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As of 13 August 2026, AI can write a job offer email for a UK hire.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill needednone

Who has to check ita colleague

What the alternative costsThe available tool data gives no price for a comparable alternative.

If this goes wrong: the candidate relies on an incorrect term or an unintended promise, and the employer has to correct the offer or deal with a dispute.

What to actually do

  1. Hand it to a person

    The route this page recommends

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Do it yourself

    The distant third

    A chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open the approved hiring record, offer approval, role description and current HR policy, and gather the exact terms agreed for the candidate.
    2. Paste the candidate's name, job title, salary, hours, location, start date, reporting line, probation, holiday, notice, benefits, conditions and acceptance deadline into the prompt.
    3. Paste the prompt into a chatbot and ask it to produce the subject line, offer email and fact-check list without inventing missing terms.
    4. Compare every figure, date, condition and benefit in the draft with the approved hiring record and replace any wording that does not match.
    5. Ask an HR colleague to check that the email matches the intended offer, does not make an unintended promise and explains any conditional checks accurately.
    6. Send the checked email from the authorised employer account, keeping the approved terms and the final message with the recruitment records.

    Prompt

    Write a job offer email for a UK hire using only the approved information below. Invent nothing and do not fill gaps with assumptions. Use a warm, clear and professional tone without overpromising. State whether the offer is conditional and list the conditions exactly as supplied. Include the job title, department, reporting line, salary and pay frequency, working hours, work location, proposed start date, probation period, holiday entitlement, notice period, key benefits, acceptance deadline and next steps where those details are provided. Say that the full written statement of employment particulars and any contract documents will follow if that is accurate. Do not give employment-law advice or claim that the wording is legally compliant. If any important information is missing, list it under 'Needs confirmation' instead of guessing. Return a subject line, the email, and a short fact-check list.

Employer or organisation: [name]
Candidate name: [name]
Approved offer details: [paste the agreed terms]
Conditions or pre-employment checks: [paste the exact conditions, or write 'none']
Contact for questions: [name and contact details]
Acceptance deadline: [date or 'not set']

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot decide which employment terms the organisation is actually prepared to offer.
  • AI cannot know whether an informal phrase creates a commitment the employer did not intend to make.
  • AI cannot confirm that the offer email and the later written statement or contract meet every UK employment requirement.
  • AI cannot resolve contradictions between hiring approval, HR policy and what the hiring manager said verbally.
  • The employer remains accountable for the offer even when AI wrote the wording.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: legal accountability, judgement under ambiguity and verification cost.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification1
Liability1
Effort delta2
Total8 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can AI write a job offer email?
Yes. Give it the approved terms and it can draft a clear offer email, but a person must check every date, figure, condition and promise before sending.
Is an AI-written job offer email legally binding in the UK?
It can create contractual consequences depending on its wording and the surrounding circumstances, so do not assume it is informal or harmless. This is not professional advice. For a serious or disputed case, ask an employment solicitor to review it.
What should a UK job offer email include?
It should set out the approved role, pay, hours, location, start date, conditions, key benefits, acceptance process and any documents that will follow. Check it against your offer approval and employment paperwork rather than letting the model supply missing terms.
Can I use ChatGPT to make a job offer email?
Yes, for the drafting stage, provided you remove unnecessary personal data and paste only the terms you are authorised to share. An HR colleague should check the result, and an employment solicitor is appropriate for a complex, senior or disputed offer.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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