What is Recruit GPT for Recruiters?

Recruit GPT is an AI-powered tool that uses large language models (LLMs) to automate and enhance recruitment tasks, such as candidate searching, screening and outreach.

Recruit GPT falls under the HeroHunt AI umbrella and is capable of searching 1 billion profiles using natural language prompts. In this article, we’ll review Recruit GPT and examine how it compares to our recruitment co-pilot, Kalent.

How Does Recruit GPT Work and What Does It Do?

Recruit GPT is an AI-powered recruitment tool created by HeroHunt. It is touted as “the ultimate people connection engine,” allowing recruiters to harness the power of GPT4 to find and engage with a talent pool of 8 billion people around the world.

Using RecruitGPT, you can search candidates on autopilot based on a simple job description or a single line of text describing what you’re looking for.

This is how it works:

Input Text Prompt

Sign in with Google or set up an account (you can try the tool for free but paid plans start at $149 per month), and then paste in your job description or a simple one-liner about your ideal candidate. Use keywords and popular search terms for the best results.

Recruit GPT Performs A Search

Recruit GPT will then translate your text prompt into a search, scanning over 1 billion profiles to find the best match using hundreds of billions of data points.

Get Matched with Candidates

The tool will match you with the best candidates, providing an actionable list of prospective hires from multiple platforms.

Contact Top Matches

With Recruit GPT, you can follow up with 200 candidates a day on autopilot. You can also personalize and optimize responses to a limited degree.

What Are the Benefits of Using Recruit GPT?

Recruit GPT uses a chat-based interface, making candidate outreach feel more like a conversation than a stilted, robotic back-and-forth. This is a major plus point and can help to engage promising candidates right from the first message.

The tool’s conversational search also allows non-technical recruiters to perform complex queries about specific roles, such as software engineering, which they might not inherently understand.

Recruit GPT can also shortlist hundreds of candidates and contact them automatically, with AI-driven ranking based on role relevance.

Undoubtedly, using Recruit GPT is way faster than manual search and outreach. It will reduce shortlisting time and save you from spending hours on the phone or writing emails every week. It also works at scale for high-volume recruiting teams who are keen to get candidates in the door and fill roles quickly.

What Are the Limitations of Recruit GPT?

Although it is a promising recruitment tool, Recruit GPT does have some limitations that prevent us from endorsing it further.

Firstly, it relies a little too heavily on automation, which risks damaging trust and undermining authenticity in candidate relationships. At Kalent, we don’t believe in a 100% automated approach for this reason. We think AI should help streamline and enhance the work of human recruiters, rather than replacing them completely – this is why we designed our platform, Kalent, to serve as a recruitment “co-pilot” to assist teams rather than replace vital human expertise.

Because of this overly automated approach, candidates may find mass outreach a bit “spammy,” which makes them less likely to respond. According to a report by Carmichael Fisher, most candidates prefer personalized outreach and assume that automated messages indicate that the company undervalues them.

Recruiters can also lose vital control over these interactions, and errors can arise that lead to miscommunication and lost candidate trust. This is why human oversight is so important, and it’s something we strongly advocate at Kalent!

Dependence on AI can also introduce mismatches, which not only damages the recruiter-candidate relationship but also impact the client. There is also a distinct lack of context-based personalization beyond role fit, and a limited ability to personalize engagement with candidates.

Because of these limitations, we don’t recommend Recruit GPT for senior talent acquisition or executive search, or for large or scaling teams that prioritize relationship-driven placements over volume.

Instead, we recommend Kalent – our recruitment co-pilot, designed to keep you in the loop, with high-quality candidate matches and personalized outreach.

How is Kalent Different from Recruit GPT?

Recruit GPT offers a fully automated recruitment process. At first glance, this might seem like a good thing, but too much automation can limit personalization and diminish your control when it comes to important tasks like candidate sourcing and outreach.

Kalent is different. We believe in a co-pilot model, whereby our intelligent AI handles all your sourcing and messaging, but keeps you in the loop.

We also integrate job ad context into search and outreach to ensure candidate messages are perfectly tailored. With personalized messages for WhatsApp, LinkedIn, email and SMS, our AI agent drafts the perfect pitch, and you hit send across multiple channels. You can also sync calendars with clients or candidates to easily book interviews and follow-ups.

In other words, those time-consuming tasks that take up hours of your week? Recruit GPT will do them for you, while Kalent does them with you.

When it comes to communication, Recruit GPT could easily be accused of treating candidates like datapoints, whereas Kalent approaches them as people, leading to better reply rates and a rock-solid industry reputation, which is important in the recruitment world.

And then there’s the process. Instead of relying on complex booleans, Kalent uses smart filters to source candidates professionally, giving you access to the most qualified talent database. Plus. all our data providers are GDPR compliant, ensuring you have complete ease of mind over client and candidate data handling.

You can also connect easily to tools like Greenhouse, Recruitee and Zoho for easy profile management and tool stacking. Though when it comes to recruiter tools, Kalent does it all in one place, so there should be no need for separate searching or outreach tools, making your processes a lot simpler and smoother, with fewer bottlenecks.

With Kalent, you can cut sourcing time by 50%, saving over 5 hours per week with AI-powered search. Crucially, you’ll still have oversight over the search and communication process – it will just be faster and more efficient.

In other words, you regain complete control while also enjoying the time-saving benefits of automation. It’s a win-win!

When Should You Use Recruit GPT vs Kalent?

Recruit GPT works best if you’re looking for a full automation solution for high-volume hiring, especially in more junior or transactional roles. It’s a solid, reliable tool in cases where speed is more important than personalization and relationship building, and if you don’t mind having limited control over your outreach process.

When recruiting for executives or specialized talent pools, or if your recruitment practices are relationship rather than data-driven, Kalent is a much better model for you. Our AI co-pilot is the ideal tool for recruiters who value candidate communication and want to have complete control over the selection and outreach process while still enjoying the benefits of automation.

Book Your Kalent Demo Today!

If you’re fed up with tools like Recruit GPT that rely too much on automation and give you limited control, it’s time to move to Kalent.

Our recruitment co-pilot will help you optimize your entire recruitment process, leading to reduced costs, streamlined processes and better talent.

Book a demo today and we’ll show you exactly what we can do for your recruitment needs.

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