{"id":"career-fair-pitch-three-lines","audience":"college","category":"career","technique":"format","track":"writing","title":"Build a 30-second career fair pitch in three lines","free":false,"task":"You'll stop at the Bluewater Civil booth at tomorrow's career fair. Get a 30-second pitch as exactly 3 numbered lines, under 90 words, plain text: line 1 says your name, year and major; line 2 gives your strongest project with its corrected number; line 3 asks one specific question about their stormwater internship. Don't ask \"are you hiring?\".","materialLabel":"Your notes and the company flyer (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"MY NOTES (Nadia Osei, junior, environmental science, Lewis State)\n- GIS class project: mapped storm drains around campus with the city's open data, found 80 drains?? -> recounted with Prof. Hale, it's 48 drains, I double-counted the north lot\n- flagged 6 drains that flood every big rain, sent the map to Facilities\n- summer job: park maintenance crew for the town of Elkford, 2 summers\n- Environmental Club treasurer\n- taking Hydrology next semester\n- nervous about talking to recruiters, I ramble\n\nBLUEWATER CIVIL (booth flyer)\nCivil engineering firm, 140 staff, offices in Elkford and Pine Bluff.\nSummer 2027 internships: Stormwater Design Intern (GIS mapping, field inspections of drains and culverts), Transportation Intern.\n\"Ask us about our green infrastructure work, like the Elkford rain garden project.\"","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":3},{"type":"maxWords","max":90},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Getting a speech","why":"The AI writes a long paragraph that takes a minute or more to say, which is how you'd ramble.","fix":"Be exact: \"Exactly 3 numbered lines, each under 22 words.\"","checks":["numberedItems","maxWords"]},{"title":"Missing the corrected number","why":"The AI may use 80 drains, the first figure in your notes.","fix":"Add: \"Use 48 drains, the recounted number.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Ending with a weak ask","why":"AI pitches end with 'Are you hiring?' or 'I'd love to learn more', which gives the recruiter nothing to answer.","fix":"Add: \"Line 3: one specific question about the Stormwater Design internship. Don't ask if they're hiring.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Not saying what goes first","why":"The AI may open with a hook instead of who you are, and recruiters need your year and major fast.","fix":"Add: \"Line 1: name, year, major.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it's going","why":"AI adds bold and headings that show up as stray symbols in a note card.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says how many lines","patterns":["\\b(3|three)\\b.{0,25}(line|sentence|part)","exactly \\d+","numbered"]},{"label":"Uses the corrected number","patterns":["48","correct","recount"]},{"label":"Asks a specific question","patterns":["stormwater","specific question","rain garden","hiring"]},{"label":"Says what each line does","patterns":["line 1","name.{0,20}(year|major)"]},{"label":"Sets a length limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)","under \\d+"]}],"hint":"Thirty seconds is about 70 words. Tell the AI the three lines, what goes in each, which number is right and what kind of question to end on.","rubricLabels":["Line 1 gives Nadia's name, that she's a junior, and her environmental science major","Line 2 is about the storm drain mapping project and, if it gives a count, says 48 drains (not 80)","Line 3 asks one specific question about the Stormwater Design internship or its work, and nothing in the pitch asks whether they are hiring"]}