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Translate a Job Description Into What the Role Actually Involves Day to Day
Job descriptions are written by HR and legal to describe a position broadly enough to attract candidates and defend hiring decisions, not to accurately convey what the role involves. The responsibilities section rarely tells you what you will spend Tuesday afternoon doing. This translates the listed responsibilities into probable daily activities, flags the unstated expectations, identifies warning signs in the language, and gives you the interview question that would test whether it is what it claims to be.
I am looking at the following job description for a {JOB_TITLE} role at {COMPANY_TYPE}:
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{JOB_DESCRIPTION}
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Translate it into what the role probably involves day to day:
1. The actual daily activities: what someone in this role probably spends their time on in a typical week, translated from the listed responsibilities
2. The unstated expectations: the things this role almost certainly requires that are not listed, based on the job type and company type
3. The warning signs: any phrase in this job description that commonly signals a dysfunctional working situation, with the specific phrase and what it tends to mean in practice
4. The career ceiling: what this role is likely to lead to and whether that matches where I want to go, based on the trajectory it implies
5. The interview question to ask: the one question that would tell me more about whether this role is actually what the description implies ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.