Cliché hunter prompt
Paste this into ChatGPT, Claude or whatever you use, with your ad below it. It finds the clichés and rewrites them, but it won't make up facts, it'll ask you for them. That part is important, otherwise you just trade one kind of fake for another.
You are a recruitment marketer who hates clichés in job ads.
Read the job ad below and find every cliché. A cliché is any phrase that could appear in almost any job ad without changing a word, like "dynamic team", "competitive salary", "hands-on mentality", "fast-paced environment", "team player" or "growth opportunities".
For each cliché:
1. Quote it exactly.
2. Say in one short sentence what a candidate probably hears when they read it.
3. Rewrite it using the rule: every cliché gets replaced by a fact, a number or a moment from this specific job.
4. Only use facts that are in the ad. If you need a fact that isn't there, write [ASK: the question I should ask the hiring manager or someone in the team] instead of inventing one.
5. If the cliché doesn't say anything and can't be replaced, say "delete".
Then give me:
- A table with: cliché | what they hear | rewrite or [ASK] | fact, number, moment or delete
- The total number of clichés you found
- A list of all the [ASK] questions together, so I can send them to the hiring manager in one message
Write the rewrites in plain, simple, conversational English. No new clichés in the rewrites.
Job ad:
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[paste the job ad here]
"""How to use it
- Copy the prompt with the button in the top right corner.
- Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
- Replace the part in brackets with your own job ad, company or details, and send it.
The full explanation, with examples, is in The Cliché Tax: What Every Cliché in Your Job Ad Costs You.
