Practical shortcuts
Start with a useful question. Add your real details. Keep what helps.
Know your story · 5 minutes
See where your experience already fits.
Review the experience I paste below. Identify the business problems I solved, the transferable skills I used, and three role families where that evidence is valuable. Explain each match. Do not inflate my experience. Experience: ...
Aim · 5 minutes
Find out if a role is a real fit before you apply.
Act like an experienced recruiter. Compare my background with this job description. Separate must-have gaps from learnable gaps. Tell me whether to apply, what to emphasize, and what not to claim. Background: ... Job description: ...
Apply · 3 minutes
Five realistic actions and one result by Friday.
Create a practical first-week plan for this goal. Give me five actions in priority order, the reason for each, and one result I should have by Friday. Keep the plan realistic for the time and budget I provide. Goal: ... Time and budget: ...
Know your story · 10 minutes
Turn duties into results you can actually say out loud.
I will describe my last role. Ask me questions one at a time to find results, not duties. Look for scope, time saved, money, people, quality, and risk. If I do not have numbers, help me describe the scale honestly without inventing anything. When we finish, give me five result statements I can use on a resume and in interviews. My role: ...
Know your story · 5 minutes
A clear answer to "tell me about yourself."
Using only the experience I paste, draft a 60-second answer to "tell me about yourself" for this target role. Give me three versions: direct, warm, and short. Plain spoken, no buzzwords. Flag anything I should confirm is accurate before I say it. Experience: ... Target role: ...
Aim · 3 minutes
Decode what the job really needs before you apply.
Act like an experienced recruiter. Read this job description and tell me: the three things they will screen for first, what is flexible, wording that signals the real problem the team has, possible red flags, and five questions I should ask in the first interview. Be direct. Job description: ...
Apply · 10 minutes
Match your real experience to the job, without stretching it.
Compare my resume with this job description. List the keywords and skills the job wants that I can honestly support, the ones I cannot, and the bullets I should move up. Suggest rewrites using only facts already in my resume. Where a bullet needs proof I have not given, ask me for it instead of guessing. Resume: ... Job description: ...
Apply · 10 minutes
Rank the likely reasons and test fixes over two weeks.
Act like a hiring manager. Review my resume and my recent applications. Give me the five most likely reasons I am not getting responses, ranked by likelihood, with the evidence for each. Then give me a two-week test plan: what to change first, how to tell if it worked, and what to leave alone. Resume: ... Applications: ...
Apply · 5 minutes
Short, specific, and true.
Write a cover letter of 150 to 200 words for this job using only facts I provide. Match the tone of my writing sample. Open with why this company, not with my name. If you need a fact to make a point, ask me first. No clichés and no claims I cannot back up. Job description: ... My experience: ... Writing sample: ...
Money and school · 10 minutes
Sort out grants, Workforce Pell, payment plans, and what to ask before you pay for anything.
You are a practical education funding advisor. My situation: .... The program or school I am considering: .... What I have already looked into: .... Use only the facts I gave you. If something is missing, ask me before you answer. Do not invent program names, dollar amounts, or eligibility rules. Give me: 1) the funding types most likely to fit my situation, in order, 2) the exact questions I should ask the school or program before I pay anything, 3) one thing I should not do yet.
Apply · 10 minutes
Be findable and be clear.
Rewrite my LinkedIn headline and About section. Give me three headline options and one About section. Use words a recruiter in my target field would search for. Keep it honest and in my voice. List five keywords you used and why. Current profile: ... Who should find me: ...
Money and school · 10 minutes
Put two programs side by side on total cost, time, and what graduates actually get.
You are a skeptical program comparison assistant. Program A: .... Program B: .... What matters most to me: .... Use only the facts I gave you. If a cost, length, or outcome is missing, ask me for it instead of guessing. Do not invent statistics or outcomes. Build a side-by-side comparison of total real cost (tuition plus fees plus time not working), time to finish, and likely outcome. Then tell me which one you would pick for my priorities and why, and what I should verify before enrolling.
Midlife and health navigation · 10 minutes
Walk in with a short list of questions and what you need from the visit, so you do not leave wishing you had asked.
You are helping me prepare for a doctor's appointment. What I want to bring up: .... How long this has been going on: .... What I am worried the doctor will dismiss: .... Use only the facts I gave you. If something is missing, ask me. Do not diagnose anything and do not suggest treatments. Give me: 1) a short ordered list of questions to ask, 2) one sentence I can use to open the conversation, 3) what to ask for if I feel brushed off. Reminder: this is not medical advice. It is a way to organize your own questions before your visit.
Caregiving and family · 10 minutes
Map the week around appointments, meds, work, and one hour that is yours.
You are a practical weekly planner for a caregiver. Who I care for and what they need this week: .... My own obligations this week (work, kids, appointments): .... What keeps falling through the cracks: .... Use only the facts I gave you. If something is missing, ask me. Build a realistic day-by-day plan for the week that covers care tasks and my obligations, flags the two most likely breaking points, and protects one hour that is mine. Suggest one task I could hand off or drop this week.
Life design · 15 minutes
Break one big goal into a 90-day plan with weekly moves you can actually keep.
You are a practical planning assistant. My big goal: .... Where I am starting from: .... How much time I can realistically give each week: .... Use only the facts I gave you. If something is missing, ask me. Break the goal into three 30-day phases. For each phase give me the one outcome that matters and the weekly moves to get there. Keep weekly moves small enough to survive a bad week. End with what I should do in the next 7 days and one thing I should not do yet.
Money and school · 15 minutes
Build a simple budget around your real numbers and real habits, not an ideal version of you.
You are a no-judgment budgeting assistant. My monthly take-home income: .... My fixed bills and amounts: .... Where my money actually goes that I do not track well: .... What I am saving for or paying down: .... Use only the facts I gave you. If a number is missing, ask me for it. Do not invent interest rates or balances. Build a simple monthly budget with my real numbers, keep it to a few categories I can actually track, name the one leak to fix first, and give me a rule for what happens when the month goes sideways.
Interview · 15 minutes
Practice out loud, one question at a time.
Act as the interviewer for this role. Ask me one question at a time, starting with the most likely ones. After each of my answers, tell me what was clear, what was vague, and what a hiring manager might doubt. Then ask me to try again, shorter. Do not move on until I have a solid answer. Job description: ... My experience: ...
Interview · 5 minutes
Gaps, layoffs, and career changes, said honestly and briefly.
Help me answer this hard interview question honestly. Draft three versions in my voice: 20 seconds, 45 seconds, and 90 seconds. Each one should be calm, true, and end on what I am focused on now. Do not blame anyone and do not add details I did not give you. Question: ... The true story: ...
Interview · 3 minutes
Questions that show you thought about the work.
Read this job description and write ten questions I can ask an interviewer. Group them into the team, the first 90 days, how success is measured, and the manager. Mark the three strongest. Do not include questions already answered in the posting. Job description: ...
Offer and negotiation · 15 minutes
Rehearse the question that makes people freeze.
Role-play a recruiter asking about my salary expectations. Ask one question at a time and react like a real recruiter. After each answer, coach me on wording. Then write a short script for giving a range, responding to a lowball, and countering an offer. You cannot verify market pay, so tell me what to research and where, instead of quoting numbers. Role and location: ... My range: ...
Offer and negotiation · 10 minutes
Decide with your priorities, not just the number.
First, ask me to rank my priorities if I have not. Then compare these two offers on total pay, growth, flexibility, stability, and risk. Show it in a table. Do not recommend anything until you have restated my priorities. Then tell me which questions I should still ask each employer. Offer A: ... Offer B: ... My priorities: ...
Network · 3 minutes
Short, specific, and easy to say yes to.
Write three versions of a message to this person under 80 words each: a former colleague, a warm contact, and a stranger. Make one clear ask that is easy to say yes or no to. No flattery, no long backstory. Who: ... My ask: ... What we have in common: ...
Work and promotion · 15 minutes
Evidence, the ask, and the pushback.
Help me prepare to ask for a promotion. Use only the evidence I give you. Draft a one-page case, the exact ask in two sentences, and the three objections I am most likely to hear with calm responses. List what I should gather before the meeting. Roles: ... Evidence: ...
Work and promotion · 10 minutes
Options, notes to keep, and who to talk to. Not legal advice.
Act like an experienced HR leader. I will describe a workplace situation. Give me my realistic options, what to document and how, questions to ask HR or my manager, and signs that I should talk to an employment attorney. State clearly where you are guessing. This is not legal advice. Situation: ...
Build your assistant · 10 minutes
A 10-minute morning routine your AI assistant can run for you.
Design a 10-minute morning routine for my AI assistant to run on my job search. It should list my top three actions for today, any follow-ups due, one person to reach out to, and what to log at the end of the day. Write it as a block of instructions I can paste into my AI tool's custom instructions or project settings. Keep it short and realistic for my time. Goal: ... Time available: ...