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Job search prompts

CVs, cover letters, interviews, salary talk. The whole gauntlet, prompt by prompt.

• work How to quantify achievements when you genuinely can't remember the numbers

  Asks the questions that recover lost numbers for your CV.

• work Your bullets describe duties. Recruiters want results.

  Rewrites CV bullets from listed duties into quantified results.

• work Career pivot cover letter for the field you're new to

  Rewrites your wins in the language of a field you're moving into.

• work Careers you'd be good at but never considered

  Gives a sober read on three realistic career pivots and first moves

• work Your cover letter's been sitting in drafts for three weeks

  Writes a one-page cover letter that handles your weak spot head-on

• work You freelanced for three years. Recruiters see a gap.

  Diagnoses whether your freelance years read as a career chapter or a gap, and fixes it.

• work For when you're changing careers and everything on your CV is wrong

  Diagnoses your CV's gaps for a new field, then surfaces transferable strengths.

• work ATS is binning you before a human ever sees your name

  Compares your CV to a job ad and flags the keywords and formatting ATS filters out.

• work Cover letter that doesn't open with 'I am writing to apply'

  Writes a one-page cover letter with a real hook and your own anecdotes.

• work You're overqualified and you know it, but you still want the job

  Writes a cover letter that heads off the overqualified worry head-on.

• work You're applying internally and your manager doesn't know yet

  Writes a cover letter for an internal move that reads as additive, not escape.

• work Your CV is two pages. It should be one. Cut it.

  Cuts a two-page CV to one using a recruiter's 30-second scan

• work First Offer Ever Script

  Writes a polite counter-offer email for your first ever negotiation.

• work Signing Bonus Instead of Salary

  Scripts a signing-bonus ask when base salary is locked by banding.

• work The application closes tonight and you've written nothing

  A sharp one-page cover letter from three facts about you

• work You're a PhD applying for a normal job. Your CV is terrifying them.

  Rewrites an academic CV so a recruiter reads past line one

• work Competing Offer Leverage Script

  Word-for-word scripts to negotiate pay using a competing offer

• work Flex and Remote as Package Items

  Negotiate flex and remote days when the salary won't move.

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