AI-assisted description generation

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• nextal-ai

Let an AI assistant draft your job description from a short prompt — saving 15 minutes per job. You stay in control: review the draft and edit before saving.

Where to find it

Job detail → Description tab → AI button in the toolbar

Who can use it

Anyone with edit access on jobs, in an organisation that has AI features enabled.

Direct URL

https://app.nextal.com/jobs/<ID>?tab=description

🔒Requires permissions:Job Read, Job Edit

Writing a great job description from scratch takes time. The AI assistant in the description editor turns 15-30 minutes of work into a couple of clicks. It has four separate tools, each for a specific job:

• Title suggester — proposes job titles based on what’s already in the description.
• Generate / improve full description — drafts the whole job posting from a short prompt, or rewrites an existing one in a different tone.
• Generate short description — produces a one-paragraph summary suited for career-page cards and social media previews.
• Translate to other languages — auto-translates the full description into the other languages your organisation supports.

You stay in control: the AI proposes, you decide whether to accept. Nothing is published until you save the job.

Screenshot pendingThe Description tab with the AI assistant panel open: a prompt field at the top, action buttons for Generate / Improve / Short summary / Translate, and a preview area for the generated content.

The AI assistant panel. Four tools, each with its own button. Generated content shows in the preview area before you accept it.

Opening the AI assistant

1. Open a job

   Click any row in the jobs list.

2. Go to the Description tab

   Second tab from the left.

3. Look for the AI buttons

   The title suggester sits right below the Title field. The job description assistant sits between the Short Description and the Full Description fields.

Caution

AI integration required. The AI features only appear when your organisation has the AI integration activated. If you don’t see the AI buttons, ask your admin to enable AI in your organisation settings.

Tool 1 — Suggest a title

Screenshot pendingThe title suggester button right below the Title field, opening a popover with three or four suggested titles based on the current description, each with an "Accept" button.

The title suggester. Click Suggest, pick a title from the popover, click Accept to apply.

Useful when you’ve written a few paragraphs of description but can’t settle on the right title — or when you want a more accurate title than the placeholder you started with.

1. Click the title suggester button

   Right below the Title field.

2. Wait for the suggestions

   The AI reads your current title (if any) and full description, then proposes a few alternatives. Takes a few seconds.

3. Accept one

   Click the Accept button next to the suggestion you like. The title is updated and saved automatically.

Tool 2 — Generate or improve the full description

Screenshot pendingThe description assistant with two big buttons: Generate (when description is empty) and Improve (when description has content). A prompt field below to describe the role or the desired tone.

Generate when the description is empty; Improve when you want to refine an existing one. Both take a short prompt.

This is the workhorse — it produces the bulk of the job posting.

Generating from scratch

1. Click Generate

   Available when the full description is empty.

2. Describe the role

   A short prompt like “Senior backend engineer specialising in distributed systems, remote, 5+ years”. The more specific you are, the better the draft.

3. Wait for the draft

   Generation takes 5-15 seconds depending on complexity.

4. Review and accept

   The draft appears in the preview area. Read it. If it works, click Accept — the draft fills in the Full Description field. If not, refine your prompt and try again.

Improving an existing description

1. Click Improve

   Available when the full description already has content.

2. Describe what you want

   A short instruction like “more friendly tone”, “shorter, focus on benefits”, or “add more about the engineering culture”.

3. Wait for the rewrite

   Same 5-15 seconds.

4. Compare and accept

   The improved version appears in the preview area, often side by side with the original. Pick which to keep.

Tool 3 — Generate the short description

Screenshot pendingThe "Generate short summary" button in the AI assistant, with a preview of a one-paragraph summary derived from the full description.

The short summary tool. Reads your full description and produces a one-paragraph version for career-page cards.

The short description is a one-paragraph summary that appears on career-page job cards and in social media previews. Writing a good short summary that captures the essence of a long description is hard — the AI does this for you in one click.

1. Make sure the full description is written

   The AI summarises whatever is in the Full Description field. If it’s empty, generate that first.

2. Click the short summary button

   Inside the AI assistant panel.

3. Wait for the summary

   Takes about 5 seconds.

4. Accept

   The summary is written into the Short Description field and saved automatically. Edit afterwards if needed.

Tool 4 — Translate into other languages

Screenshot pendingThe translation tool showing the source language on the left, and target languages on the right with checkboxes. A Translate button at the bottom and a preview of each translation.

Pick which target languages to translate into. Get one draft per target language, all ready to accept in one go.

Your organisation can support multiple languages (English, French, Spanish). Once you’ve written the description in one language, the AI can translate it into the others — keeping HTML formatting, lists, and links intact.

1. Write the description in one language

   The source — usually whichever language you wrote first.

2. Open the translation tool

   Inside the AI assistant panel.

3. Pick the target languages

   Tick the languages you want translations for. Languages that already have content are pre-flagged so you don’t accidentally overwrite work.

4. Click Translate

   The AI generates one translation per target language. Takes 10-30 seconds depending on description length and number of languages.

5. Review each translation

   Each language gets a preview. Read them — pay attention to client names, product names, and place names (those sometimes get translated by mistake).

6. Apply

   Click Apply to write all the translations into their respective language slots. The job saves automatically.

Caution

Review translations. Always re-read translated descriptions before publishing. Client names, product names and brand names sometimes get translated literally. Acceptable in your hands; embarrassing if a candidate sees “Acme Corp” rendered as “Société Acme” on the public job page.

Who can do what

What you want to do	What you need
See the AI buttons	Edit access on jobs, plus AI integration enabled by your admin
Suggest a title	Same
Generate / improve the full description	Same
Generate the short description	Same — plus a full description to summarise
Translate	Same — plus your organisation must support more than one language

Tips

• Generate first, then improve. The Improve tool can sharpen a draft the AI just produced — useful when the first attempt is “close but not quite”.
• Be specific in prompts. “Senior backend engineer in Go and Kubernetes, fully remote, 6+ years” beats “Backend engineer”.
• Use the AI for the boring parts. Responsibilities, requirements, and the why-join-us pitch are where the AI shines. The company-specific tone is best added by you.
• Always check translated brand names. The model sometimes localises proper nouns that should stay as-is.
• Generate short descriptions last. The short description is a summary of the full one. Writing the long version first gives the AI more to work with.