Attribution: Prepared by 6DuckLearn. Inspired by Google Workspace with Gemini Prompting Guide 101 (2025).
When to use this
You're a recruiter or HR manager who wants to step back and improve how you find, attract, and move candidates through the hiring pipeline — rather than just filling one role, you're optimising the whole process.
What you'll get
A prioritised list of concrete strategies to improve your recruiting process — covering sourcing channels, candidate experience, interview structure, speed-to-hire, and diversity initiatives — ready to present to your team or HR leadership.
Prompt template
Use this in Gemini in Docs:
Create a list of strategies our recruiting team can use to improve our existing recruiting process and identify potential job candidates. Context: we are a [company size]-person company in the [industry] industry, primarily hiring for [role types]. Our current challenges include [challenge 1] and [challenge 2]. Organise suggestions by category (sourcing, candidate experience, process efficiency, diversity) and flag which are quick wins vs. longer-term initiatives.
Fill in the variables:
[company size]— e.g. "50-person", "500-person", "enterprise"[industry]— e.g. "SaaS", "healthcare", "retail"[role types]— e.g. "engineering and design roles", "frontline operations staff", "senior leadership"[challenge 1],[challenge 2]— e.g. "high drop-off after first interview", "too few diverse candidates in pipeline"
Customisation tips
- Ask for metrics: "Include a KPI I should track for each strategy"
- Prioritise by effort: "Mark each strategy as Low / Medium / High effort to implement"
- Focus on a single category: "Focus only on candidate sourcing for now"
- Request tool recommendations: "Note which strategies are enhanced by Google Workspace tools"
Iteration suggestions
After Gemini generates the strategy list:
- Write the job post → use
job-description-writerto put one of these strategies into practice immediately - Build interview structure → use
interview-screening-questionsto improve the interview stage
Related skills in this workflow
| Step | Skill | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 1 → You are here | recruiting-process-improvement |
Brainstorm process improvement strategies |
| 2 | job-description-writer |
Write a compelling job description |
| 3 | interview-screening-questions |
Generate screening questions from the JD |
| 4 | offer-letter-template |
Draft the offer letter |
| 5 | rejection-letter-empathetic |
Write the rejection letter |
| 6 | hiring-metrics-sheets |
Build and analyse hiring metrics in Sheets |