You learned what AI is, now what? (Practical use cases for AI in your everyday workflow)

Speak easy, unstoppable. Thank you for being my hype man, Dan. You are the best. So, give me a thumbs up everybody out there if you can see my screen. We can, yep. Sweet. Awesome. Well, super excited to meet with all of y'all today. What I'm going to talk about today is practical use cases for AI in your everyday workflow. Just to give you a view of the agenda of what we're going to be going over today. One, for those of you lucky enough to have Copilot or Gemini or Claude enabled in your workplace, we're going to go over a few of those, too. For those of you so that don't have those tools or if your uh workplace has said, "Hey, we'd rather you not put company data into any kind of ChatGPT," we'll we can talk about that, too. So, you still have use cases to help you in your recruiting day-to-day uh and not in like not use any uh company data to get you in trouble. And then last but not least, we'll go over some Q& A as well as some idea sharing in the chat. So, while I'm flipping through the slides, give me a little thumbs up if you've got AI enabled in your environment and give me a heart if you wish it was enabled in your environment there really quick. So, got a few thumbs up. Oh, some people wishing it was in their environment. But, awesome. Well, a little bit about me really quick. Been in recruiting for a little over 10 years before Dan. Uh you know, posted about the customer education role and we got, you know, connected here at HireEZ. Before then, I sold insurance door-to-door. So, a lot of my experience has been focused on optimizing time and managing that candidate experience. So, a lot of things that I like to go over are things post you found them and how to make your day more efficient throughout. So, who's this going to help? Ultimately, I'm a big fan of the 80/20 rule. There's a lot of amazing speakers today, but don't try and do everything that everyone shared with you all at once. That's a recipe for disaster. Take a few things, focus on 20% and the rest of the 80% will take care of you and or take care of itself. And then last but not least, for those who want to if you want to use AI, you're in the right place. This will definitely help you. If you don't want to use AI, stick around because you probably should. But anyway, how many of you give me a thumbs up or any kind of emoji if you can relate to this emoji right here. I'm hearing all this talk about AI and I have no clue what I should do. Right? How many of you can relate to this? If you're late in your journey, early in your journey, there's no wrong answer, right? There's a lot of really cool things. It's early in the AI career. It's still relatively new, right? You're hearing a lot about people using these use cases. You're hearing these super 10,000-ft view of how in the future we're going to be managing AI agents as individual contributors, right? We're not quite there yet. Some people might be, but don't worry, a majority of the people out there aren't there. So, main thing I want to say is it's not too late to get started, right? Eric is an AI mega-user, so he probably has a ton of use cases. But one thing I want to say is don't go the way of Sears like the internet. If you would have told anybody 30 years ago, "Hey, I uh I want to tell you that your 3-year-old's going to have their own Gmail account and your grandma's going to have a Facebook. " They don't even know what Facebook is. That's the reality it is today. The difference is it's not going to take 30 years for everybody to use AI the same way internet is being used in everyone's life, right? So, get into using AI on a day-to-day basis, whether it's for personal, for professional, just start using it so you can become familiar with it and not get left behind like Sears cuz who here is remember shopping at Sears? Uh and y'all might know the story. Early in the internet, Sears uh CEO said, "Hey, I think the internet's going to be a fad. We don't have to, you know, do or e-commerce or ordering online. We'll just I think people still want to come into the stores. " And then Amazon came by and now look where Sears is, right? So, don't be like Sears and get forgotten as soon as everybody else has caught up with AI. So, that being said, few workforce enabled workplaces, if you have AI enabled through Claude, Gemini, is everyone has now an executive assistant. Who remembers Clippy back whenever they're using Microsoft Word? Give me a thumbs up if you remember Clippy, right? So, AI is the new Clippy, right? The best part is though, is it works, right? It's not just interrupting you, "Oh, I see you're typing a letter. Let me hop in. " Right? So, with that, if you've ever wanted an executive assistant, this is just a few things you can do. You can prep have Gemini or Claude prep your day. If it has access to your emails and calendar, you can have it review your whole day just like an executive assistant say, "Hey, you should probably mention this in that upcoming meeting

that you have with one of your clients. Oh, I see you've got a bunch of candidate interviews today. Most of these are in this particular job. Make sure to have these points to recommended. So, you can have a ton of information and set up for your day for success every day. Another thing too is at the end of the day or the beginning of the next day, you want to have reminders of, "Oh my gosh, what did I forget? Did I forget anything? Please, Clippy, let me know yesterday what did I miss? I was supposed to send follow-ups to everybody. Did I not send follow-ups to people? Did I miss any emails? Well, can you even draft some of these responses for me so I can get a jump start on my day? " These are all things that if you aren't using your native enabled workspace with AI, you're just losing out. Again, calendar management, all this stuff, right? The biggest thing is use it every single day. The more familiar you are, the more comfortable you will be asking these things. And who knows your day better than you and what to go into it. So, having quick reminders and a nice summary of what you're getting into is the best experience. One thing I will say though is if you are treating your Clippy like a an executive assistant, your ChatGPT or whatever tool it is that you guys are using, don't watch it when you prompt, right? That's a huge waste of time. If you were If you ever saw your CEO watch their executive assistant after they've given them an order and they're just watching them manage their calendar, what's the point of having that executive assistant? Don't prompt the AI and wait for it to give you the prompt. That's Let it do its work while you're doing something else. That's where the efficiency comes in, right? As your prep As it's helping you prep for your day, you can be responding to some of the emails that you know aren't being caught right? So, just don't watch the AI. Walk through it. And for those of you that know, "Hey, these are things I'm going to be doing every single day. " Turn that into a skill. How many of you have already started making skills in your native AI environments? That could be, you know, a prep skill. It can be a PowerPoint presentation creation ton of different stuff. But, if you don't If you aren't making those yet, you're wasting a lot of time. Cloud skills are so good. Copilot also has skills. A lot of these native AI tools are creating these skills. These are just a few examples of what you can do on a day-to-day basis creating these write-ups. So, have Once you're especially in you're in the agency space and you know that there's a particular format that your client really, really wants their resumes and their write-ups to be, especially you can save a ton of time having a skill write it up for you based on the notes that you've done. They're amazing. One and Eric's great point, skills are awesome once you create them. They will take a little bit of time, especially if it's your first skill. They'll take some tweaking, but hey, by the end of the day, you'll all be vibe coding. Who here is recruited tech folks and know all about vibe coding and how much they complain about it in all of the subreddits like vibe our vibe coding. So, guys, start becoming vibe coders. Show those engineers that you recruit that you can do a little bit, too. I know we were talking earlier today with Michelle. She was I'm sure she's a huge vibe coder now with all the skills that and things that she's been building. So, don't let it pass you by. Continue to use and generate those skills. It will take some time in the long on the front end, but it will pay off by a huge amount of time saving in the back end. So, build those skills. Go into it. Now, for those of you that aren't lucky enough to have native AI, please follow along with me and while I'm going through these slides, Eric, I know you've got a few skills. List some of your favorite skills that you really enjoy and what you've built to help you save a ton of time in your ecosystem. So, how many of you are still building Boolean strings manually like Tony Stark did near a cave near five box of scraps, right? How many of you are still building Boolean strings the old-fashioned way? Or how many of you, I'm sure like Steve Levy, uh you know, he's probably got a huge database of all of his old Boolean strings that he's been using since he was faxing resumes and everything like that. So, I'm sure Steve can have, you know, just a copy and paste on all of his resumes, but if you're new to building Booleans, you will always always have access to build Booleans faster and better, right? So, help it build better skills, better titles, similar titles. You can even have it do better parenthetical groupings. It's going to save you a ton of time, right? Back then, I used to have to go to these sites and you know, say, "Hey, what are some of these similar tools? Okay, they're mapped like this is the API in the front end and all the back end. Okay, cool. So, let me make sure these are all done. " The Boolean can help you do that. It can even help you train. And the nice thing is, if you train it well enough

you can just slap a job description, slap your intake notes, and it'll give you a Boolean string right out of it. It's amazing what you can do with LLMs that you couldn't do, you know, even in the first early days of LLMs. But, first example to use. Oh, Eric, love it. Keep it Keep them coming. How many of you still write your notes with pen and paper? Give me a party emoji if you do. you're still writing with pen and paper. Look at that. I saw Oh, I see a few. Why? Why are you doing that? Nobody got time for that. Oh my gosh, you're going to have to transpose them. put them into a document, then you're going to have to rewrite everything. Stop it. If you have a phone, a cell phone, you already have an automatic note taker, right? If you're taking calls on your cell, you can do it. I know iPhone does. I know Androids do. At least my Pixel does. But, you can do it. It'll document, it'll transcribe it, and then you can copy and paste it. Start doing it. We're not in 2018 like Victoria, right? We So, guys, definitely, definitely use your AI note taking on your phone. You have a phone If you have a smartphone, you have a note taker. Also, if you use Teams or Zoom or Google Meet, you have one, too, if you like to do video interviews. It will transcribe for you, right? Do it. Start using it. And then, the only thing that doesn't have uh, text-to-speech is or speech-to-text is smoke signals. I don't think anybody's recruiting using smoke signals nowadays. But, you put those notes in your favorite LLM, you have a formatted prompt that, "Hey, this is how I want my notes to come out whenever I submit to this particular client, when hiring manager. " This is huge. This is going to be a huge time saver. So, for those of you that are still writing with pen and paper on your notes, stop it. Try a few notes. Don't stop it completely. Don't go cold turkey. But, maybe pick one day next week that you're going to try and use a transcribing uh, tool in your phone or on one of your video calls. Do it. It's easy. It'll be a lot It'll be a game changer for you. Next up, how many of you have ever been in a hiring manager meeting and take call? And it feels a lot like this. Give me a thumbs up if you've had this exact exchange with your hiring managers when you're taking a new uh, new jobs. Yeah, I'm getting a few thumbs up here. Yeah, looks just like it, right? The good news is AI can help with that now, right? You're not just an order taker. You can find an Aloysius, right? You can find that person so quickly by just finding their candidate profile, plugging it into an LLM, and saying, "Hey, what are some great key terms and things that I can use to develop a Boolean string. Can you help me find similar candidate profiles to this? " Right? Another use case for it is market data. Perplexity is probably one of my favorite free tools out there to use for this. Is you can go, "Hey, you're a labor economist like Mallory, and you specialize in this particular skill set in this industry. What are some labor exchanges or labor trends that I share with my hiring manager regarding this skill set. All right, now summarize that for me in a way that the hiring manager will understand. Right? You can do all of these prompts for free. And it's going to save you a ton of time, and it makes you become a talent partner, not just a recruiter. Well, Cassie, I mean, there's always going to be a tip there, right? So, there are sometimes that it doesn't quite work, and that's where, you know, you've just got to get a better hiring manager, Cassie. Hopefully, you can hire a better one for you soon. That's all I got to say — about that, right? But, that being said, the nice thing is HireEZ does a lot of this stuff AI natively, right? We help with hiring manager calls with easy insights. We help with the Boolean filters, all that stuff. These are things that I teach all of my clients how to do in HireEZ natively, which is really, really awesome to see. Especially with mass applicant review, it saves a ton of time. And campaign outreach, who has time to personalize hundreds of emails at a time? If you've got eight candidates that have that particular skill set in one place, personalize those emails, but if you've got to do it for 100 plus, it's not going to work. But, biggest thing about using AI is stay curious. Eric, you are a hero by posting some of these skills that you've been building with your AI tools in your AI native workspace. Anybody else, if you've got other skills that you've built or other use cases for AI, that's the whole point. We're early in the call. Oh, April, I'll have to talk to

you later about that. But, we do have AI interviewers out there. There's tools out there like crazy. But, share your favorite use cases with AI in the chat, so everybody can do it. We're still early. We're all learning new things. These are just a few initial things to get that spark going. I didn't want to go in too crazy and say, "Hey, this is how you have 10 different agents do your job for you while you manage them, right? It's not quite there yet for everybody. So, oh yeah, April, no worries. It's not going to do the interview for you quite yet on your voice call. It's a definite It's an AI agent that does the AI interview for you elsewhere, right? Don't worry. But, that being said, you can at Biggest thing is staying curious, asking how others are using it, right? Always, always, always stay curious, especially nowadays. It's such It's literally the cutting edge. It's the wild west out there. But, any questions for me? Any questions in the chat? Anything you want me to go back over? Or anyone on here have a question for someone in the chat? I know that Steve's in here. He's a huge guy, a huge AI person that's using a lot. Eric, obviously, has already posted a few skills, which is great to see. But, I love seeing all of this work. Oh, David's in here, too, shouting it up. Love seeing it. Again, this is such an early stage. What's my favorite tool? Uh I mean, my favorite free tool is Perplexity. I use it for a lot. Uh my favorite paid tool, I mean, there may be a little bias, but it's a little It's It's Hire Easy. I mean, look at this, right? I picked my one of my favorite gifts for Hire Easy. Aaron, I haven't used Comet, but I have heard about it, right? So, Penn is also good. Penn is a good tool. Who's else's everybody's favorite tool? Let's see. Perplexity, yep. I'm a big Perplexity fan. I'm not a fan of Gippity. That's my least favorite tool. Claude's huge. I used Claude the other day to help me do a Pokémon Draft League. So, yeah. Claude can do a lot more than just work stuff. Oh, we got a Grok user in the house. Ronnie, love seeing you, Ronnie. One of my faves. I'll see you tonight at the meetup. For anybody here in Atlanta wants to geek out a little bit more, we've got the Atlanta recruiter meet up or community meet up tonight at 6:30 in the Marietta area. Check me out on meet up. I post memes about it all the time. But, Dan, thank you so much. Love seeing being a part of the community and seeing all the interaction in the chat. Everybody sharing some amazing thoughts and amazing skills. So, I'll hand it back to you.