AI Prompts for Job Search and Work Tasks

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We’ve prepared twelve prompts for job searching and everyday work tasks. You can paste each one without changing the text. Where your materials are needed, the prompt asks for them first. You only share data that you can use in the chosen tool. For your first attempt, choose material without client data or information about other people.

Resume Based on Facts

Use this to organize your experience, but don’t expect it to add achievements or guarantee an interview invitation.

Help me prepare a resume. First, ask for my actual experience, responsibilities, skills, and the job posting if I have one. Don't ask for my home address, document numbers, or other people's data. After my response, organize the material. Don't add employers, dates, certifications, numbers, or results. When information is missing, ask a question. Separate facts I've provided from suggestions on how to describe them.

Compare Experience with Job Posting

Use this to find missing evidence of competencies, but don’t expect a percentage assessment of your hiring chances.

Ask me for the job posting content and a description of my experience. Then prepare a table: requirement from posting, evidence in my description, missing information. Don't evaluate my age, gender, or personal traits. Don't invent employer requirements. Don't calculate hiring chances. If something isn't in the materials, write "no confirmation." At the end, suggest questions I can ask the recruiter.

Short Message to Recruiter

Use this to prepare an application message, but don’t expect the recruiter’s response or automatic sending.

Help me write a short message to a recruiter. First, ask about the position, reason for interest, and real experience matching the offer. Don't invent the recipient's name. After receiving the data, prepare a factual subject line and content. Avoid superlatives and competency claims without confirmation. Don't state salary expectations if I haven't provided them. Don't send the message.

Job Interview Practice

Use this to practice answers, but don’t expect it to recreate a specific employer’s questions.

Conduct a practice job interview with me. First, ask about the position and my experience. Then ask questions one at a time and wait for an answer. Evaluate its clarity, relevance to the question, and specificity of examples. Don't claim you know a given employer's procedure. Don't suggest invented achievements. When an answer is general, ask for a real example from my work.

Check Your Own Skill

Use this to select an exercise, but don’t expect skill certification or a diagnosis of suitability for a profession.

Help me check a skill needed for work. First, ask what I want to learn and what I already know. Suggest a short exercise using clear, fictional data. Clearly mark this data as practice material. Don't solve the task before my attempt. After my response, point out a specific error or gap and explain how to improve. Don't declare that I'm ready to work in a given position.

Email Without Unauthorized Promises

Use this to draft a client response, but don’t expect it to establish terms that no one has approved.

Ask for the client's message content after removing personal data, and for facts I can share with them. Prepare a response. Don't promise a deadline, discount, refund, or exception if they're not in the confirmed information. When the response requires a decision, indicate it separately before the email draft. Maintain a factual, polite tone. Don't send the message or change data in any system.

Report Without Invented Results

Use this to describe completed work, but don’t expect it to add metrics to improve the impression.

Help me prepare a report on completed work. First, ask for a list of activities, confirmed results, and open matters. Separate actions from outcomes. Don't change "I prepared" to "I implemented" if I haven't confirmed that. Don't add percentages, time savings, or client data. If I don't have a measurement, describe the result without a number. End with a list of information requiring my completion.

Data from Document with Gaps Indicated

Use this to prepare a working summary, but don’t expect it to recreate illegible or unavailable information.

First, ask for a document I can share and a list of fields to extract. If you can't read the file, say so directly. After receiving the material, prepare a table with the value and its location in the source. Don't guess illegible characters. Don't fill gaps with general knowledge. For an ambiguous field, write "needs verification" and explain why. Stop before approving the document.

Formula with Verification Conditions

Use this to prepare a spreadsheet calculation, but don’t expect a correct result without establishing what the data means.

Help me prepare a spreadsheet formula. First, ask about the program, the language of its functions, column names, expected result, and how to treat empty cells. Don't ask for the entire confidential spreadsheet. A description and anonymized example are enough. Explain the formula's logic and provide cases for manual verification. Don't claim you ran the calculation if you didn't. Don't guess the argument separator.

Code Change Review

Use this to identify places requiring inspection, but don’t expect a guarantee of program security.

Ask me for the code difference or files related to a specific change, and a description of expected behavior. Check whether the change might break existing functionality, error handling, or data integrity. Don't add found problems without indicating the code fragment. Separate a confirmed bug from a hypothesis. Suggest a way to verify. Don't claim tests passed if you didn't run them.

Meeting Decisions

Use this to organize a conversation record, but don’t expect it to turn proposals into decisions.

Ask for a note or meeting transcript that I can share. Prepare separate lists of decisions, proposals, tasks, and open questions. Assign a person and deadline to each task only when they follow directly from the material. Otherwise, write "not established." Don't resolve conflicting statements. Point them out for clarification. Don't send the summary to participants without my separate instruction.

Choose a Task to Try with AI

Use this to plan a small test, but don’t expect employment forecasts or savings promises.

Help me choose an activity to test with AI. First, ask for my actual tasks, available tools, and rules for using data. Suggest a task with a clear result that I can verify. Separate material preparation, execution, review, and corrections. Don't calculate risk of job loss. Don't promise time savings. Suggest a way to record the actual result of the trial, even when AI doesn't help.

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Why These Prompts Leave Control of the Result

Microsoft recommends verifying Copilot results in Excel, and GitHub describes limitations of code suggestions. We checked the documentation on September 10, 2026. These prompts organize work, but they’re not a guarantee that the model will always apply all conditions.

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