Recruiting Trailblazers
Vanessa Raath: Leveraging AI to Become a Better Recruiter
Thu May 18 2023
Vanessa Raff's Online Training Academy and AI Course
00:05 - 06:18
- Vanessa Raff has launched an online training academy and a course designed to teach AI to recruiters.
- AI can help recruiters by taking away the mundane administrative part of their jobs.
- Knowing how to use Chat GPT can increase a recruiter's chances of landing a job.
- The person who embraces Chat GPT is more likely to get the role.
Embracing AI in Recruiting
05:54 - 12:01
- Recruiting is all about speed, so embrace AI to be more efficient.
- AI can't replace the relationship development piece of recruiting.
- Leverage technology to take away tasks that keep you from building relationships.
- Use AI-generated prompts as a starting point for outreach emails.
- Put your own spin on AI-generated content and make it sound like a human wrote it.
- Learning about AI is exciting and can be done by being curious and listening to podcasts.
Chat GPT and Other Tools for Recruiters
11:31 - 17:11
- Chat GPT can be used for industry research, generating job descriptions, interview questions, screening questions, and more.
- People GPT is a search engine for candidates produced by Juicebox.
- Chat GPT is the mechanism behind OpenAI's machine where you can type in questions and get responses.
- Different forms of GPT are popping up, but they're all based on predictive text generation.
- Artistic tools like Donnie or Marjony generate unique images in any style.
- OpenAI wants to keep the rights for the phrase 'GPT'.
Using Chat GPT-3 in Recruiting
16:42 - 22:27
- Recruiters using AI and chat GPT may just spam more intelligently than before.
- There will be a massive increase in outreach messages via emails or LinkedIn.
- The recruiters who have built a trusted personal online brand will stand out from those who haven't.
- Prompt engineering is becoming an important role as it determines the quality of responses generated by chat GPT.
- Writing good prompts is crucial to getting good responses from chat GPT.
- Recruiters should ask better quality questions during interviews to get the best out of candidates.
- Specific and detailed scenarios lead to more detailed answers from chat GPT-3.
- Chat GPT-3 can help recruiters with heavy lifting by breaking down role descriptions, generating better interview questions, and finding synonyms of keywords.
- To understand a role description better, copy and paste it into chat GPT-3 and ask it to explain it like you're a 15-year-old.
- Use chat GPT-3 to generate reasonable answers for interview questions based on the topic of who you are interviewing.
- Find synonyms for job titles using chat GPT-3 to create an entire search string.
Recruiting Strategies and Tips
22:10 - 27:45
- Understanding the principles of Boolean is necessary to see whether the Boolean is correct or not.
- Different platforms have their own nuances, and it's important to learn which ones require X-ray searching and which ones are better for native search.
- Sourcing training is becoming more important as recruiters need to know different nuances depending on where they report.
- Doing your homework and getting to know your candidate well can help personalize outreach and get a better response from candidates.
- Recruiters should think like marketers and feed people information in stages rather than sending one long email with too much information.
- Sending a breakup email as the final email often gets a response from candidates who were previously unresponsive.
- Chat GPT can be used to write personalized outreach messages one-to-one by copying someone's LinkedIn profile, but it cannot yet generate personal emails for multiple profiles at once.
- Using CHET GPT to create a 150-word summary of a candidate is a great idea.
- CHET GPT can also assess a candidate against a job spec and list the pros and cons.
- New recruiters should cross-reference CHET GPT's output as it may not always be correct.
- Synthizia puts together training videos for you by using an AR avatar.
- Vvrdyo picks out important pieces from any video link and creates short snippets that can be shared on social media.
- To get passive talent to respond, think like a marketer, personalize outreach, and put candidates into drip feed campaigns.
- This year has been tough for recruiters due to layoffs and less business flying around. Recruiters should use this time to upskill themselves.
Vanessa Rafferty's Perspective on Recruiting
27:19 - 33:15
- Vanessa Rafferty encourages people to use their time to upskill themselves.
- Recruiters have reached out to Vanessa for training during this time.
- Vanessa believes that recruitment is something that gets in your blood and will bring you back eventually.
- Things are stabilizing a little bit more, and the US has been more affected than other parts of the world.
- South Africa has also been affected by layoffs from global companies like Amazon and UK-based companies.
- Vanessa is optimistic about things picking up in the future.
- Vanessa's new AI course is available on her website or LinkedIn profile.
Summary
00:05 - 35:13
- Vanessa Raff has launched an online training academy and a course designed to teach AI to recruiters.
- AI can help recruiters by taking away the mundane administrative part of their jobs.
- Knowing how to use Chat GPT can increase a recruiter's chances of landing a job.
- The person who embraces Chat GPT is more likely to get the role.
- Recruiting is all about speed, so embrace AI to be more efficient.
- AI can't replace the relationship development piece of recruiting.
- Leverage technology to take away tasks that keep you from building relationships.
- Use AI-generated prompts as a starting point for outreach emails.
- Put your own spin on AI-generated content and make it sound like a human wrote it.
- Learning about AI is exciting and can be done by being curious and listening to podcasts.
- Chat GPT can be used for industry research, generating job descriptions, interview questions, screening questions, and more.
- People GPT is a search engine for candidates produced by Juicebox.
- Chat GPT is the mechanism behind OpenAI's machine where you can type in questions and get responses.
- Different forms of GPT are popping up, but they're all based on predictive text generation.
- Artistic tools like Donnie or Marjony generate unique images in any style.
- OpenAI wants to keep the rights for the phrase 'GPT'.
- Recruiters using AI and chat GPT may just spam more intelligently than before.
- There will be a massive increase in outreach messages via emails or LinkedIn.
- The recruiters who have built a trusted personal online brand will stand out from those who haven't.
- Prompt engineering is becoming an important role as it determines the quality of responses generated by chat GPT.
- Writing good prompts is crucial to getting good responses from chat GPT.
- Recruiters should ask better quality questions during interviews to get the best out of candidates.
- Specific and detailed scenarios lead to more detailed answers from chat GPT-3.
- Chat GPT-3 can help recruiters with heavy lifting by breaking down role descriptions, generating better interview questions, and finding synonyms of keywords.
- To understand a role description better, copy and paste it into chat GPT-3 and ask it to explain it like you're a 15-year-old.
- Use chat GPT-3 to generate reasonable answers for interview questions based on the topic of who you are interviewing.
- Find synonyms for job titles using chat GPT-3 to create an entire search string.
- Understanding the principles of Boolean is necessary to see whether the Boolean is correct or not.
- Different platforms have their own nuances, and it's important to learn which ones require X-ray searching and which ones are better for native search.
- Sourcing training is becoming more important as recruiters need to know different nuances depending on where they report.
- Doing your homework and getting to know your candidate well can help personalize outreach and get a better response from candidates.
- Recruiters should think like marketers and feed people information in stages rather than sending one long email with too much information.
- Sending a breakup email as the final email often gets a response from candidates who were previously unresponsive.
- Chat GPT can be used to write personalized outreach messages one-to-one by copying someone's LinkedIn profile, but it cannot yet generate personal emails for multiple profiles at once.
- Using CHET GPT to create a 150-word summary of a candidate is a great idea.
- CHET GPT can also assess a candidate against a job spec and list the pros and cons.
- New recruiters should cross-reference CHET GPT's output as it may not always be correct.
- Synthizia puts together training videos for you by using an AR avatar.
- Vvrdyo picks out important pieces from any video link and creates short snippets that can be shared on social media.
- To get passive talent to respond, think like a marketer, personalize outreach, and put candidates into drip feed campaigns.
- This year has been tough for recruiters due to layoffs and less business flying around. Recruiters should use this time to upskill themselves.
- Vanessa Rafferty encourages people to use their time to upskill themselves.
- Recruiters have reached out to Vanessa for training during this time.
- Vanessa believes that recruitment is something that gets in your blood and will bring you back eventually.
- Things are stabilizing a little bit more, and the US has been more affected than other parts of the world.
- South Africa has also been affected by layoffs from global companies like Amazon and UK-based companies.
- Vanessa is optimistic about things picking up in the future.
- Vanessa's new AI course is available on her website or LinkedIn profile.