Apply, Skip or Ask First: A Job Post Decision Sheet With a Time Budget
Paste a job post and your honest facts. Get a requirement-by-requirement match table, deal-breakers, warning signs, an apply, skip or ask-first decision and a time budget that fits the hours you really have.
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Your prompt
Act as a practical job-search adviser. Help me decide if this job is worth my time. Use only the job post and my facts.
Job post: {{job_post}}
My honest facts (experience, skills, qualifications, location, right to work): {{my_facts}}
What I need (pay floor, hours, travel, remote or on-site): {{my_needs}}
Hours I have for applications this week: {{weekly_hours}}
Rules:
- Do not invent or assume any skill, qualification, employer or number I did not give. If a fact is missing, write [?] and ask me.
- Quote the post's own words for each requirement. Mark it "must", "nice to have" or "unclear". Use "unclear" when the post does not say.
- Do not add salary, company details or benefits that are not in the post.
- Do not give my chances as a percentage.
- If key facts are missing, ask me up to 3 questions before deciding.
Answer in this format:
1. Table: Requirement (quoted) | Must / nice / unclear | My matching fact (quoted from my facts) or [?] | Match: yes / partly / no.
2. Deal-breakers: anything that clashes with my needs, quoted from the post. Say "none found" if none.
3. Warning signs in the post, such as a fee to apply, very high pay for vague duties, or no company name.
4. Questions to ask first, and who to ask.
5. Decision: APPLY, SKIP or ASK FIRST, with three reasons that point to rows in the table.
6. Time budget: if APPLY, a short plan that fits my weekly hours (tailor resume, short note, fact check, send), with a time cap for this one post. If SKIP, one line on what kind of post to look for instead.4 inputs still blank. Empty inputs stay as placeholders when copied.
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Example result
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How to use this prompt
- 1Paste the full job post, not just the title.
- 2Write your facts plainly and truthfully, including what you do not have.
- 3Copy the complete prompt, answer any questions, then read the table before the decision.
- 4Treat the decision as advice; you know your situation best.
Tips & limitations
Check the result: 1. Every requirement in the table is quoted word for word from the post. 2. Your matching facts are things you actually wrote, with [?] where something is missing. 3. The decision points to specific table rows, and no percentage chance is given. 4. Pay, hours and location in the answer match the post exactly. Example output is illustrative; independently verify calculations, dates, quotations and actions relevant to your task.
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Illustrative example · 2026-10-28
Built on hiring data checked on 28 October 2026: LinkedIn/Censuswide (Jan 2025) on HR teams seeing many applications that miss basic criteria, and Huntr (Q2 2026, self-selected users, correlational) on focused applications. Example output is illustrative; no outcome is claimed.