Guides
Plain, practical guides to taking admin off a recruitment team with software, each one starting with the answer.
Ask the portal for a scheduled report first. Where there is none, browser automation can make the same updates your team makes, on a timer, and anything that does not match stops for a person.
Read the guideSoftware can read each document a candidate uploads, check it against the record you hold, pass the ones that match and hold the rest with a written reason, so your compliance team sees the problems, not the pile.
Read the guideThree new AI assistants keep working after you close the chat. What each one does, how you approve its actions, and whether you can get it in the UK.
Read the guideWhat Anthropic’s new always-on Claude app does, what it asks you before it acts, what it cannot do yet, and who can get it. The short version for UK agencies: not yet.
Read the guideA one-page kit for choosing and planning the first task to automate before anyone spends money: a three-sign test, a four-block plan, a four-line measure, a free idea-finder, and what to keep with a person.
Read the guideHow to ask ChatGPT for side-by-side comparisons, diagrams and calculators, how to build and export a deck with ChatGPT Slides, and which plans get what.
Read the guideWhat recent UK and global data says about AI-written applications, and its limits, plus a simple, fair way to sift when every application looks polished: the same questions for everyone, and a person deciding.
Read the guideHow to install the free, open-source GenOffice suite from its official page, turn a PDF into an editable spreadsheet on your own computer, and the three settings to change first.
Read the guideFive open-source SEO tools that plug into Claude or ChatGPT, how to install each one, and what ‘free’ really covers: the software, not the AI plan or the paid data.
Read the guideFive ways to use your voice instead of the keyboard with AI, with the exact prompts: a brain-dump that gets sorted, a voice note turned into a brief, and the checks to make before anything goes further.
Read the guideA one-page policy an agency can adapt: what AI does, what a person does, and how to tell candidates, with what LinkedIn’s new Hiring Assistant does and what UK candidates say about AI screening.
Read the guideBuild a small interactive tool in the Gemini app, export it to Google Sites as a private draft, check it, then publish it. With three tool ideas for recruitment agencies.
Read the guideOpenAI is retiring Custom GPTs and moving them to plugins. What moves over, what does not, the dates in OpenAI’s own FAQ, and the steps to take now so nothing your team relies on stops working.
Read the guideWhat an AI skill is, a fill-in-the-blanks skill for your house style, where skills work today in Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT, and how to test the same skill in two tools before your team relies on it.
Read the guideCanva’s own image model, Craft, is in Dream Lab for every Canva user. Where to find it, five prompts for recruitment graphics, and why every word on the image still needs a proofread.
Read the guideEmployers increasingly want people who can build with AI, not just prompt it. A simple four-part plan, five small builds anyone can start with, and how to tell whether each one works.
Read the guideAnthropic’s open-source plugins make Claude a specialist for one job. What the HR and sales plugins contain, what you need to use them, and how to set them up with the least access.
Read the guideWant to talk through your own team’s admin? Book a discovery call.