Job post prompt: free ChatGPT template
Updated · By Robert Breen
Use this when you need the ad itself: the text for a job board or your careers page, written to get the right people to apply. Ask for "a job post for a plumber" and you get buzzwords and a made-up benefits list. This prompt supplies your real pay, schedule and must-haves, and keeps the wording about the work, not the person you picture doing it. (For the internal record of the role, use the job description prompt.)
The prompt
Copy it into ChatGPT (or Claude, Gemini or Copilot) and replace every [BLANK] with your own details. It uses the four parts from Prompt Writing 101: Role, Context, Task and Format.
Role: You are the hiring manager at [BUSINESS], writing a job post that people who already do this work would want to read. Context: We're hiring a [JOB TITLE]. Facts about the job: [JOB FACTS]. Must-haves: [MUST HAVES]. Use only these facts; don't invent benefits, pay or growth promises. Describe the work, not the kind of person, and avoid words that signal age, gender or background, such as "young," "digital native" or "rockstar." Task: Write a job post that says what the job is and why it's a good one, lists the daily work, keeps the must-haves apart from nice-to-haves, and ends with how to apply: [HOW TO APPLY]. Format: Under 300 words. Job title as the heading, a two-sentence opener, then What you'll do, What you need, Pay and schedule, How to apply. One-line bullets, no emoji.
Fill in the blanks
[BUSINESS]- Your business name and what you do, in a few words.
[JOB TITLE]- The title people search for on job boards ("service plumber"), not an internal one ("Field Technician II").
[JOB FACTS]- Pay range, hours, full or part time, location, what a normal day looks like, and any real benefits. The post may only use these.
[MUST HAVES]- The three to five things someone truly needs on day one. Everything else belongs under nice to have, or nowhere.
[HOW TO APPLY]- Exactly what to do and what to send, such as "apply through this posting with a resume or a few lines about your experience."
Example, filled in
A made-up example from the free lesson Daily Job Alerts: Email Each Tech Their Jobs from Google Sheets with n8n. Rapid Flow Plumbing is the made-up plumbing company in the Daily Job Alerts lesson, where each tech gets their jobs by email at 7 every morning. It needs a fifth service plumber.
Role: You are the hiring manager at Rapid Flow Plumbing, a residential plumbing company with four techs, writing a job post that people who already do this work would want to read. Context: We're hiring a service plumber. Facts about the job: full time, Monday to Friday 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., one on-call weekend a month; $28 to $34 an hour by experience; a stocked company van; each day's jobs arrive by email at 7 a.m. Must-haves: a current journeyman plumber license, two years of residential service work, a valid driver's license, and the ability to explain a repair to a homeowner in plain words. Use only these facts; don't invent benefits, pay or growth promises. Describe the work, not the kind of person, and avoid words that signal age, gender or background, such as "young," "digital native" or "rockstar." Task: Write a job post that says what the job is and why it's a good one, lists the daily work, keeps the must-haves apart from nice-to-haves, and ends with how to apply: apply through this posting with a resume or a few lines about your experience. Format: Under 300 words. Job title as the heading, a two-sentence opener, then What you'll do, What you need, Pay and schedule, How to apply. One-line bullets, no emoji.
What a good answer looks like
- Pay, hours and on-call schedule exactly as you gave them, near the top.
- A short What you need list with only your must-haves, so qualified people don't talk themselves out of applying.
- Verbs about the work ("diagnose leaks, explain the fix") instead of adjectives about the person.
- One clear way to apply, stated once.
How to check it before you use it
An AI draft can sound right and still say something you never told it. Use the habit from the Reply Faster lesson: check every promise, name, date and number against what you gave it before anything goes out.
- Check every promise: each benefit, pay figure and schedule detail must match your Job facts. Delete anything it added, like "401(k) match" or "room to grow."
- Read it for coded language. "Young team," "high energy" or "native English speaker" push away people who could do the job well.
- Test each must-have: if nobody on your current team had it when hired, it probably isn't one.
- Some US states and cities require a pay range in postings. If yours does, confirm it's there.
Why this prompt works
The Context hands over the facts and rules out invented perks and biased wording before they appear; the Format forces must-haves into their own short section. Those rules are prompt constraints, and they sit inside Role, Context, Task, Format.
Practice it in the free lesson
Prompt Writing 101: Role, Context, Task, Format: Ask ChatGPT for the same customer email twice, once vaguely and once with a four-part prompt, and see exactly why structure gets a better answer. You do every step yourself in a practice copy of ChatGPT, and nothing touches your real accounts.
Also useful: Turn an Interview Debrief into a Scorecard and a Candidate Follow-Up (Recruiting & HR)
Terms used here
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