Job Seeker Prompt: Job Posting to Fit Check and Next Steps
Ppromptstudio·Oct 11, 2026
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Paste a job posting and your real experience: get must-have vs nice-to-have, an evidence map, honest gap answers, an apply or skip call, and true resume edits.
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.