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Write a recommendation

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.

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The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AExecute — do the immediate taskI need to write a professional recommendation for Alex, the sales lead who closed our first…+
I need to write a professional recommendation for Alex, the sales lead who closed our first enterprise customer. Draft a message that opens with who Alex is to me and the company, names the deal (Monarch Telecom, $420k ARR), cites three concrete strengths (negotiation, stakeholder mapping, persistence), and ends with one line recommending him for senior enterprise sales roles.
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 post this recommendation for Alex, make it easy for recruiters to scan: lead with the…+
Before I post this recommendation for Alex, make it easy for recruiters to scan: lead with the dollar figure and timeline — ‘closed Monarch Telecom, $420k ARR in nine months’ — then list three short examples that prove each strength, and finish with a clear recommendation line aimed at enterprise sales hiring managers.
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’m drafting a professional recommendation for Alex, who led the Monarch Telecom deal for us.…+
I drafted a recommendation for Alex but I’m unsure whether to mention the client name.
I’m drafting a professional recommendation for Alex, who led the Monarch Telecom deal for us. I’m torn whether to name the client and the $420k ARR: it strengthens credibility but I worry about our legal or privacy rules. I don’t know if mentioning Monarch breaches any client confidentiality. Should I name the client and revenue, and if so, what wording keeps it professional and low-risk?
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’ve written many professional recommendations meant to help colleagues, but…+
My recommendations read generic and don’t help hires get interviews.
Over the last year I’ve written many professional recommendations meant to help colleagues, but hiring managers say they’re too vague and don’t lead to conversations. I tend to use flattering adjectives instead of measurable impact. What specific habit should I change so my recommendations consistently help people get interviews?
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.