Turn Screen Notes Into a Candidate Submittal
When to use it
Convert messy call notes into a write-up a hiring manager will actually read and act on.
The prompt
Turn my rough screening notes into a candidate submittal for a hiring manager. ROLE: {{Job Title}} MY RAW NOTES: {{paste them exactly as you took them — messy is fine and actually better}} WHAT THE HIRING MANAGER CARES ABOUT MOST: {{the two or three things that will decide this}} Write: - A two-sentence summary that leads with why this person is worth their time. - Evidence against each of the hiring manager's priorities, quoting or paraphrasing what the candidate actually said rather than my impression of it. - What I could not establish on a screen, stated plainly as an open question rather than glossed over. - Logistics: comp expectations, notice period, location, and any other process in play. - One suggested question for their interview, based on the gap most worth probing. Keep it under 250 words. Do not oversell — flag anything I've written that reads like advocacy rather than evidence.
Tip
The 'what I could not establish' section is what earns you a hiring manager's trust. Recruiters who only submit positives get their judgement discounted within about three candidates.
How to use it
Paste the prompt into ChatGPT, Claude or whichever assistant you use, then replace every {{bracketed}} part with your own detail. The more specific and messier your input, the better the output — a model given raw notes has more to work with than one given a tidy summary you wrote first.
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Open the full tool for all 87 prompts, the glossary, and the JD decoder.