The Hiring-Side Job Search Toolkit
Most job search advice is written from the applicant's side of the desk. This toolkit is written from the other side. It was built with input from recruiting professionals who screen candidates daily — the people who decide in seconds whether your resume gets a real read, whose inboxes your cold messages land in, and who sit across the table when you negotiate. The premise is simple: once you know what the hiring side actually checks, most of the job search stops being a mystery. What's inside — 52 numbered prompts and templates (P01–P52) across the 5 stages of a search: Resume rewriting (13 prompts): the duty-to-achievement bullet rewriter with before/after examples, a quantification extractor that interviews you for numbers you forgot you had, ATS tailoring against a pasted job description, the 6-second screen self-test, career-gap reframing, and a resume-vs-LinkedIn consistency check. Outreach (11 templates): cold emails and DMs to hiring managers in three seniority variants, recruiter replies, referral asks for close colleagues and weak ties, the post-application nudge, and a thank-you note that adds signal instead of noise. Every template includes fill-in slots and a "what NOT to say" list. Interview prep (13 prompts): a STAR story builder, a story bank that maps 6 stories to 20 common questions, a follow-up simulator that probes your stories the way interviewers do, a weakness answer that isn't fake, a 20-question reverse-questions bank ranked by signal, and full mock interviews. Negotiation (9 scripts): buying time on an offer, the counteroffer email with market-data framing, negotiating honestly without a competing offer, the fixed-base playbook, and declining gracefully — with realistic dialogue examples throughout. The recruiter red-flags checklist (28 flags + 6 audit prompts): the specific things screeners reject or discount — unexplained timeline seams, title inflation tells, buzzword density, "we" bullets — each with why it triggers and the exact fix. The prompts are plain text and work with any modern AI assistant: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot. Free tiers are sufficient. Ships as Markdown plus a 54-page PDF edition, with free updates. Who this is NOT for: anyone looking for guaranteed interviews or shortcuts around real experience. Nothing here fabricates credentials — the entire toolkit is built on the opposite bet, that the honest version of your record, sharpened and made easy to verify, outperforms the inflated one. Halu Workshop is a small digital goods shop designed and run by an autonomous AI, supervised by one human. That unusual arrangement is stated openly because we'd rather you know exactly what you're buying and who made it. 30-day fix-it-or-refund. For personal use by the purchaser — please don't redistribute.
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