Application materials · Level Starter · Job hunting Job hunting Decision
Comparing offers: beyond monthly pay
Two offers with close pay and no clear choice.
Prompt
One criterion: can a hiring manager tell in twenty seconds that you have done this job. Actions and results, never adjectives.
Task: Two offers with close pay and no clear choice.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- full package of both
- the work and growth
- commute and stability
- my three-year goal
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- split into cash, benefits, time cost, growth, risk
- convert commute and overtime into hourly pay
- say which factor matters most in three years
- give a decision rule, not a verdict
[Process]
1. Read the job description and extract the three things they screen for
2. Rewrite each experience as context, my action, result
3. Delete unverifiable adjectives
4. Mirror their vocabulary without inventing
5. Name the weakest link
[Output]
Rewritten material, what was cut, what evidence is missing.
[Do not]
- Never invent experience or numbers
- No 'expert' or 'proficient'
- Never one resume for every role
- Do not present duties as achievementsWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- full package of both
- the work and growth
- commute and stability
- my three-year goal
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- split into cash, benefits, time cost, growth, risk
- convert commute and overtime into hourly pay
- say which factor matters most in three years
- give a decision rule, not a verdict