{"id":"fpa-cost-per-hire-definition-lines","audience":"fpa","category":"finance-work","track":"finance","technique":"constraints","level":"beginner","title":"Compute cost per hire using the company definition","free":false,"task":"You're calculating cost per hire for HR and Finance. Write a prompt for plain text with lines starting \"Agency fees:\", \"Referral bonus:\", \"Job ads:\", \"Total:\" and \"Cost per hire:\". Agency fees are 20% of first-year salary. Cost per hire counts recruiting costs only (agency fees, referral bonuses and job ads) divided by the number of hires; equipment and onboarding are left out. Show the math. Under 70 words.","materialLabel":"Source material (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Q3 HIRING COSTS\n\nHires made in the quarter:\n- Hire A: agency placement, salary $90,000\n- Hire B: employee referral, salary $70,000; referral bonus paid: $2,000\n- Hire C: agency placement, salary $110,000\n\nJob board ads for the quarter: $3,000 in total.\nNew-hire laptop and equipment: $4,500 in total.\nOnboarding training time (estimated): $6,000.\n\nThe VP of People will compare this with a benchmark of $4,700 per hire that she saw in a published survey; the definitions in that survey may differ from ours.","rules":[{"type":"plainText"},{"type":"maxWords","max":70}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Names the five lines","patterns":["agency fees","referral bonus","job ads","total","cost per hire"]},{"label":"Uses the company definition","patterns":["definition","recruiting costs only"]},{"label":"Applies the agency rate","patterns":["20%","agency"]},{"label":"Asks for the math","patterns":["show the math","math"]},{"label":"Caps length","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","under \\d+"]}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Adding equipment and onboarding","why":"The AI includes every cost in the material.","fix":"Say: \"Use the company definition: recruiting costs only.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Fee on all three hires","why":"The AI applies the agency fee to Hire B.","fix":"Add: \"Agency fee applies to agency hires only.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Skipping the math","why":"The AI states $15,000 with no steps.","fix":"Add: \"Show each calculation.\"","checks":["r1","r2"]},{"title":"Markdown extras","why":"The AI adds bold labels, headings and a closing note.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text, no bold. Output only the lines asked for.\"","checks":["plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting and runs past word limits.","fix":"Ask for fewer words than the real cap and keep each part short.","checks":["maxWords"]}],"hint":"The definition decides what counts. Say what is in and what is out.","rubricLabels":["The five lines start Agency fees:, Referral bonus:, Job ads:, Total: and Cost per hire: in that order; Agency fees shows 20% x ($90,000 + $110,000) = $40,000 and Referral bonus shows $2,000","Job ads shows $3,000 and Total shows $40,000 + $2,000 + $3,000 = $45,000","Cost per hire shows $45,000 / 3 = $15,000, and equipment ($4,500) and onboarding ($6,000) are not included"]}