# Free AI resume screening Prompt (Recruiters)

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# Screen resumes with one free prompt

This page gives you a free, copy-ready prompt for this job (it screens applicants against your approved scorecard and returns one evidence card per candidate: criterion, evidence, gap, and the decision left to you), plus the $19 standing-agent version that runs it on repeat without re-pasting rules.

It screens applicants against your approved scorecard and returns one evidence card per candidate: criterion, evidence, gap, and the decision left to you. The prompt below is the do-it-yourself version.

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## The prompt

    Screen these applicants against my scorecard: [paste criteria, then paste each resume]. For every candidate and criterion, quote the exact resume line that counts as evidence, mark gaps as GAP, and leave a HUMAN DECISION column empty for me. Do not recommend hiring or rejecting anyone.

## What to bring

Twenty applicants for one role means twenty files, your scorecard open in another tab, and a decision you have to defend later. By applicant twelve the evidence blurs and the notes stop being consistent.

## What a good run returns

A Google Sheet in a Recruiter Screening Workspace folder: candidate, criterion, evidence, gap and a human-decision column. Every score shows the evidence it rests on.

## Where the free version ends

A prompt runs when you remember to run it, from whatever context you paste, and it forgets the rules between sessions. The [Screening Agent](/recruiters/screening-agent/) ($19 one-time) installs this as a standing workflow: fixed evidence rules, a saved output in your own Drive every run, fictional-data testing before real work, and hard stops before anything sends, spends or publishes. More detail on the [AI resume screening for recruiters guide](/agents-for/recruiters/resume-screening/).

## Questions people ask

### Is this prompt really free?

Yes. Copy it, paste it into any capable assistant, bring the inputs listed. No signup, no email gate.

### Which assistants does the prompt work in?

Any capable chat assistant: Instinct, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Hermes, OpenClaw, Town, Muse and others.

### What is the difference between the free prompt and the $19 agent?

The prompt is a one-off: you re-paste the rules every run. The $19 agent is the same job productized - tested setup, saved files, consistent output, standing cycle.

Last updated 13 September 2026 · Reviewed by the AI Agent Skills team.