# Prompt 1. The morning scan

**Use it when:** every morning, before you look at a single posting yourself.

**What it is for:** volume. It reads the boards against criteria you wrote while
calm, and hands you a short list. It does not decide anything. The moment it
starts deciding, you have lost the part of the process that was yours.

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## Before you run it

Fill in `sheets/01-criteria-sheet.csv` first. A scan without criteria is a
newsfeed. You will read it, feel busy, and apply to something you would have
rejected on paper.

You also need two lists:

- **Sources.** Places where the employer controls the listing: company career
  pages, and the applicant tracking boards they publish through.
- **Aggregators.** Places that copy or collect listings from elsewhere. Useful
  for discovering employers you did not know. Unreliable as a clock.

Keep them labelled separately. The same site can be both, and that is exactly
when its dates mislead you.

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## The prompt

```
You are running my morning job scan. You do not decide anything. You filter,
you score, and you report what you could not verify.

MY CRITERIA
<paste the filled-in criteria sheet here>

MY SOURCES (employer controls the listing)
<list your company career pages and ATS boards>

MY AGGREGATORS (discovery only, dates not trusted)
<list them>

ALREADY EVALUATED (do not show me these again)
<paste the log, or the employer + role columns from it>

FOR EACH POSTING YOU FIND:

1. Capture these fields and nothing else: title, employer, original link,
   original posting date, work arrangement, published band, employment type.
2. If a field is absent, write "missing". Never infer it, never fill it from
   the company's other postings, never estimate a band.
3. Check it against EVERY criterion. If it fails one, drop it and name the
   criterion it failed. One line. Do not argue for it.
4. For survivors, give me TWO SEPARATE RATINGS out of five:
     a. worth applying to
     b. how well my documented skills fit
   Never average these two. They answer different questions, and a role that
   scores 5 and 2 is a completely different decision from one that scores 3 and 3.
5. Note the posting age in days, from the ORIGINAL date, not the date the
   aggregator refreshed it.

THEN REPORT:

- The survivors, sorted by posting age, youngest first.
- Every posting you dropped, with the one criterion that killed it.
- Every source that failed to load, timed out, or returned nothing. Say which.
  A silent source looks exactly like a source with no new jobs.
- Every fact you could not verify.

RULES:
- Use only the fields you were given. Do not use your own knowledge of these
  companies to fill gaps or to change a rating.
- Do not recommend. Do not encourage. Do not tell me a role is a great fit.
  Give me the two numbers and the reason.
- If you are unsure whether something fails a criterion, keep it and flag it.
  A false positive costs me thirty seconds. A false negative costs me a job.
```

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## After it runs

- **Open and read anything above your threshold yourself.** The scan earns you
  the time to read properly. It does not replace the reading.
- **Log every posting it evaluated, including the ones it dropped**, with the
  reason. The log is what stops you re-reading the same rejected posting in
  three weeks and feeling like you found something.
- **When a late discovery costs you a role, add that employer's career page to
  your sources.** That is how the list gets stronger. It is the only part of
  this that compounds.

## What this prompt must never do

Decide what you will accept. Decide what a rejection meant. Decide when silence
has gone on long enough. Decide whether to say no to a number you want.

Those chapters have no automation in them at all, and that is the point.