AI at Work: How to Use Claude for Smarter Hiring and Talent Decisions
August 18, 2026 1:00 PM ET
This session is part of the SHRM AI at Work webinar series. When registering, you will be prompted to select all the sessions you are interested in attending.
Hiring decisions generate an enormous amount of information — resumes, interview notes, assessments, transcripts, performance reviews, and feedback from multiple stakeholders. The challenge isn't collecting the data. It's analyzing it consistently, identifying meaningful patterns, and making confident talent decisions without spending hours reviewing documents.
In this hands-on session, you'll learn how to use Claude to more efficiently organize, analyze, and compare large volumes of hiring and talent data. Discover how AI can help surface insights, standardize evaluations, and strengthen hiring processes, while ensuring human judgment remains at the center of every talent decision.
Through live demonstrations, you'll see step-by-step how Claude can help you:
- Compare candidates using consistent criteria — Analyze resumes, interview notes, and feedback against the same evaluation framework to make more consistent hiring decisions.
- Turn interview data into actionable insights — Summarize interview transcripts, identify recurring strengths and concerns, and generate objective candidate comparisons in minutes.
- Identify high performers and emerging talent — Analyze performance reviews and employee feedback to uncover common traits, skills, and behaviors shared by your top talent.
Whether you're hiring your next employee, preparing for talent planning discussions, or looking for better ways to analyze workforce data, you'll leave with practical prompting techniques, repeatable workflows, and real-world examples you can apply immediately to make smarter, more informed talent decisions with Claude.
Meet the Presenter
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Nichol Bradford
As SHRM’s executive in residence for AI+HI, Nichol Bradford stands at the forefront of AI and human potential, accelerating transformation through technology investments, research, and global thought leadership. She is also the co-founder and partner of Niremia Collective, an early-stage venture fund focused on human potential technologies.
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