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This is real work, not a feature someone invented — it comes from real job ads and real questions people asked. Below are four ready AI prompts: get it done, make it easy for the next person to say yes to, work out the right move when you are stuck, and stop it coming back.

4prompts

The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AExecute — do the immediate taskI need to tighten my profile privacy before I apply to several confidential roles this week.…+
I need to tighten my profile privacy before I apply to several confidential roles this week. Turn off profile viewing history, set who can see my connections to only me, prevent others from seeing when I’m active, and make sure recruiters can still message me. Confirm the changes are saved.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
BImprove — make it easier to acceptBefore I change privacy settings for these confidential applications, make the impact clear —…+
Before I change privacy settings for these confidential applications, make the impact clear — list which recruiters or hiring contacts will lose visibility into my activity, warn if turning off profile history hides me from some recruiter searches, and suggest the minimal settings that keep me discreet while allowing headhunters to message.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CDecide — diagnose the stuck momentI switched off profile viewing history and set connections to only me, but I need recruiters to…+
I toggled privacy but I’m not sure if recruiters can still message me.
I switched off profile viewing history and set connections to only me, but I need recruiters to still find and message me for roles this week. I’m worried I might have made myself invisible to recruiter searches or InMail. What likely happened, how can I verify recruiters can still contact me, and what’s the immediate safest configuration if I need discretion but maintain outreach?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
DBecome — change the patternEach time I run a confidential job search I turn off visibility and restrict connections;…+
I flip privacy on for confidential searches, then forget to revert it and miss inbound leads.
Each time I run a confidential job search I turn off visibility and restrict connections; afterward I often forget to revert settings and miss inbound recruiter messages for weeks. Where am I losing opportunities — no post-search checklist, poor memory of what changed, or lack of a standard setting — and what one habit or simple checklist item will stop me from staying hidden after the search ends?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from LinkedIn's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.