Job Seeker Prompt: Job Posting to Fit Check and Next Steps

Prompt

Act as a career coach and former in-house recruiter who reads a job posting line by line with a job seeker, matches each requirement to proof from their real work history, and helps them decide whether to apply without stretching a single fact.

Inputs:
- The full job posting, pasted: [JobPosting]
- My real experience: roles, dates, tools, and results I can back up: [MyExperience]
- My non-negotiables: pay floor, location, schedule: [MustHaves]
- Gaps I already know about: [KnownGaps]
- People I actually know at the company or in the field: [Contacts]
- Posting date and any application deadline: [PostingDates]

Generate:
1. Requirement split: must-have versus nice-to-have, quoting the posting's own words for each.
2. Evidence map: a table with each requirement, the matching line from MyExperience, and a rating of strong, partial, or none. Never fill a cell with experience I did not list.
3. Honest gap answers: for each partial or none, one true sentence I can say in an interview and one concrete step to close the gap.
4. Fit with MustHaves: pay, location, and schedule checked against the posting; flag anything the posting does not state.
5. Apply, ask first, or skip: one recommendation with three reasons.
6. Resume edits: three bullet rewrites that reword only facts in MyExperience to use the posting's terms where they are true.
7. Outreach note: under 90 words to one person in Contacts, asking a real question about the role, not a referral demand.
8. Questions to ask in the interview: three, each tied to a line in the posting.
9. Next three steps with dates counted from PostingDates.

Rules:
- Do not invent or round up years, titles, numbers, tools, or degrees.
- If a requirement is unclear, list it as a question, not a guess.
- Keep personal ID numbers out of every output.

Instructions

Paste the full job posting and your real experience into ChatGPT (it also works in Claude or Gemini). Everything on your resume, cover letter, and in interviews must be true: do not add titles, years, tools, or results you do not have, because employers check references and backgrounds. Leave out your Social Security number, date of birth, and ID numbers, and never pay to apply. This is career coaching help, not legal advice about employment contracts.

Generated Output

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Job Seeker Prompt: Job Posting to Fit Check and Next Steps - Result

Examples

Example Input

JobPosting: Customer Success Manager, Ledgerly (software for bookkeeping firms). Hybrid, Denver office 3 days a week. Requirements: 3+ years in a customer-facing SaaS role; manage a book of 40+ accounts; own renewals and expansion conversations; experience with HubSpot or Salesforce. Nice to have: bookkeeping or accounting background. Salary range $65,000 to $80,000. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis.
MyExperience: Account Coordinator at a payroll software company, February 2024 to now (2 years 8 months): onboard new small-business accounts, 31 onboarded in 2025; handle support tickets for about 25 active accounts at a time; use HubSpot daily for notes and tasks; built a renewal reminder checklist that my team adopted. Before that, bank teller for 2 years.
MustHaves: at least $68,000; hybrid up to 3 days is fine; commute under 45 minutes (I live in Denver).
KnownGaps: I have not owned renewals myself; my book is about 25 accounts, not 40.
Contacts: Priya, a former coworker from the payroll company who is now a CS team lead at Ledgerly.
PostingDates: posted Monday, October 5, 2026; rolling review.

Example Output

1. REQUIREMENT SPLIT
Must-have: "3+ years in a customer-facing SaaS role"; "manage a book of 40+ accounts"; "own renewals and expansion conversations"; "experience with HubSpot or Salesforce".
Nice to have: "bookkeeping or accounting background".

3. HONEST GAP ANSWERS
- Years: "I have 2 years 8 months working with customers at a payroll software company, and 2 years as a bank teller before that." Step: none needed beyond saying it plainly; do not round to 3.
- Book size: "I support about 25 active accounts at a time and onboarded 31 new accounts in 2025." Step: ask your manager to let you cover a teammate's accounts during their time off to show a larger load.
- Renewals: "I have not owned renewals, but I built the renewal reminder checklist my team uses." Step: ask to sit in on two renewal calls this month.
- Bookkeeping: "I have no bookkeeping background yet." Step: learn the basics of how a bookkeeping firm closes a month before the interview.

4. FIT WITH MUSTHAVES
- Pay: range $65,000 to $80,000 includes your $68,000 floor. Ask where the offer usually lands.
- Location: hybrid 3 days fits.
- Commute: the posting says "Denver office" with no address; check the address before you apply.

5. RECOMMENDATION: ASK FIRST, THEN APPLY
- Two must-haves are partial, so a quick word with Priya could tell you how strict they are.
- Pay and schedule fit.
- Rolling review means earlier is better, so ask this week.

6. RESUME EDITS (true facts only)
- "Onboarded 31 new small-business accounts in 2025 for a payroll software company, with notes and tasks tracked in HubSpot."
- "Support about 25 active customer accounts at a time, handling support tickets from first contact to resolution."
- "Built a renewal reminder checklist that the account team adopted."

7. OUTREACH NOTE TO PRIYA
"Hi Priya, I saw the Customer Success Manager opening at Ledgerly and I'm thinking about applying. I support about 25 accounts now and haven't owned renewals yet. Would you have 15 minutes this week to tell me how the team weighs the 40-account and renewal requirements? Thanks either way."

8. INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
- "How is a book of 40+ accounts split by size or stage?"
- "What does owning renewals look like in the first 90 days?"
- "Which of the three office days are fixed?"

9. NEXT STEPS
- By Wed Oct 14: send the note to Priya.
- By Fri Oct 16: update the three bullets and confirm the office address.
- By Mon Oct 19: apply, two weeks after the posting date.