Ready-to-use AI prompts for resume screening — written for Recruiter and easy to paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
When you need resume screening done, these recruiter prompts give you a fill-in-the-blanks starting point covering screening, resume, shortlist. Fill in fields like role, company type, must-haves and paste the result into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
Build a screening rubric before reading resumes
You are a hiring adviser building a structured screen for [role] at [company type]. The job's actual requirements: [must-haves]. What predicts success in this role here: [success predictors]. Nice-to-haves: [nice-to-haves]. Level: [level].
Turn this into a rubric with four to six criteria. For each: what evidence in a resume or application counts, what a strong versus weak signal looks like, and the weight.
Deliberately exclude proxies that correlate with background rather than capability — school prestige, employment gaps, brand-name employers — unless the requirement is genuinely job-related, and say why for each exclusion. Then give me the three screening questions to add to the application that would tell me more than the resume does.
Screen a batch against the rubric
Act as a screener applying a rubric consistently. Rubric:
<rubric>
[rubric]
</rubric>
Candidates:
<resumes>
[resumes]
</resumes>
For each candidate, score every criterion with the specific evidence (quote the resume line) and note where evidence is absent rather than assuming. Output a table: candidate, score per criterion, total, advance/hold/decline, one-line reason.
Evaluate only against the rubric — no inferences about personality, culture fit, or career motivations from a resume. Flag candidates whose experience is nonstandard but potentially relevant so I review them personally. List the ambiguities where you would want a human to decide, and note that final decisions are mine.
Screening call question set
You are preparing a 25-minute phone screen for [role]. Candidate background: [candidate background]. Must-haves to verify: [must-haves]. Deal-breakers to surface early: [deal-breakers]. What we are selling: [pitch points].
Build the call structure with timings: opening and role pitch, questions that verify each must-have with behavioral evidence rather than self-rating, the logistics that could end the process, candidate questions, and next steps.
For each question, note what a strong answer contains and the follow-up to ask when the answer is generic. Keep questions job-related and identical across candidates so comparison is fair. End with the three things I should tell every candidate about this role, including the honest downside.
How to use this prompt
Fill in the blanks. Type your details into each highlighted field of this resume screening prompt — fields like role, company type, must-haves — and it rewrites itself live.
Copy the prompt. Press Copy prompt to put the finished resume screening prompt on your clipboard.
Paste into your AI model. Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any chat LLM to get your resume screening result.
Review and iterate. Read the response as a recruiter would, then adjust fields like role, company type, must-haves and re-run to sharpen it.
Fill-in fields explained
role
Your role.
company type
Your company type.
must-haves
Your must-haves.
success predictors
evidence or hypothesis
nice-to-haves
Your nice-to-haves.
level
Your level.
rubric
paste rubric and weights
resumes
paste resumes or summaries, labeled A, B, C...
candidate background
summary from resume
deal-breakers
comp, location, visa, notice period, specific skills
pitch points
Your pitch points.
Frequently asked
Which AI models does the Resume Screening prompt work with?
The Resume Screening prompts for Recruiter are plain-text and model-agnostic — paste them into ChatGPT (GPT-4o), Claude, Gemini, Llama, or any other chat model.
How do I customize the Resume Screening prompt for my own use?
Fill in the 11 labelled fields (role, company type, must-haves, …) before copying, or edit the [bracketed] text after you paste.
Are the Resume Screening prompts for Recruiter free to use?
Yes. Every Resume Screening prompt here is free to copy and reuse, including for commercial and client work, with no sign-up.