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AI cheat sheet: powerful prompts drive powerful results
May 19, 2025
This prompt cheat sheet is designed to help you harness the full potential of generative AI within your workforce strategy. Whether you’re uncovering hidden cost savings or enhancing the quality of your talent pool, these purpose-built prompts align with real business outcomes.
Example 1: Uncovering hidden savings opportunities
Business context: When you want to uncover hidden opportunities in your contingent workforce program
Data needed: Beeline Cost Savings Analytics or similar
Beeline Cost Savings Analytics or similar.
Note: Equivalent dataset could be built from detailed reporting of all contractors by job title, location, manager, and supplier. Calculations would need to include budget savings (accepted rate – request rates), negotiated savings (accepted rate – submitted rate), and competitive savings (accepted rate – typical submitted rate).
Initial prompt:
“Create an executive summary about cost savings to use in a presentation to my leadership. Focus on MM/DD/YYYY to MM/DD/YYYY. Provide key facts by savings model, list key savings drivers, and key opportunities for improvement. Use simple language and anticipate questions.”
Dig deeper:
“Help me target where I should focus negotiation training, if assignments with an offer bill rate above the submitted bill rate indicate negotiation training is needed. List the top ten job titles as well as the managers hiring for these jobs.” “Help me target where I should focus market analysis, if assignments with an offer bill rate above the typical bill rate indicate rate card is not aligned with the market. List the top ten job titles as well as the relevant country and state.”
Zoom out:
“What market influences are affecting my savings and unrealized savings?”
Get strategic:
“Create a cost savings playbook based on these insights.”
Helps you uncover:
- Effective negotiation opportunities
- Supplier competition dynamics
- Market rate fluctuations
Example 2: What you ask for is what you get
Business context: When you want to upgrade a job description to attract higher quality candidates
Data needed: Job description and resumes of current candidates as well as successful previous hires
Initial prompt:
“How good was my pool of candidates?”(Attached job description and all candidates submitted)
Dig deeper:
“Rewrite this job description using the language and skills patterns found in the attached resumes to attract more of the ideal candidates. Show me a side-by-side comparison.” (Attach job description and 10-20 resumes of successful previous hires)
Helps you uncover:
- Validation that your job description attracted the intended talent
- Higher quality in first-time submissions
- Faster hires
Generative Al is only as powerful as the questions you ask. With the right prompts—and the right data—you can unlock insights that were once buried in spreadsheets or trapped in routine tasks. Use this cheat sheet as a starting point to explore, experiment, and evolve your approach to workforce strategy.
Stay curious. Start small. Move fast.
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