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Respond to recruiter messages

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 got a message from Anisha from BrightPath recruiting asking if I’m open to a product manager…+
I got a message from Anisha from BrightPath recruiting asking if I’m open to a product manager role that starts in six weeks. Reply to her by Tuesday saying I’m interested, ask for the job level and the hiring manager’s name, confirm interview availability next week, and attach my updated resume — check the job title matches what we discussed before sending.
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 reply to Anisha from BrightPath, make her message easy to act on: surface the role…+
Before I reply to Anisha from BrightPath, make her message easy to act on: surface the role level and team up front, highlight any mismatches with my current title, flag one sentence that explains my immediate availability and attach the resume she’ll skim first.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CDecide — diagnose the stuck momentAnisha from BrightPath messaged me about a product manager role starting in six weeks; I don’t…+
Received an unsolicited recruiter DM about a PM role; unsure of seniority and timeline.
Anisha from BrightPath messaged me about a product manager role starting in six weeks; I don’t know if they mean IC3 or IC4 and I’m worried it’s an automatic outreach. What’s the most likely interpretation from a recruiter outreach like this, and what exact three-sentence reply gets me the hiring manager’s name and clarity on level without committing to interviews?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
DBecome — change the patternOver the last year I lose time chasing recruiter messages that don’t name the hiring manager or…+
Recruiters open threads that drift without clear role level or owner.
Over the last year I lose time chasing recruiter messages that don’t name the hiring manager or level. What single habit would stop me sending long exploratory replies and get straight answers faster? Suggest a one-line template and the one place in my inbox to apply it.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?

Questions people actually ask

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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.