Recruitment work, written as prompts you can paste.
Each play below is a real desk job: sourcing a role, speccing a candidate out to the market, working a hiring signal before anyone else sees it. Copy the prompt, replace the placeholders, run it in your own Claude. Hyreflow supplies the tools underneath and charges credits only on the steps that actually touch a vendor.
104 plays
Sourcing
Get from an open role to a shortlist you would actually send.
Ask the people you placed for referrals into a live role
use whenyou have years of placements in your database and no habit of asking those people who else is good
Build Boolean and X-ray search strings from a job spec
use whenyou have a spec and want search strings you can paste into LinkedIn, Google or your ATS, without hand-typing forty title variants
Find candidates who have said publicly that they are open to work
use whena role has to be filled fast and you want to start with the people who have raised a hand, without the open-to-work filter in LinkedIn Recruiter
Find more candidates like the best person you ever placed
use whenyou can point at one person and say more like this, faster than you can write the brief that describes them
Find the candidate one level below who is ready to step up
use wheneveryone who already holds the title is out of budget or not moving, and the realistic hire is someone one level below
Find the candidates already sitting in your own ATS
use whena role comes in and you want to know who you already have before you pay to source anyone new
Map a whole talent pool, including the half that is not looking
use whenthe role is hard, the obvious search is exhausted, and you need to prove to a client that you have covered the market
Run one candidate search across every people database at once
use whenone database keeps handing you the same names and you suspect the rest of the market is sitting in the others
Score one candidate against every open role in your ATS
use whena strong applicant comes in for the wrong job, and your team is working dozens of other roles they might fit
Source engineers on proof of work instead of job titles
use whenyou are filling a developer role and the profiles all claim the same stack
Source from named competitors with your off-limits list enforced
use whenyou know exactly which firms to take people from, and which firms must never be touched
Source in Germany on every form of the title, not only the one you typed
use whenyou are sourcing in a German-speaking market and the search returns fewer people than you know are there
Turn a company's public team page into a qualified candidate list
use whena company's own team page already lists the people you want, and the databases hardly know the firm exists
Turn a conference speaker list into candidates worth approaching
use whenan industry event has published its speakers and the people on stage look like the hire your client wants
Turn a job spec into a ranked shortlist with contact details
use whenyou have a live role and want a shortlist you would actually send to the client, not a raw export
Business development
Turn a candidate, a signal, or a market map into conversations with hiring managers.
Build a standing account list of every company running your technology
use whenyou recruit around one technology and want the full list of companies in your patch that run it, whether or not they are hiring today
Build the target account list for a recruitment desk
use whenyou are opening a new market or a new desk and need to know which companies are even worth calling
Check in with both sides of a placement at three, six and twelve months
use whenyou placed someone a while ago and the three, six or twelve month point is coming up, which is when a short note to the candidate and the client does the most good
Find local employers by category and town, with the owner to call
use whenyou place into local employers such as care homes, practices, workshops or kitchens, and they are missing from the databases you already pay for
Find more companies like your best clients
use whenyou can name the five to ten clients you would clone if you could, and you want the companies that look like them
Find the hiring manager behind a job ad that names nobody
use whenyou have a job ad, or a handful of them, and none of them names anybody you can write to
Map every hiring manager at one large account
use whenyou have won a place on a supplier list or made one placement at a large company, and you want everyone there who hires in your discipline
Spec one strong candidate out to fifteen companies
use whenyou have an excellent candidate on the bench and no live role to put them into
Turn a CV into live open roles and the manager who owns each one
use whenone candidate, and you want to know exactly who is hiring for them right now and who to write to
Turn a LinkedIn connections export into a scored prospect database
use whenyou have thousands of first-degree connections and no idea which of them are actually buyers
Turn an investor's portfolio page into a hiring pipeline
use whenyou recruit for venture-backed companies and want to work one investor's portfolio as a single list
Win back client companies nobody has called in a long while
use whenthere are companies you have placed with or worked for that nobody on the team has spoken to in a long while
Work a conference exhibitor list before the doors open
use whenthere is a trade show in your sector and you would rather have meetings booked than badges collected
Work both sides of a job ad: the hiring manager and the candidates
use whenroles are being advertised in your niche and you want to reach the hiring manager with real candidates already in hand
Work your hundred most wanted accounts every week, ten at a time
use whenyou keep a list of the accounts and people you most want to work with, and it only gets touched when the desk is quiet
Signals
Watch for the moment a company or a person becomes worth contacting.
Bring your client a briefing on what their competitors are hiring
use whenyou have a client meeting coming up and want to show what their named competitors are hiring for, where, and how fast
Build a call sheet where every row has a reason to call
use whenyour desk wins work on the phone and you want every call to start from a live vacancy, not from a cold list
Build the candidate pool for a funded company before its roles exist
use whena company in your niche has just raised and you want to open the conversation with people in hand, not a capability statement
Catch hiring managers who announce a role on LinkedIn before the job ad
use whenhiring managers in your market announce roles in a LinkedIn post before, or instead of, a job ad
Find companies hiring at volume with no recruiter of their own
use whenyou want the hiring managers carrying several open roles with no internal recruiter to help them
Find every company hiring for your specialism this week
use whenyou want live demand in your market, not a static prospect list
Find the companies adopting the technology you recruit for
use whenyou recruit for a specific technology and want the companies that run it, are hiring around it, or both
Find the companies growing faster than their job ads show
use whena company in your market is visibly growing, and you want the conversation before the hiring shows up as job ads
Find the German employers who only advertise on the Arbeitsagentur
use whenyou recruit in Germany and the employers you want are small and mid-sized firms that never post on LinkedIn
Find the people you placed years ago who hire for their own team today
use whenthe people you placed years ago are running teams, and your database still files them as candidates
Find the trial sponsors about to staff up clinical operations
use whenyou recruit in life sciences and want the sponsors whose trials have just started recruiting patients or moved phase
Follow your client contacts when they move company
use whena hiring manager who knows you has changed employer, and your CRM still shows them at the company they left
Get back in touch with candidates who were promoted or changed job
use whenyour database is full of people you have not spoken to in years, and you do not know which of them have been promoted or changed employer since
Get two or three talking points per account from what they post on LinkedIn
use whenyou have a named account list and want to know what each company and its leaders have been saying on LinkedIn before you speak to them
Know when a leader leaves a target account and the seat needs filling
use whena head of function may have left one of your target accounts, and you want the backfill conversation before the search is briefed out
Know when a target account opens a role in your discipline
use whenyou already have a list of accounts and want to know when one of them opens a role you recruit
Know when someone you placed has left, before the client calls you
use whenyou have placed people over the years and would not know if one of them walked out of a client last month
Pitch the hiring managers whose roles have been open too long
use whenyou want the hiring managers who have been trying to fill a role for weeks, not the ones who posted yesterday
Reach a company that has just won work it has to staff
use whena company in your market has announced a large contract, a major client or a partnership, and the team to deliver it does not exist yet
Reach a funded company before the roles go live
use whena company in your market has just raised, and you want the conversation before the job ads appear
Reach a new leader before they choose their recruiters
use whena company in your market has appointed a new leader and you want the conversation before their suppliers are chosen
Reach displaced talent in the week the layoff lands
use whena company in your market has announced redundancies and there is a short window before everyone else calls
Reach the people and the buyer unsettled by an acquisition or restructure
use whena company in your market has been acquired, merged or reorganised, and both its people and its supplier list are about to move
Reach US contractors who have just pulled building permits
use whenyou recruit for construction or the trades in the US and want the contractors with fresh permits before they advertise for crews
Turn a niche job board into employers and hiring managers
use whenthe roles that matter in your market sit on a sector, regional or public-sector board that the big job sources do not cover
Contact data
Get the email, mobile or LinkedIn profile for people you already have names for.
Add the LinkedIn profile URL to a list of names and companies
use whenyour rows have a name and an employer, or only an email, and no LinkedIn profile link to match them on
Check an old email list before it touches your sending domain
use whenyou are about to email a list you did not build this month, such as an old export, a bought list or last year's campaign
Enrich on the data seats you already pay for, and buy only the gaps
use whenyour agency already pays for seats with data providers such as Prospeo, Lusha or Apollo, and you do not want to buy the same lookups a second time
Find mobile numbers for the shortlist you are about to call
use whenyou have a shortlist of people you intend to ring this week and no mobile number for most of them
Find out who is behind an email address or a phone number
use whenan enquiry came from a personal address, a call was missed, or a CRM record holds nothing but an email, and you need to know who it is and where they work
Find personal emails for candidates who are not looking
use whenthe people you want are in a job and not looking, and your approach must not land in an inbox their employer owns
Find where your bounced contacts went, and an address that works
use whena campaign came back with bounces, and you want the people behind them found again, not only the dead addresses removed
Get emails and mobiles for a list you already have
use whenyou already have the names, in a spreadsheet or a shortlist, and all you are missing is a way to reach them
Get verified work emails for hiring managers you can already name
use whenyou have the hiring manager's name and company, from a job ad, an event or a referral, and no address to write to
Turn a team page into a contact sheet with email and mobile
use whenyou have a company's team page open and you want every person on it as a row you can work, not a shortlist
Database
Work the ATS or CRM you already pay for before you buy new data.
Fill the missing emails and mobiles in your CRM
use whenyour ATS or CRM is full of people you cannot reach because the email, mobile or LinkedIn field is empty
Load a finished shortlist into your ATS without creating duplicates
use whenyou have a finished shortlist or prospect list as a file, and it needs to be in your ATS or CRM without doubling up people you already hold
Make an old recruitment database searchable again
use whenyour database is too out of date to search, with old job titles, people who have moved on and the same person in it twice
Move to another ATS without taking the mess with you
use whenyou are about to move from one ATS or CRM to another, and you do not want the duplicates, dead records and old job titles migrated along with everything else
Put a dormant candidate database back to work, one segment at a time
use whenyour agency owns a large candidate database that nobody opens any more, and you keep paying to source people you may already have
Tag old records into your own taxonomy so searches find them
use whenold records have free-text job titles and no usable tags, so your searches miss people you already hold
Research and mapping
Map a market, a competitor or a talent pool before you commit a desk to it.
Brief yourself on a candidate's public work before the first call
use whenyou have a first call booked with a candidate and want more than a skim of their profile, without straying into anything personal
Map a company's engineering team from its public GitHub organisation
use whenyou are about to source from, or pitch to, a named tech company and want to know who builds what there before you open LinkedIn
Map a market that lives on a public register, not in a people database
use whenyour buyers are listed on a public register or directory, such as a procurement framework, NHS trusts, councils or universities, and a database filter cannot find them
Pick the events where your target accounts will be in the room
use whenyour desk wins work face to face, and you want to know which conferences, trade shows and meetups in the coming months are worth the ticket and the travel
Publish a monthly hiring report for your niche from live job adverts
use whenyou want a short, repeatable report on who is hiring what in your market, for a client update, a newsletter or a LinkedIn post
See what employers are advertising for a role, from live job ads
use whena client or a candidate asks what a role pays in a location, and you want an answer built on ads that are live today, not on last year's survey
See where a competitor hires from and who is taking its people
use whenyou want to know which employers feed a competitor's team and which ones are hiring its people away, before you decide where to source next
Size a talent pool before you pitch for the role
use whena client is about to brief you, or you are about to quote a fee, and you want to know how many people actually exist before you promise anything
Turn a list of company names into facts you can qualify on
use whenyou have a list of company names or websites and cannot tell which are worth finding people at until you know their size, sector, funding and whether they are hiring
Turn any web page that lists companies or people into a prospect list
use whenyou have found a page that names the companies or people you want, such as an awards shortlist, a top 100 ranking, a membership directory or an accelerator cohort, and it is only a web page
Walk into a business development call with a one-page account brief
use whenyou have a business development call coming up, or a short list to ring, and you want to know the company before you dial
Qualification
The free filters that run before anything paid does.
Check a candidate's work history against their CV before you submit
use whenyou are about to send a candidate to a client, and you want the employers, titles and dates on the CV checked against their public profile first
Qualify a company list against your ICP before you pay to enrich it
use whena search returned a few hundred companies and you are about to spend real money finding contacts at all of them
Score a longlist against the rules your client never wrote down
use whenyou have a longlist and a spec, but the rules that really decide the shortlist were said on a call and never made it into the document
Screen any outreach list against your off-limits rules before it is loaded
use whena list is about to go into a sequence and you need to be sure no client, no off-limits company, no one in process and no past opt-out is on it
See the count and the cost before a search spends anything
use whenyou are about to run a search or an enrichment, and you want to know how many records it will touch and what it will cost before you say yes
Outreach
Put the list into a sequence without losing control of what gets sent.
Build an outreach sequence without losing control of the send
use whenyou have the list and now you need a cadence built, loaded and ready, with nothing going out until you say so
Build one cadence that moves between email, LinkedIn and the phone
use whenone channel is not getting answers and you want a single cadence where a contact who ignores the email meets a LinkedIn touch and then a call
Check your sending mailboxes and domain before a campaign goes out
use whena campaign is loaded and ready, and you want to know the mailboxes and the domain behind it are fit to send before you press start
Give the people who never replied a different reason to answer
use whena sequence has finished, most of the list said nothing, and sending the same pitch again is not a plan
Load a checked shortlist into the SourceWhale campaign you already run
use whenyour candidate outreach already runs in SourceWhale and you want the shortlist checked and loaded into a campaign, with the copy and the start left to you
Load a HeyReach campaign at a pace that keeps the LinkedIn account safe
use whenyou have a list to approach on LinkedIn through HeyReach and you do not want the sender's account restricted because of it
Review what your campaigns are doing and what to change next
use whencampaigns are running or finished across one or more sequencers and nobody has looked at which ones earn replies and which only use up the list
Sort campaign replies and put the ones that need you today at the top
use whena campaign is running and replies are arriving faster than anyone reads them
Write one sourced opening line per person on a list you have already built
use whenthe list is built and qualified, and the only thing between you and a generic mail merge is a first line that is actually about the person reading it
Operations
The admin around a desk: search briefs, daily reports, keeping records straight.
Get a one-page report on your desk from your own ATS every week
use whenyou want to start the week knowing which jobs are live, what moved, which jobs have gone quiet and who needs chasing, without clicking through every record
Post one role to every ATS you run, with one approval before it goes live
use whenthe same role has to be opened in more than one applicant tracking system and you are tired of typing it out in each
Start every morning with a short list of companies worth calling
use whenyou want the signal plays run for you on a schedule, as one short list each morning and not a query you have to remember
Turn a brief into a job advert a candidate would actually answer
use whenyou have a client's job description or your own brief, and what goes on the careers page has to be written for the candidate, not for the client's file
Turn a CV into an anonymised candidate profile for a spec email
use whenyou want to put a strong candidate in front of a hiring manager without giving away who they are
Turn a recorded briefing call into a search brief and its open questions
use whenyou have just taken a brief on a recorded call and want it written up properly before the search starts
Turn a recorded candidate interview into notes on the candidate's record
use whenyou have just interviewed a candidate on a recorded call and the notes need to be on their record before the next call pushes them out of your head
Write the candidate submission that goes to the client with the CV
use whenyou have interviewed a candidate you rate and the client is waiting for the CV and your reasons
Nothing here is locked to a vendor
Every play routes through whichever providers your workspace has. Swap the data source, swap the sequencer, bring your own keys where you already pay for a seat. The prompt does not change.