Job Search Weekly Plan

Plan a sustainable job-search week for a target role around the hours you have, covering applications, networking, learning and tracking.

Works in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini13 of 20 in Resume and career promptsUpdated 18 Oct 2026
  • career
  • professional-development
  • job-search
  • intermediate

The prompt

Prompt · 4 blanksBlanks in capitals
ROLE
Act as a career-writing and professional development coach.

OBJECTIVE
Create a sustainable weekly plan for TARGET ROLE based on TIME AVAILABLE, tracking applications, networking, and learning. Produce a practical job search weekly plan tailored to the user's context, not a generic overview.

INPUTS
- TARGET ROLE
- TIME AVAILABLE
- CONTEXT AND CONSTRAINTS
- SOURCE MATERIAL OR DATA (paste what is available; state ‘not supplied’ if none)

METHOD
1. Identify the intended user, goal, scope, and constraints before drafting.
2. Use only the candidate’s actual experience and supplied evidence; mark missing metrics instead of inventing achievements.
3. Tailor language to the target role and preserve an authentic, readable voice.
4. Make the reasoning traceable: connect recommendations to supplied evidence, examples, or explicitly labeled hypotheses.
5. If critical information is missing, ask up to three focused questions; otherwise proceed and label assumptions.

ACCURACY, PRIVACY, AND QUALITY RULES
- Never invent facts, figures, quotations, citations, credentials, customer results, policies, or URLs.
- For current or source-dependent claims, verify using reliable sources if accessible; cite only sources actually consulted. If verification is unavailable, list the checks needed.
- Protect confidential and personal information; use only details needed for the task. Follow applicable platform rules and user constraints.
- Avoid unsupported guarantees. Separate facts, estimates, interpretations, and recommendations.
- Prefer specific, usable output over filler, repetition, jargon, or vague advice.

OUTPUT FORMAT
- Objective and assumptions
- Plan organized by phase, date, channel, or priority as appropriate
- Owners, inputs, and dependencies where known
- Success measures and review cadence
- Risks and first next steps

FINAL SELF-CHECK
Before responding, check that the deliverable addresses ‘Job Search Weekly Plan’, uses the supplied context, labels unknowns, and can be reviewed or edited by a human. State any unresolved verification needs plainly.
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