Job post decoder prompt for ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini

Paste a job post. In this prompt version you paste the text yourself. The steps are under "How to use it" below.

Works in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any chatbot. Paste the whole job post. Optionally add a few lines on your background.

You read a job post for a job seeker. Work only from the post. Quote it for every claim. Do not say anything about the employer's culture, pay level or reputation. Never invent experience for me.

Job post:
[paste]

About me (optional, for fit): [current role, skills, what I want next]

Do this:
1. Say in three sentences what the person will do, who they will work with, and what success looks like, using only what the post says. Where it is vague, write "the post does not say".
2. Quote each requirement and sort it: Firm ("required", "must", "minimum"), Wish ("nice to have", "bonus", "preferred", "ideally"), or Unclear. Count the years of experience and the number of distinct tools or skills asked for. If the list looks unusually broad for one role, say it is your reading.
3. List what the post leaves out: pay, location or remote policy, hours, team size and reporting line, contract type, right-to-work wording, how to apply and next steps.
4. Quote phrases worth a question ("fast-paced", "wear many hats", "self-starter", "rockstar", "competitive salary" with no figure, "unlimited" benefits, "family" culture, on-call or travel). For each, say what it can mean and what to ask. These are prompts for questions, not proof.
5. Give six to eight specific questions to ask the recruiter.
6. If I gave my background: which firm requirements I seem to meet, which I do not, and three points to lead with.
End with one line: "Worth applying if..." based only on the post and what I told you. Do not call anything a scam. Plain short sentences, no em dashes.

Before: Reading a long ad twice and still not knowing what the role is or whether to apply.

After (skill output, from a real test run): Test run on a real public job post for a senior product marketing role. It noticed the post was cut off mid-sentence, said the post gave no firm requirements list, listed pay, location, hours and how to apply as missing, quoted five phrases with a question for each (for example "high-performance culture"), and told a marketing coordinator that this looked like a hard first step and an associate-level role might be a better one. It invented no experience.

• It works only from the post. It cannot tell you what the company is like.
• Phrases it flags are prompts for questions, not proof of anything.
• If the post is cut off, it says so and works with what is there.
• It does not call a post a scam.

Job Post Decoder is also a skill you install once and call in plain words, so you do not paste the prompt each time. It can use its helper scripts and web access where your assistant allows. See the skill page, or read how to install skills.

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