Overview
GeMCP lets you connect Gem to an AI assistant (think Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, or the like) that supports MCP, so you can ask questions about your Gem data in plain language.
Use GeMCP when you want to:
- Summarize candidate, job, Project, or pipeline information.
- Ask follow-up questions about recruiting activity.
- Explore analytics or dashboard-style questions.
- Create repeatable digests or summaries from Gem data.
- Use supported write actions where they are available and permitted.
This article covers how to use GeMCP, including advice on effective prompts.
MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. Gem's MCP server gives your connected AI assistant a governed way to use supported Gem tools and data, based on your existing Gem permissions.
Requirements
- You must have connected GeMCP in your AI assistant (refer to Set up GeMCP for more details).
- You must be signed in to the correct Gem account.
- You must have access in Gem to the candidates, Jobs, Projects, analytics, or dashboards you want to ask about.
- Your organization must allow the use of your selected AI assistant with Gem data.
Write effective prompts
With GeMCP set up, you can ask your AI assistant questions about the Gem data that you have permission to access.
The best prompts are specific enough to point GeMCP toward the right data, but conversational enough that you can keep refining the answer. Start with a real recruiting question, then ask follow-up questions the same way you would with a teammate.
When you’re not sure what to ask, give your AI two things:
- Context: What you are looking at, trying to understand, or responsible for.
- Outcome: What you want to decide, create, confirm, or do next.
Then ask your AI to follow up with questions before answering.
Starter prompt:
I am looking at [context] and trying to [outcome]. Ask me any follow-up questions you need before you answer.
A few tips:
- Swap in your own candidates, roles, Projects, teams, and date ranges (i.e. wherever you see a word [in brackets] make sure to replace it with something relevant to your organization).
- Start with one role, candidate, or Project before asking for broader analysis.
- Ask follow-up questions to narrow, reformat, or validate the answer.
- If a broad question returns too much, ask for a simpler summary or a specific table.
- For analytics and dashboard-style questions, make sure your Gem account has access to the relevant product features.
Summarize candidates and feedback
Use these prompts when you want a fast summary of a candidate, application, or interview feedback.
- Find [candidate name] and summarize their profile, current stage, and recent activity.
- Pull the interview feedback for [candidate] across all rounds and tell me where the panel agrees and where it is split.
- Review the candidates in [Project] against the Job description and provide a yes/maybe/no read with reasoning.
- Analyze scorecards and hiring manager notes for [role] and surface common themes, red flags, and where reviewers disagree.
💡 What you can build: A pre-debrief summary that shows panel consensus and conflict points across every scorecard for a candidate, so the hiring team walks into the debrief already knowing where to focus.
Review pipeline health and status
Use these prompts when you want a plain-language view of role, pipeline, or requisition health.
- Summarize the pipeline for the [role] search. How many candidates are at each stage, and who has been sitting longest?
- What is the status of the [role] search? Give me a pipeline summary, the latest interview feedback, and what is waiting for me.
- Summarize where things stand across all the roles I am hiring for this quarter.
- What are the top risks or bottlenecks in this pipeline?
💡 What you can build: A weekly pipeline risk digest that flags any role whose time-in-stage has crept past your team's benchmark, so you catch a stalling search before it becomes a missed hire.
Find follow-up actions
Use these prompts when you want to find candidates or activities that need attention.
- Which candidates are pending my review or feedback right now?
- Show me candidates who replied in the last two weeks but have not moved to a new stage.
- Across my open requisitions, who are the strongest candidates I have not followed up with recently?
- List silver medalists for [role] who received positive feedback, but we did not end up hiring.
💡 What you can build: A standing "warm bench" list that resurfaces well-reviewed silver-medalist candidates against every newly opened requisition, so recruiters check there before starting a search from scratch.
Analyze reporting, analytics, and trends
Use these prompts when you want a higher-level view of performance, trends, or recruiting operations.
- What is our average time to fill for [role] this quarter compared to last quarter?
- What is our offer acceptance rate by department, and how has it trended?
- Which sourcing channels produced the most hires over the last six months?
- Show me this quarter's hires joined with their opening and offer information.
- Build a chart summarizing pipeline trends for [role/team] that I can bring to a leadership review.
💡 What you can build: A leadership-ready trend chart comparing time-to-fill and offer acceptance rate quarter over quarter, so you walk into a leadership review with the "why" already attached to the number.
Review sourcing and outreach performance
Use these prompts when you want to understand sourcing or outreach performance.
- Which of my active outreach Sequences have the highest reply rates, and what do the top performers have in common?
- Which sourcing channels are producing the strongest candidates for [role/team]?
- What outreach patterns are working best for [role]?
💡 What you can build: A monthly sourcing scorecard that ranks channels and sequences by reply-to-hire conversion, so you can shift sourcing spend toward what's actually converting.
Create digests and summaries
Use these prompts when you want repeatable summaries you can review or share.
- Build me a weekly hiring digest for Monday mornings, including new candidates, stage moves, upcoming interviews, and offers out.
- Give me a one-page hiring update for [role/team] that I can share with a hiring manager.
- Summarize the most important recruiting updates for [team] this week.
💡 What you can build: A Monday-morning hiring digest that arrives pre-built in your inbox — new candidates, stage moves, and offers out — with zero manual pulling.
Additional resources
To learn more about GeMCP, check out the following resources.
Have any issues or questions on this topic? Please feel free to contact your dedicated Gem Customer Success Manager directly or our Support team at support@gem.com.