Career & Job Search AI prompts
Prompts for the parts of a job search that take the longest: tailoring a resume to a posting, drafting a cover letter, rehearsing interview answers, and planning a career move. Fill in your own experience and the target role to get something you can actually send.
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92 Career & Job Search prompts
- Accept a job offer in writing and confirm the termsA professional acceptance email that locks in agreed terms, plus a checklist of what to confirm before resigning.
- Apply for an internal promotion or transferWrites an internal application letter and a talking-points sheet for a promotion or move to another team in your company.
- Ask a former manager to be my referenceWrites a polite reference request to a former manager or colleague, with a short brief that makes it easy for them to say yes.
- Assess whether I'm ready for the next roleCompares your capabilities to the expectations of a target role and shows the gaps.
- Build a 90-day career action planA focused 90-day plan to move your career forward.
- Build a bank of STAR stories for behavioral interviews8-10 polished stories from your experience, mapped to the competencies interviewers test most often.
- Build a career exploration plan for a high school studentA month-by-month career exploration program for a teen, built around their strengths and interests, covering college and non-college paths.
- Build a job application tracker in Google Sheets or ExcelA ready-to-build tracker for applications, contacts, and follow-ups, with status rules, reminders, and a weekly review routine.
- Build a learning plan to close my career-switch gapsA realistic, time-boxed plan to gain the missing skills, with a portfolio project that proves them to employers.
- Build a master career profile from my LinkedIn data exportConverts your LinkedIn export into a consistent, reusable Markdown career profile for resumes, cover letters, and AI prompts.
- Build a promotion evidence file from my work historyTurns scattered wins into an organized record of impact, mapped to the criteria for your target level.
- Check how well I fit a job — before I applyAn honest fit assessment: matches, gaps, red flags, and how to position yourself.
- Check my resume for applicant tracking systems (ATS)Reviews your resume for ATS readability and keyword match against a job description, with a prioritised list of honest fixes.
- Choose a professional certification and plan to pass itCompares certification options for your career goal, then builds a study plan from the official exam objectives with hands-on practice.
- Compare graduate programs and plan my applicationA side-by-side comparison of MBA or master's programs against your goals, plus a realistic application timeline and checklist.
- Create a brag sheet for teachers writing my recommendationAn organized brag sheet with specific examples that helps teachers or counselors write a strong, detailed recommendation letter.
- Cut my resume down to one pageShortens a long resume to one page by keeping what matters most for the target role and tightening every line.
- Decide which skills to build and which to drop this yearA prioritized 12-month skills plan: what to master, what to learn before it loses value, and what to stop investing in.
- Evaluate a job offerCompares total compensation, growth, and risk so you can decide (and negotiate) with confidence.
- Evaluate an internal job opening before I applyA clear-eyed assessment of an internal role, including fit, risks, and what you'd need to learn before applying.
- Explain a career gap on my resume and in interviewsHelps you present a career gap honestly and confidently on a resume, in a cover letter line and as a short interview answer.
- Explore which college major fits meA structured exploration of possible majors based on your interests and strengths, with low-risk ways to test each one.
- Figure out my career directionExplores paths that fit your strengths, values, and constraints, and how to test them.
- Find a topic where I can become my team's go-to expertIdentifies an expertise niche your team needs and no one owns, plus a 90-day plan to become the internal expert.
- Find and apply for my first internshipA step-by-step internship search plan for students with little experience, from target list to applications and follow-ups.
- Find my skill gaps for a goalCompares your current skills to a target and builds a plan to close the gaps.
- Find new responsibilities I could own as AI changes my teamSpots emerging work created by AI adoption that you could volunteer for, with a pitch to your manager.
- Find the parts of my job where human expertise matters mostPinpoints where your judgment, relationships, and domain depth create the most value, and where to go deeper.
- Follow up after interviews when I haven't heard backWell-timed follow-up messages for silence, delays, or rejection, including how to ask for feedback.
- Get a recruiter-style critique of my resumeGets a frank, prioritised critique of your resume from a recruiter's six-second-scan point of view, with specific rewrites.
- Hand over my work before moving to a new teamA structured handover plan and document so your old team keeps running smoothly after you move.
- Make the case for my promotion from SDR to account executiveA promotion case built on your results, closing-readiness evidence, and a plan for ramping as an AE.
- Map how AI will change my job, task by taskBreaks your role into tasks and shows which are likely to be automated, augmented by AI, commoditized, or stay human-led.
- Message hiring managers and network for a jobShort, personal messages to hiring managers, recruiters, and contacts that get responses.
- Negotiate my salary or a raiseResearch, a target number, scripts, and responses for salary and raise conversations.
- Negotiate the non-salary terms of a job offerA plan and wording to negotiate title, remote work, start date, time off, and other terms beyond base pay.
- Optimize my LinkedIn profileHeadline, About section, and experience entries that make recruiters and clients reach out.
- Pick which projects belong in my portfolio for a target roleYour projects scored against what real job postings ask for, the 3-5 to feature, and the gaps to fill.
- Picture my job in 3 years, including an AI-native versionSketches realistic scenarios for your role in three years, including a redesigned AI-native version, and what to do now.
- Plan a career changeTranslates your experience to a new field, closes skill gaps, and manages the financial risk of switching.
- Plan a new portfolio project to fill a skill gapThree realistic self-started project ideas that prove a missing skill, with a 2-4 week plan and the artifact to show.
- Plan a path to a career as a songwriterA realistic plan for building songwriting skills, a catalog, industry connections, and income, including how royalties work.
- Plan a portfolio website that shows off my projectsA page structure, project case-study format, and copy plan for a personal portfolio site that gets you interviews or clients.
- Plan an effective job searchTarget companies, channels, weekly routine, and tracking for a focused job search.
- Plan how to land more sync licensing placements for my musicA weekly production routine, submission system, and opportunity pipeline for composers pitching music to libraries and sync briefs.
- Plan the money and timing of a career switchA financial runway and transition timeline so you can switch careers without unnecessary risk.
- Plan the promotion conversation with my managerTalking points, the exact ask, and responses to likely pushback for raising promotion with your manager.
- Plan work projects that prove my AI skills to my employerPicks real projects that build future-ready skills and turns the results into a visible portfolio of AI work.
- Practice a design whiteboard challenge or app critiqueRuns a realistic design interview exercise with you, then scores how you framed the problem, explored options, and explained decisions.
- Practice a product sense interview question with feedbackA realistic product design or improvement case, run step by step, with scored feedback on your answer.
- Practice with a realistic mock interviewThe AI interviews you one question at a time and gives honest feedback on each answer.
- Prepare a portfolio presentation for a job interviewA timed outline, story for each project, opening script, and likely follow-up questions for a portfolio review interview.
- Prepare for a data analyst or data scientist technical interviewA targeted prep plan and practice set covering SQL, statistics, case questions, and take-home tips for a specific data role.
- Prepare for a job interviewLikely questions, STAR answers from your experience, company research, and questions to ask.
- Prepare for a system design interviewBuilds a practice plan and a worked approach for system design questions, tailored to the level and company type you're targeting.
- Prepare for an internal interview with another teamInterview prep tailored to internal candidates: using insider knowledge, answering "why leave your team?", and avoiding overconfidence.
- Prepare for my first day in a new jobA pre-start checklist, questions to ask before day one, and a plan for your first week.
- Prepare my 90-day check-in with my managerA concise review of your first 90 days, plus feedback questions and goals for the next six months.
- Prepare my faculty merit, tenure, or promotion fileOrganizes your teaching, research, and service into a persuasive, evidence-backed academic file with a strong narrative statement.
- Prepare sharp questions to ask my interviewersTailored questions for each interviewer that show insight and uncover what the job is really like.
- Redesign my role around more strategic, higher-value workShifts your time from operational tasks to strategic work, with what to drop, delegate, or automate and how to agree it with your manager.
- Research a company before my interviewA one-page interview briefing on the company, team, and role so you can answer and ask questions with insight.
- Review my portfolio the way a hiring manager wouldA 30-second first impression, a scorecard against what hiring managers check, and the top fixes ranked.
- Run a listening tour in my first month at a new jobInterview questions, a note-taking template, and a synthesis method to learn the real state of a new team.
- Set expectations with my new manager after a team moveAn agenda and working agreement for your first conversations with a new manager after an internal transfer.
- Tailor my resume to a job descriptionAligns your resume to a specific job, honestly, and shows the gaps.
- Tell my manager I want to move to another teamA respectful script and plan for telling your current manager about an internal move without damaging the relationship.
- Test a new career with informational interviewsOutreach messages, smart questions, and a scorecard to learn what a career is really like before you commit.
- Translate my experience from another field into resume languageRewrites experience from another industry, the military or teaching into terms a new type of employer understands and values.
- Turn a promotion "not yet" into a clear planA specific 3-6 month plan, with agreed milestones, after being passed over or told you're not ready.
- Turn my academic CV into an industry resumeConverts a long academic CV into a two-page industry resume that shows research skills as business results.
- Turn my experience into an AI-era career storyReframes your existing experience into a credible narrative for LinkedIn, reviews, and interviews, showing how you work with AI.
- Turn my job duties into achievement-focused resume bulletsRewrites duty-style resume lines into concise achievement bullets with results, and flags where you need to add a real number.
- Write a cover letter for a career changeWrites a cover letter that explains a career change convincingly by linking your past results to the new role's needs.
- Write a cover letter that doesn't sound genericA specific, persuasive cover letter linking your evidence to what the employer needs.
- Write a follow-up email after applying for a jobWrites a short, polite follow-up after a job application or interview that adds value instead of just asking for an update.
- Write a personal statement for college or scholarshipsA memorable, authentic personal statement built from your real experiences.
- Write a portfolio case study that shows how I thinkA scannable case study for any field that leads with the result and shows your decisions, trade-offs, and impact.
- Write a research statement for an academic job applicationA compelling research statement showing my agenda, past contributions, future plans, and fit with the hiring department.
- Write a resume skills section that matches the jobBuilds a focused, honest skills section grouped by category and ordered by what the job description asks for.
- Write a resume summary for my target roleWrites three short, specific resume summaries for a target role from your experience, without buzzwords or invented claims.
- Write a short cover email to send with my job applicationWrites a brief, professional email to send your resume to a recruiter or hiring manager, with a subject line that gets opened.
- Write a teaching statement with real classroom evidenceTurns my teaching experience into a specific, evidence-backed teaching philosophy statement for academic applications.
- Write a UX case study for my design portfolioTurns a past project into a scannable portfolio case study that shows your process, decisions, and impact, not just final screens.
- Write an executive or C-suite resumeA senior-level resume that leads with scale, strategy, and results, tailored to board and executive search expectations in your target market.
- Write my career-change story for resumes and interviewsA confident narrative explaining why you're switching, plus a summary, LinkedIn headline, and interview answer.
- Write my first resume with little work experienceBuilds a one-page first resume for a student or graduate from education, projects, volunteering and part-time work.
- Write my self-assessment for a performance reviewAn evidence-based self-review that shows your impact without overselling.
- Write my self-assessment for a promotion packetA concise, evidence-led promotion case written in the format reviewers and calibration committees expect.
- Write my teaching philosophy statementA concrete, evidence-backed teaching statement for academic job applications, promotion, or awards, in your own voice.
- Write or overhaul my resumeTurns your experience into an achievement-focused, ATS-friendly resume.
- Write thank-you notes after each interview roundShort, specific follow-up notes for each interviewer that reinforce your fit and address any weak moment.
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