same question by different people.
Fish in the company have used Chat GPT to write songs with Firefish puns.
The first two touchpoints being built into the system are writing ad work and boolean searching interview questions to help junior recruiters learn what they should be doing.
Beta testing for Farfish integration will begin in four to six weeks.
'People GPT' is an interesting extension of Chat GPT that allows users to search for companies based on prompts.

Beta integration will be live in the next 4-6 weeks.
Account managers and support team will provide links for voting and beta testing.
People GPT is a new tool to check out.
Recruitment Brain Food WhatsApp group recommended People GPT.
Majority of people are not using the tool daily, but it has potential to change recruitment work.
Vanessa Rath from Talent Hunter will be joining next month's crowdcast.