HR
Intermediate
16 min
Hiring and people — job descriptions, interviews and the decisions AI must not make
The problem
You need an accounts executive. You post a JD copied from another company. You get 140 applications, skim 30, interview 6, and hire the one you liked talking to.
The workflow
1List the real tasks
2Write the JD
3Define criteria
4Extract CV facts
5Shortlist yourself
6Structured interview
7Work sample
★Decide on evidence
What you need
Role: Accounts Executive, kitchenware D2C, Jaipur. Real tasks: reconcile marketplace settlements against sales register (8 hrs/wk); vendor payments and follow-up (6); GST data preparation for the CA (4); daily bank entries (4); monthly MIS support (3).
The tool
Any assistant with your real task list
The prompt
Subscribers. The full prompt is part of the SMEMinds AI Playbook. See plans.
What comes back
3. INFLATED REQUIREMENTS — You did not state a years-of-experience requirement, which is correct and unusual.
Verify before you use it
Human review required. Check every line below before this leaves your screen.
- Anonymise the work sample data properly — it contains real settlement figures and possibly customer information.
- Check the salary range against what the market actually pays in Jaipur for this work. An out-of-market range wastes everyone's time.
- Confirm you will genuinely ask every candidate the same questions. The value of a structured interview is entirely in the consistency.
- If the work sample takes more than about thirty minutes, pay for it. Unpaid long tasks select for candidates who can afford to do them.