About six months ago I was running workshops on ChatGPT for recruiters. I'd plugged it into pretty much everything, calendar, email, ATS, the lot. If you'd asked me then, I would have told you it was the only AI tool worth bothering with.
Four months ago I moved to Claude. Haven't looked back.
I held off for a while because the switching cost felt real. Workshops to update, systems to reconnect, prompts to rewrite. But the gap between the two kept widening, and at some point it stopped making sense to stay where I was just because I'd already set it up.
So instead of writing about features, here's what I actually do with Claude now. Five workflows I run every week. Each one was either impossible or painfully slow on ChatGPT.
How I use it
Full role brief from one transcript
Fireflies records the briefing call and the transcript lands in my OneDrive. Claude reads it straight from the connected folder, no upload, no copy paste from me. Trigger the brief and out comes a recap email back to the client, a position description ready to publish, three target candidate profiles, Boolean search strings for each, a job ad, and a draft outreach for top targets. One call in, the whole front end of the role out. Used to be half a day. Now it's twenty minutes of editing.
Client meetings prepped before I ask
Every morning Claude looks at the day's calendar, picks out every client meeting, and builds a full prep brief for each one without me prompting it. Email thread, recent transcripts, calendar history with that contact, open actions, what to lead with. Sitting there waiting when I open my laptop. I walk into every call knowing exactly where we left off.
Branded candidate profiles, ready to send
Interview notes or a transcript in. Out comes a candidate profile in my exact house template, written in my voice, structured the way clients expect, formatted to send. The client opens it and it looks like I spent two hours on it. I spent five minutes editing.
Morning briefing that runs my inbox triage
First thing every morning, Claude sweeps the calendar, any emails since I logged off, and any new meeting transcripts. It hands me one document: today's meetings and what I need for each, follow-ups owed, threads gone quiet, anything urgent. Used to be the messiest hour of my day. Now it's the easiest.
Warm pipeline reactivation on demand
Twice a month I ask Claude to scan the last 60 days of emails and transcripts and surface warm leads that never converted, ranked by readiness, with a tailored reopening angle for each. It finds prospects I'd genuinely forgotten about. That workflow alone has paid for the tool a few times over.
None of this is anti-ChatGPT. It's still a useful tool. But on the work recruiters actually do, the gap is real now, and growing.
If you're a recruiter trying to work out where to put your AI time, I'd start with Claude. And if you want to build workflows like the five above, we've packaged the whole approach into a course.
The course walks through every workflow in this newsletter, plus the skills, projects and connectors behind them.
Recah out to me on linkedin or email and I'll send you the waitlist link.
Talk soon,
Ez
