{"id":"career-informational-interview-thank-you","audience":"college","category":"career","technique":"context","track":"writing","title":"Thank someone for an informational interview and report back","free":false,"task":"You had a 20-minute informational call with a product designer. Get a thank-you email under 90 words, plain text, that names two pieces of her advice and says what you've already done about one of them: you signed up for the campus UX club yesterday, which she doesn't know. Don't ask for a job or referral, and sign off exactly \"Thanks again, Imani Brooks\".","materialLabel":"Your call notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"CALL NOTES: Tuesday, 20 min, with Ellie Navarro (product designer, Tidewater Apps)\n\n- she started as a psych major too!\n- advice 1: join a design club or community, get used to critique\n- advice 2: redo one class project as a real case study (problem, research, sketches, result)\n- advice 3: don't buy expensive courses yet, free tools are fine\n- she said Tidewater \"sometimes\" has summer interns, ask HR in February\n- she uses Figma every day\n- she has a dog named Biscuit (we talked about dogs for 3 min lol)\n- she said I could email her my case study when it's done\n\nMY NOTES (Imani Brooks, sophomore, psychology)\n- want to ask about the internship?? -> no, she literally said ask HR in Feb","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":90},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not reporting back","why":"The AI only knows your notes, so it can't say you already joined a club.","fix":"Add: \"Say I signed up for the campus UX club yesterday.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Getting a vague thank-you","why":"AI thank-yous say 'your insights were so valuable' without naming any.","fix":"Add: \"Name two pieces of her advice.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Slipping in an internship ask","why":"Because she mentioned interns, the AI may ask about them.","fix":"Add: \"Don't ask about internships or referrals. End with: Thanks again, Imani Brooks\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Cap each part: \"4 sentences, each under 16 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Forgetting where it's going","why":"AI adds bold and headings that show up as stray symbols in an email.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Reports what you did","patterns":["signed up","joined","ux club","club"]},{"label":"Names her advice","patterns":["two (pieces|things|tips)","advice","case study"]},{"label":"Rules out a job ask","patterns":["(no|not|don't|do not).{0,20}(job|intern|referral)"]},{"label":"Gives the sign-off","patterns":["thanks again, imani","sign"]},{"label":"Sets a length limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)","under \\d+"]}],"hint":"The best thank-you shows you listened and acted. Tell the AI which advice to name, what you already did, and what not to ask for.","rubricLabels":["Mentions two specific pieces of Ellie's advice from the notes","Says Imani signed up for the campus UX club (acting on the join-a-club advice)","Doesn't ask about jobs, internships or a referral, and ends with 'Thanks again, Imani Brooks'"]}