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Decode a Job Post: Needs, Red Flags and Questions
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Job post: {{JOB_POST}}
My skills and rate floor (the lowest I would accept): {{MY_PROFILE}}
My current workload: {{WORKLOAD}}
Anything the client has said about budget or timeline: {{BUDGET_TIMELINE}}
Provide:
1. A plain restatement of what the client actually wants, separating stated requirements from guesses.
2. What is missing or ambiguous (scope, deliverables, who approves, data or access, revision limits).
3. Warning signs, each quoted from the post with why it matters (for example open-ended revisions implied, "quick" job with large scope, unpaid test work, off-platform payment requests). If there are none, say so; do not invent concerns.
4. Eight clarifying questions in priority order.
5. A bid recommendation (bid, bid with conditions, or pass) with the deciding reasons.
Rules: judge only what is written. Do not guess the client's budget. Say where a flag is a possibility, not a certainty. This is practical advice, not legal advice.
Output: the five numbered parts, concise.
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“Decode a Job Post: Needs, Red Flags and Questions” is a free prompt for ChatGPT in the Reasoning & Problem-Solving category, 174 words long, added to The Prompt Index on October 28, 2026 by The Prompt Index. Copy it with the button above, paste it into ChatGPT or any other AI chat assistant, and send it.
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{{JOB_POST}}, {{MY_PROFILE}}, {{WORKLOAD}}, {{BUDGET_TIMELINE}}.
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