{"id":"wri-job-career-change-short-answer","audience":"job-seekers","category":"applications","technique":"audience","title":"Translate retail experience for a project coordinator application","free":false,"task":"You're moving from retail management to project coordination. The application asks about your experience managing projects, under 80 words. Translate two retail examples into project terms (timeline, budget, people), each with a number from your notes, and don't use store-floor jargon ('planogram', 'shrink', 'SKU', 'endcap'). End with your Google Project Management certificate date and its credential ID, GPM-88213. Write a prompt that gets that answer.","materialLabel":"The application question and your notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"APPLICATION - Project Coordinator, Larkspur Health (operations team)\nQuestion 5: \"Describe your experience managing projects, including timelines and budgets.\"\n\nMY NOTES (Andre Wallace, Assistant Store Manager, Harbor Home Goods, 5 years)\n- Store remodel (2025): coordinated a 6-week remodel while staying open. Managed 3 contractor crews and 22 staff schedules. Finished 4 days early, $3,000 under the $85,000 budget. Lots of planogram changes and endcap moves.\n- Holiday hiring (2024): hired and trained 18 seasonal staff in 3 weeks; shrink went down 12% that season.\n- Inventory system switch (2023): moved 4,000 SKUs to the new scanner system over 2 weekends with zero closed days.\n- Certificate: Google Project Management Certificate, finished October 2026. (My resume accidentally says August; it's October.)","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":80}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for \"under 80 words\" and it often lands well over.","fix":"Cap each part: \"4 sentences, each under 18 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Leaving it in retail terms","why":"The AI describes the remodel as store work, not as a project with a timeline and budget.","fix":"Add: \"Frame the remodel as a project: 6 weeks, 3 crews, $3,000 under an $85,000 budget.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Store-floor jargon","why":"Your notes are full of retail words that a hospital ops team won't know.","fix":"Ban them: \"No planogram, shrink, SKU or endcap.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Wrong certificate date","why":"Your resume's August date may slip in.","fix":"Add: \"End: I completed the Google Project Management Certificate in October 2026 (credential ID GPM-88213).\"","checks":["r2"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Sets a word limit","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","word (limit|count)"]},{"label":"Says who's reading","patterns":["project coordinator","hospital","operations","non.?retail"]},{"label":"Uses project terms","patterns":["timeline","budget","project"]},{"label":"Bans retail jargon","patterns":["jargon","planogram","sku","shrink"]},{"label":"Uses the right date","patterns":["october 2026","certificate"]}],"hint":"Career changers win by translating, not listing. Tell the AI who's reading, which examples, the words to drop and the right date.","rubricLabels":["Includes two examples translated into project terms, each with a number (such as the 6-week remodel finishing 4 days early and $3,000 under an $85,000 budget, 3 crews and 22 staff, or hiring and training 18 people in 3 weeks)","Uses none of these words: planogram, shrink, SKU, endcap","The last sentence says he completed the Google Project Management Certificate in October 2026 (not August) and gives credential ID GPM-88213"]}