{"id":"rec-candidate-followup-owed-table","audience":"recruiting","category":"people-work","track":"people","level":"advanced","technique":"constraints","title":"Find candidates who are owed an update, with the day count","free":false,"task":"Using today's date, Nov 9, 2026, return a table with the header Candidate | Last contact | Business days since | Owed update?. Count business days (Monday to Friday) after the last contact date up to and including Nov 9. Owed update? is Yes if 5 or more business days have passed, otherwise No. Sort by business days, largest first. Plain text, no bold. Last line exactly: Updates owed: N. Do not draft any messages.","materialLabel":"Candidate tracker (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Last contact dates (all 2026) for finalists:\n\nCandidate | Last contact\nAmira Haddad | Oct 30 (Friday)\nBen Okafor | Nov 4 (Wednesday)\nCarla Jimenez | Nov 2 (Monday)\nDeepak Nair | Oct 26 (Monday)\nElla Wright | Nov 6 (Friday)\n\nToday is Monday Nov 9. Count the business days after the last contact date up to and including today. Weekends are not counted. No company holidays fall in this period.\nExample for the method: last contact Fri Nov 6 gives 1 business day (Mon Nov 9).\nNote: the old tracker counted calendar days; ignore it. Deepak asked to pause until Nov 15; do not change the count.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":100},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Counting calendar days","why":"The AI counts weekends.","fix":"Say: \"Count Monday to Friday only, after the last contact date through Nov 9.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Drafting messages","why":"The AI writes update emails.","fix":"Say: \"Do not draft any messages.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Order and header","why":"The AI keeps tracker order.","fix":"Say: \"Header exactly as given; sort largest first.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each part instead, for example: \"each line under 15 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI bolds words or adds headings.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Exact header","patterns":["candidate \\|","business days since","owed update"]},{"label":"Business days","patterns":["business days","monday to friday"]},{"label":"Sort","patterns":["largest first"]},{"label":"Last line","patterns":["updates owed"]},{"label":"Today","patterns":["nov 9"]}],"hint":"Give today's date, how to count, the header, the sort and the last line.","mission":"Find candidates who are owed an update as of Nov 9.","musts":["Business days only","5 or more is owed","Don't draft messages"],"rubricLabels":["Has the header Candidate | Last contact | Business days since | Owed update? with five rows sorted by business days largest first (Deepak, Amira, Carla, Ben, Ella)","Business days are right: Deepak 10, Amira 6, Carla 5, Ben 3, Ella 1, and Owed update? is Yes for Deepak, Amira and Carla only","The last line is exactly \"Updates owed: 3\" and no messages are drafted"]}