{"id":"job-offer-compare","audience":"job-seekers","category":"decisions","technique":"format","title":"Compare two job offers side by side without a verdict","free":false,"task":"You have two job offers and will decide with your partner on Sunday. You want a phone-friendly comparison: a first line with each offer's first-year pay (base plus signing bonus), then exactly 4 numbered points that each compare both offers, under 120 words, plain text. No recommendation: you'll decide yourselves. Watch for a correction and a rumor in your notes. Write a prompt that gets you exactly that.","materialLabel":"Your offer letters and notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"OFFER A - Harbor Medical Supply, Inside Sales Rep (Columbus, OH)\nBase salary $62,000. Signing bonus $2,000.\n15 PTO days.\nHybrid: 3 days a week in the office. Commute 35 minutes each way. Free parking.\nHealth insurance: employee pays $120/month.\nManager said promotion to Account Executive usually happens after about 18 months.\n\nOFFER B - Lakeview Logistics, Customer Account Specialist\nBase salary $60,000. Signing bonus $5,000.\n12 PTO days, plus your birthday off.\nFully remote.\nHealth insurance: employee pays $95/month.\nNo set promotion path. \"We promote when it makes sense.\"\n\nEMAIL FROM LAKEVIEW HR (2 days later):\n\"Apologies, the signing bonus in your offer letter was a typo. The correct amount is $3,000. Everything else stands.\"\n\nMY NOTES:\n- Partner and I are deciding together on Sunday.\n- Gas is about $40/week for office days.\n- Lakeview recruiter was super nice.\n- Saw a Reddit post saying Lakeview is about to have layoffs. No idea if that's true.\n- Both want an answer by next Wednesday.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":4},{"type":"maxWords","max":120},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Asking \"which should I take?\"","why":"The AI happily picks a winner for you, even though it doesn't know what matters most to you and your partner.","fix":"Add: \"Don't recommend either offer. Just compare them.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Missing the corrected bonus","why":"The offer letter says $5,000 in bold numbers. The AI often uses it and misses the HR correction below.","fix":"Add: \"Use the corrected Lakeview bonus from the HR email.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Getting a long table or essay","why":"AI defaults to a big markdown table or a pros-and-cons list for each offer, hard to read on a phone.","fix":"Be exact: \"Exactly 4 numbered points, each comparing both offers on one topic. Plain text.\"","checks":["numberedItems","r1","plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for \"under 120 words\" and it often lands well over.","fix":"Cap each part instead, like \"each line under 15 words,\" so the total lands near 95.","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Treating a rumor as news","why":"The AI may repeat the Reddit layoff post as a real risk factor.","fix":"Add: \"Use only the offer facts. Leave out the Reddit rumor or call it unconfirmed.\"","checks":["r2"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says how many points","patterns":["\\b(4|four)\\b.{0,20}(points|items|numbered|lines)"]},{"label":"Asks for first-year pay first","patterns":["first.{0,10}(line|year)","total","base.{0,20}bonus"]},{"label":"Asks for no recommendation","patterns":["(no|don't|do not|without).{0,15}(recommend|verdict|pick|choose)","neutral"]},{"label":"Handles the correction or rumor","patterns":["correct","rumor","reddit","3,?000"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting","no headings"]}],"hint":"The AI loves to give advice and big tables. Tell it the exact shape you want, that it must not pick a winner, and which numbers and claims to trust.","rubricLabels":["The first line gives each offer's first-year base plus signing bonus, using the corrected Lakeview bonus (Harbor $64,000; Lakeview $63,000, not $65,000)","Each of the 4 numbered points compares both offers on one topic (for example commute or remote work, PTO, health insurance cost, promotion path)","Gives no recommendation or verdict about which offer is better, and does not present the Reddit layoff rumor as fact (leaving it out or calling it an unconfirmed rumor both pass)"]}