Mastering EZ Agent:  Your guide to effective prompts in hireEZ

What is EZ Agent?

EZ Agent is hireEZ's semi-autonomous, agentic AI technology that functions as your recruiting assistant, enabling gains in your productivity and efficiency through automation and optimization of daily recruiting tasks. This includes proactively sourcing, screening, managing candidate outreach, and more.

It's designed to empower you to focus on strategy, candidate relationship-building, internal stakeholder collaboration, and decision-making. It's here to save you time by alleviating manual tasks, all while keeping you in control at every step of the process.

You may already be familiar with Generative AI tools like ChatGPT. While GenAI technology responds to prompts and creates content (such as email campaign content), it is limited in its ability to make decisions, proactively plan and manage multi-step processes, and act independently.

That's where EZ Agent - hireEZ's Agentic AI capability - comes into play!

As an agentic AI tool, EZ Agent takes initiative proactively, understands context, plans multi-step workflows, and learns and adapts. It is a strategic collaborator.

Here's a simple example to understand the difference:

General best practices with EZ Agent prompts:

This is where the “art of the prompt” really makes a difference in what you can get out of the technology. Before we get into some of the specific prompts that we recommend exploring within each area of hireEZ, let's start with some general best practices.

• Be clear and specific. If your input is generic or vague, so will be the output.
• Establish context. Provide enough details about the role, your requirements, and preferences in your initial prompts, so the agent has enough foundational information to work with.
• Iterate and refine. Since agentic AI learns (and remembers), adjust prompts based on results. EZ Agent is quite intelligent, so if something in the results doesn't look right, let the system know!
• Feedback loop. Approve and refine EZ Agent actions or recommendations to guide its learning over time. Converse with EZ Agent so that over time it can more deeply understand your preferences and working style.

While there isn't a “one size fits all” prompt, you can think of creating prompts in this way:
What is your…

• Requirement and Goal (ie, need more candidates with XYZ skills)

Or, in other words:
Input your…

• Action (Analyze, Search, Engage, etc) + Object (Candidates, Projects)

Here are a couple of examples of prompts following this structure:

• Analyze the candidates in my search results
• Engage with candidates in the Good Fit stage of my Project

You're always welcome to get creative with EZ Agent and build your own prompts. 

Or, if you'd rather start with some pre-built prompts, continue to the next section of this guide.

Recommended prompts to get started:

EZ Agent is embedded into almost every aspect of the hireEZ workflow. From the moment a req opens, and you go to hireEZ to start reviewing applicants or start sourcing, EZ Agent is ready to roll!

In this next section, we'll share our top three recommended prompts for each of the core areas of hireEZ to help you get familiar and comfortable with using EZ Agent as part of the workflow.

Think of them as templates - remember to customize them to your roles and specific needs. And once you get the hang of using these recommended prompts, feel free to get creative with them, exploring different prompts and requests that may come to mind.

ProTip: The first thing we recommend you do when creating and starting to work on a Project is to review and update your Ideal Candidate Persona. This is critical because the system will determine how closely each profile matches up to your Ideal Persona, so you can prioritize the profiles that are most aligned with what you're looking for.

Note: If your Ideal Candidate Persona was created based on the JD, be sure to review all the requirements and remove unnecessary items to increase the precision of EZ Agent's candidate screening. Often, JDs are very long/generic, so as an alternative to building your ICP based on this, you can use intake form documents, hireEZ Forms (which may house intake notes), and even build your ICP based on your search filters or sample candidates.

To learn more about crafting an effective Ideal Candidate Persona, watch this video.

ProTip: EZ Agent will recommend jobs that are a Good or Best Match for applicants that you've just rejected, helping you re-route that candidate to another req that you or another team member is working on that they may be a better fit for.

While this is certainly not an exhaustive list - EZ Agent's capabilities are growing day by day, after all - we hope this is a helpful starting point for you to begin exploring and getting comfortable with using EZ Agent to help you fill your reqs, save time, and empower you in your role!