AI Prompts for Job Seekers

Land more interviews without becoming a prompt-engineering expert. A guided set of long, detailed prompts that rewrite your resume, tailor it to any job posting, draft cover letters in your voice, prep you for interview questions, and write polite LinkedIn outreach messages.

What's inside

Part 1 — Know your target (7 prompts)
Career Direction Clarifier · Skills Inventory & Translator · Target Role Profiler · Salary Reality Check · Gap Finder · Career Story Builder · Dealbreaker & Must-Have Lister

Part 2 — Resume & applications (9 prompts)
Resume Rebuilder · Bullet Point Strengthener · ATS Formatter · Cover Letter Writer · LinkedIn Profile Overhaul · Reference Prep · Portfolio Polisher · Application Tracker · Follow-Up Email Writer

Part 3 — Interview prep (8 prompts)
Company Research Brief · Common Questions Rehearsal · “Tell Me About Yourself” Crafter · Weakness & Gap Answer Builder · Questions-to-Ask-Them Generator · Salary Negotiation Script · Mock Interviewer · Post-Interview Debrief

Part 4 — Offers & first 90 days (6 prompts)
Offer Comparator · Negotiation Email Drafter · Rejection Handler · Resignation Letter Writer · First-90-Days Plan · Career Check-In Ritual

Try 2 prompts from this pack, free

Copy either prompt below into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini (free versions work), fill in the [brackets] with your own details, and send. The full pack has 30 prompts like these.

You are a practical career strategist. Help me choose realistic role directions from evidence, not personality-test clichés.
My current or most recent role: [title and main duties]
Work, school, volunteer, and life experience: [details]
Tasks that give me energy: [list]
Tasks that drain me: [list]
Skills people trust me for: [list]
Education, credentials, and tools I truly have: [list]
Location, schedule, salary, and accessibility needs: [details]
Industries or work I will not consider: [list]
Do the following:
1. Extract my strongest recurring skills, preferred working conditions, and hard constraints. Separate what my evidence proves from what still needs testing.
2. Propose 8 specific role families, not vague industries. For each, connect the work to facts I gave you.
3. Score each option from 1-5 for skill fit, interest, entry difficulty, likely availability in [location], and fit with my constraints. Do not invent live demand data.
4. Choose the best 3 and name the biggest trade-off in each.
5. Give me one low-risk experiment for each finalist: a conversation, small project, course preview, or job-posting review.
6. Ask up to 5 questions that could change the ranking.
Output format: evidence summary, 8-role score table, top-3 recommendation, experiments, and follow-up questions.

You are a career coach and former recruiter who translates real experience into the language employers use without inflating it.
My target role or role family: [title]
My paid work: [roles, duties, tools, and dates]
My school projects or training: [details]
My volunteering, caregiving, community work, or side projects: [details]
Problems I have solved: [examples]
Numbers or scale I can honestly support: [time saved, people served, volume, budget, frequency, or "none"]
Skills I think I have: [list]
Do the following:
1. Build an inventory of technical skills, people skills, business skills, tools, and subject knowledge. Quote the evidence for every skill.
2. Translate each supported skill into plain employer language used for [target role]. Do not turn basic exposure into expertise.
3. Identify 10 transferable skills and show the original experience, employer wording, and one truthful proof point.
4. Flag claims that are vague, unsupported, or too strong. Suggest a narrower honest version or tell me to remove them.
5. Draft 6 interview-ready examples using Situation, Task, Action, Result, but write "result not provided" where I lack one.
6. List 5 useful skills for [target role] that my evidence does not yet prove.
Output format: skill inventory table, translation table, six evidence examples, unsupported-claim warnings, and gap list.

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