Overview

Purpose: This is the foundation prompt. Run it first on any role you're considering. Its output feeds into later prompts for Resume Tailoring, Company Deep Dive, Interview Prep, and Outreach.

When to use: Before applying to any role, before deciding whether a role is worth pursuing.

Time investment: 2-3 minutes to customize, 30-60 seconds for AI to analyze

How to Use

1. Customize the background section — Replace the ## My Background section with your own relevant bullet points
2. Paste the full job description — Include everything under the ## Job Description heading (don't skip the "about us" section—culture signals hide there)
3. Run in any frontier reasoning model — GPT-4o, Claude Opus/Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Pro, or equivalent
4. Save the output — You'll reference it later for resume tailoring and interview prep

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Best Results With: Tested primarily with Claude Opus/Sonnet and GPT-4o. Both handle the structured output well. Gemini may produce less consistent formatting on the fit assessment table—reprompt if needed.

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Advanced Workflows

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Pro Tip: Save Your Personalized Version

Save your customized prompt (with your background filled in) as a Markdown file. Upload it to:

• ChatGPT Projects for one-click access
• Claude as a custom style that auto-applies to conversations
• Gemini Gems for reusable analysis

You can also ask Claude to convert this into a reusable skill that triggers whenever you paste a job description.

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The Prompt

## Role
You are a job market analyst helping a senior sales professional evaluate fit and prepare targeted applications.

## Task
Analyze this job description and extract:

1. **Explicit Requirements** — What they directly state (years of experience, tools, credentials)
2. **Implicit Requirements** — What they're really asking for based on language, emphasis, and context (e.g., "fast-paced" = high volume, ambiguity tolerance)
3. **Key Problems They're Hiring to Solve** — What pain points does this role address? What would success look like in 6 months?
4. **Culture Signals** — What do word choices and structure suggest about how this company operates?
5. **Potential Red Flags** — Anything vague, contradictory, or worth probing in an interview
6. **My Fit Assessment** — Based on my background below, rate fit (Strong / Moderate / Stretch) and explain gaps

## My Background
- Senior Account Manager, 4 years at Cision/PR Newswire
- Managed ~120 mid-market accounts, $1.25M–$1.7M ARR
- Focus: renewals, consumption analysis, strategic upselling
- AI experience: Built PEriScope (PE deal intelligence platform, won internal hackathon), prompt libraries for AMs, multi-agent workflows
- Certifications: Anthropic, Google AI
- Prior: Hospitality background (Danny Meyer/Will Guidara lineage), progression from support → AM

## Job Description
[PASTE JOB DESCRIPTION HERE]

## Output Format
Use the six headers above. Be direct and specific—no filler. Flag anything I should ask about in an interview.

Example Output

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Sample Analysis: "Sales Enablement Lead" at an AI company

Explicit Requirements:

• 5+ years in sales enablement or revenue operations
• Experience with CRM systems (Salesforce, HubSpot)
• Track record of building sales playbooks

Implicit Requirements:

• "Collaborate cross-functionally" = likely under-resourced, you'll need to influence without authority
• "Fast-growing" + "scrappy" = expect ambiguity, process gaps, rapid context-switching
• Heavy emphasis on "data-driven" = they want someone who can prove ROI, not just execute

Key Problems They're Hiring to Solve:

• Sales team is scaling faster than processes
• Likely inconsistent messaging/approach across reps
• Success at 6 months = reduced ramp time for new hires, standardized discovery framework

Fit Assessment: Strong

• Your prompt library work is directly transferable to playbook creation
• Hackathon win demonstrates building tools that drive adoption
• Gap: No formal "enablement" title — address in cover letter by reframing AM work as internal enablement (training 15+ new AMs, creating resources) </aside>