1. Set up
Try a plugin
The Human Resources plugin ships with /draft-offer and other recruiting skills as a starting point, already structured to fill an offer template, draft the email, and lay out the call deck. If your admin manages plugins and it's not available yet, skip this; nothing below requires it.
Connect your tools
Claude Cowork is more powerful when it works directly with your systems. You control permissions and access. Learn about tool access(opens in new tab).
Navigate to Customize → Connectors in Cowork to set up.
Set your working folder
Drag the files you'll use (the candidate summary, your offer letter template, the comp approval, the benefits one-pager) into one folder on your machine, then point Cowork at it. Cowork reads from it and writes the filled offer, the email draft, and the HTML deck back to it. If you run offers regularly, create a Cowork project(opens in new tab) from the role's offers folder so your templates and tone stay attached.
2. The prompt
Copy this into Claude Cowork
Put together the offer package for our finalist. Fill out the offer fields for my review, draft a warm email to the candidate that sets up the call, and build a short HTML presentation I can screenshare on the offer call covering the role, the numbers, and why we're excited about them.
Why this works
Ask for related outputs together. Naming the email, the filled offer, and the deck in one prompt means the three artifacts agree on title, numbers, and start date because they were written together.
Say the output is for review. "Fill out the offer fields for my review" makes the output a draft you approve, so nothing goes to the candidate or to signature until a person has checked the numbers.
Ask for personalized content. "Why we're excited about them" pulls specifics from the candidate summary into the screenshare, so the call opens on what they bring rather than a generic pitch.
Put your source files in the folder. The offer template, the approved numbers, and the benefits one-pager sit in the working folder, so the filled offer and the deck quote your real terms and land back next to them.
Get a better draft
Add an example to match. Drop an example you like into the folder and Cowork matches your structure and voice.
Ask it to flag uncertainty. Add "flag anything you're not confident about" so you know where to look first when you review the draft.
3. Make Cowork work for you
A plugin skill is a starting point — customize it with your own practices and expertise. A few minutes of conversation and it runs with your standards from then on.
Make what we've done in this task so far into a skill, or edit the /draft-offer skill with my feedback.
4. Make it repeatable
Run it on a schedule
Type /schedule in the prompt, or open Scheduled in the Cowork sidebar, and the customized skill runs every weekday morning. It checks the hiring folder for candidates who moved to Offer overnight so the package is ready before the recruiter opens it.
/schedule Weekdays at 9am. Check the hiring folder for candidates who moved to Offer overnight, run /draft-offer for each, and write the email draft, filled offer, and HTML deck to Hiring/<role>/offers.
Runs /draft-offer each weekday morning for any candidate who moved to Offer overnight and writes the email, filled offer, and deck to the role's offers folder.
5. Share with your teammates
Your customized /draft-offer now carries your offer template, your email tone, and your branded deck layout. Share it so every recruiter and hiring manager produces the same quality of offer artifact, and candidates get a consistent experience no matter which team is closing them.