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Quick Start
I suggest you do not read this book cover to cover before you start. Instead, start this week. Little by little, you will build your nest. So here is a seven-day plan. One thing a day, each of them small enough to finish in an evening.
That is the foundation. Everything after it is the same seven habits, run for ninety days.
Chapter Sixteen
Ten prompts, in the order a search uses them, and they are the ten that ran my own search. Save them into your prompts folder and adapt them freely. Swap in your role, your field, your voice.
A prompt is a starting point, not a vending machine. The value shows up in the second and third exchange. Push back, tighten, correct. And everything that ships still passes your honesty check and your out-loud test.
Interview me to build a complete Master CV. Ask about one era of my career at a time. Roles, projects, tools, team sizes, budgets, outcomes, and push for numbers I have forgotten. Do not write anything I did not say. When we are done, organize it all into a clean master document by role, with accomplishments as evidence-first bullets.
Here are ten postings for [role]. List every requirement appearing in three or more, ranked by frequency, in four groups. Tasks and deliverables. Tools and technology. Industry terminology. Certifications. Exclude generic soft skills. Mark which group each term belongs to. This becomes my keyword source for résumé, LinkedIn, and gap analysis.
Step 1. From the attached posting, extract the top twenty to thirty keywords, one to three words each, prioritized. Tasks and deliverables. Then tools. Then industry terms. Then certifications. No generic soft skills. Step 2. Tailor my attached Master CV. Summary leads with what this employer targets. Keywords before deliverables in each bullet. Employer language wherever it honestly matches my experience. Strong verbs. ATS-clean format. Step 3. Flag every change, and separately list any keyword my CV cannot honestly support.
Using the posting and my tailored résumé, draft a cover letter under 250 words. Open with the employer’s core problem. Connect two of my results to it with numbers. Close with plain-spoken interest. No “esteemed organization.†No “passionate.†Nothing you have written a thousand times before. Then give me one sentence in it you would cut, and why.
Compare the attached spec sheet against my Master CV. For each requirement, rate my evidence Strong, Partial, or Missing, and quote the exact CV line that justifies the rating. For each Partial, say what evidence would upgrade it. For each Partial or Missing, classify it. Evidence gap, experience gap, or hard gap.
Draft a [situation] message to [name] using my template in prompts/messages.md and this context. Shared history, their recent post, or the role. Under 80 words, my voice, one small ask, and vary the structure so it does not read like a template. Give me two versions with different rhythms.
Act as the hiring manager for the attached posting. Warm but skeptical, thirty years of interviews behind you. One question at a time. Behavioral questions drawn from the posting’s competencies. One aimed at my résumé’s weakest point. One curveball. Score each answer one to five on structure, evidence, and length. Tell me what a great answer would add, then continue. Do not go easy.
Here is every question I remember from the interview and how I answered. Log the questions to my story bank file, grouped by competency. Tell me which answers were strong, which stumbled and why, which story I am missing entirely, and what tomorrow’s twenty-minute practice should target.
Run my five-station audit. Station 1. Alignment-check my current résumé against these three postings I wanted. Station 2. Read tracker.csv. Funnel rates, trends, best sources. Station 3. Read ledger.md. Ties added per week, give versus ask, dropped threads. Station 4. Here are my LinkedIn headline and About section. Check them against my spec sheet, and whether the content calendar ran. Station 5. Read my debriefs for repeated stumbles. Output findings per station, then the top three fixes ranked by expected effect on interviews, each as a concrete scheduled task.
I have an offer. [Role, figure, package.] Market range from my research. [Range.] Act as the hiring manager. Friendly, budget-conscious, and let me practice. My anchor on value, your pushback, the package levers if base is capped. After each exchange, coach me on tone, phrasing, and what I conceded too quickly. Two rounds, then a summary of my strongest lines.
Chapter Four
The AI prompt I use for every application. Save it. Reuse it. Adapt it.
Step 1. Keyword extraction. From the attached posting, extract the top twenty to thirty keywords, one to three words each, prioritized in this order. First, job tasks and deliverables. Second, tools, software, and technology. Third, industry-specific terminology. Fourth, certifications and credentials. Exclude generic soft skills such as organization, problem-solving, and attention to detail. The list must be specific to this role. Step 2. Coverage check. Compare that keyword list against my attached Master CV. For each keyword, tell me whether it is present and prominent, present but buried, or absent. For every buried or absent keyword that my experience honestly supports, propose the edit. Lead the summary with the skills the employer targets. Mirror the posting’s language. Place keywords before deliverables in each bullet. Use strong action verbs. Keep the format ATS-clean. No tables, no text boxes, no graphics. Step 3. Flag every change. Tell me what you changed, and anything you were tempted to add but could not support.
That third step is not optional. You should read what AI produces every single time. The moment you stop reading it is the moment something enters your résumé that you cannot defend in a room.
Chapter Twenty-Three
Three rules make every prompt work better, and they are worth committing to memory because they generalize far beyond job searching.
Every prompt in this book assumes the assistant can see your Master CV, your target file, and your tracker. In a chat assistant, attach those at the top of the conversation.
The best prompts tell the assistant who it is pretending to be. A skeptical recruiter. A hiring manager with thirty years behind them. A budget-conscious negotiator.
Tell it exactly what you want back. A table. A list. A redline. A draft under a word count. Vague requests produce vague answers. Specific requests produce tools.
Chapters Fourteen and Fifteen
Ten columns. Thirty seconds a row. That is the entire price of knowing where your search stands.
The template also has the three columns from Chapter Fifteen and Appendix B: the date the employer posted the job, a match percentage for the machine, and a fit rating out of five for you.
Download the tracker templateChapter Twenty
Ninety days is the honest horizon. Long enough for the funnel arithmetic to work, for applications to become interviews and interviews to become offers. Short enough to hold in view without despair.
Build the Master CV. Create the tracker. Apply early and consistently to genuinely matching roles, AI-tailored and personally reviewed. Ten applications a week if you are searching full time. Five if you are employed.
Systematize what you have been doing by hand. Convert to batching. Run your first gap analysis and close every evidence gap it reveals. Give your LinkedIn profile its full optimization pass, and start the networking habit: fifteen minutes daily, three touches.
Every serious application gets the warm treatment where possible. Hold one informational interview a week. Keep adding three new weak ties a week. At day forty-five, run the full audit, all five stations, and fix the top three findings.
Shift your training time toward conversion. Story bank built. Mock interviews weekly. Debriefs after every real one. And keep applying. The pipeline has to stay full, because offers negotiate best against other offers.
Appendix B
Six steps, each with the symptom that earns it. Read the symptom first. If you do not have it, you do not need the step. Most readers need steps one and two and nothing else.
| Step | What changes | The symptom that earns it |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Six plain files in one folder | You are starting |
| 1 | One folder per application | You sent the wrong résumé version |
| 2 | The tracker is rebuilt, not updated | Tracker and folders disagree |
| 3 | Two scores on every job | You are tailoring for jobs you do not want |
| 4 | Prompts become written procedures | You are pasting the same prompt again |
| 5 | A search runs on a schedule | You repeat the same search daily |
| 6 | A generated view of the pipeline | You cannot see it all at once |
Read every folder in applications. From the facts file in each one, build tracker.csv with my ten columns, one row per folder, newest first. Do not invent a value. Where a folder is missing something, leave the cell empty, and list those folders at the end so I can fix them. Tell me if two folders look like the same job.
An Invitation
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