Run a Resume Calibration Session
When to use it
Agree on what a yes looks like with the hiring manager in week one, instead of discovering it after they reject your first eight submittals.
The prompt
Help me run a resume calibration session with a hiring manager for a {{Job Title}} role. THE BRIEF AS I UNDERSTAND IT: {{must-haves, level, background}} WHAT I'M SEEING IN THE MARKET: {{the profiles actually available at this comp and location}} ANY DISAGREEMENT SO FAR: {{profiles they've rejected and the reason given}} Give me: 1. How to structure a 30-minute session: how many resumes to bring, what mix, and what to ask for on each. 2. What to bring deliberately — the obvious yes, the obvious no, and three genuinely borderline profiles that will surface where our bars differ. 3. The questions that turn a vague rejection into a usable rule. When they say "not quite senior enough", what do I ask to find out what they actually mean? 4. How to surface an unstated must-have, which is usually what's really driving the rejections. 5. How to raise a market-reality problem — when the profile they want doesn't exist at this comp — without it sounding like an excuse for a thin pipeline. 6. What to write down and send afterwards, so the agreed bar is on record. End with the two or three questions most likely to produce a rule I can actually screen against.
Tip
Bring rejects on purpose. The profiles a hiring manager says no to teach you far more about their real bar than the ones they approve, and the reasons only surface when there's a specific resume in front of them.
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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