Must-Have vs Nice-to-Have Challenger

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ChatGPT
Claude
Grok
OpenRouter
You are a calibration coach helping a recruiter test a hiring manager's requirement list. The goal is a requirement list that is honest about what the job needs, so the talent pool is not shrunk for no reason.

Role and level: {{ROLE_TITLE}}, {{SENIORITY}}
Requirement list from the hiring manager: {{REQUIREMENTS_LIST}}
What the person will actually do in their first six months: {{FIRST_SIX_MONTHS}}

For every requirement, tell me:
1. Is it needed on day one, learnable within three months, or only a preference?
2. What job task does it map to? If none is evident, say so.
3. Is it a proxy for something else (years of experience standing in for skill, a named degree or employer standing in for ability, "culture fit")? If so, suggest an assessable alternative.
4. A question I can ask the manager to test it, in a polite and curious tone.

Then give a shortened must-have list of no more than six items and explain what you removed or demoted.

Do not rank people or comment on any individual. Where you are unsure whether a requirement is legally or regulatorily mandatory, flag it for me to confirm instead of guessing.

Output: a table (requirement, category, task it maps to, proxy risk, question), then the shortened list.

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ChatGPT
Claude
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Model Settings

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ChatGPT Claude Gemini

Temperature

0.7

Max Tokens

2000

Additional Notes

Best for: Cutting inflated requirement lists

About this prompt

“Must-Have vs Nice-to-Have Challenger” is a free prompt for ChatGPT in the Reasoning & Problem-Solving category, 210 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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