Application materials · Level Starter · Job hunting Job hunting Fit
Role fit: is it worth applying
A posting and uncertainty about whether I qualify.
Prompt
One criterion: can a hiring manager tell in twenty seconds that you have done this job. Actions and results, never adjectives.
Task: A posting and uncertainty about whether I qualify.
[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:
- requirements one by one
- my evidence
- what I lack
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- mark each as evidenced, partial, missing
- name the most likely rejection reason
- conclude: apply, build one piece first, or skip
- how to address the gap if applying
[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.
- requirements one by one
- my evidence
- what I lack
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.
- mark each as evidenced, partial, missing
- name the most likely rejection reason
- conclude: apply, build one piece first, or skip
- how to address the gap if applying