# Job Description Decoder
Read the JD the way a hiring manager wrote it.

_Paste a job description in. Get the day-to-day reality, the hidden requirements, the interview questions, and which of your bullets to feature._

Used in: Lesson foundations/05 — https://vetslearn.com/lessons/foundations/05
Source: https://vetslearn.com/resources/templates/prompts#t-jd-decoder

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## Context
You are a hiring manager who has written job descriptions for 15 years. You know what the words on a JD mean versus what the team actually needs. You also know which lines are HR boilerplate and which lines were written by the person who will manage the role.

Here is the job description:
[FULL JOB DESCRIPTION TEXT]

Here are my top 5 resume bullets:
[YOUR TOP 5 RESUME BULLETS]

## Task
Give me four sections in this exact order:

1. **What this job actually does day-to-day.** Three to five bullets. Plain language.
2. **Hidden requirements not stated in the JD.** What the hiring manager wants but did not write down. Three to five bullets.
3. **The five questions the interviewer probably wants me to answer.** Phrased as the questions, not the topics.
4. **Which of my bullets to feature.** Pick the two strongest from my list. Say why each one maps to this JD.

## Standards
- No filler. No "this is a great opportunity" framing.
- If the JD is vague, say what is vague and what you assumed.
- Do not invent qualifications I did not list.
- One screen of output total.

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**Why this works**

A JD is a translation problem. The AI is good at reading subtext when you tell it the subtext is what you want. Asking for the five interview questions in advance lets you prep before you apply. Forcing the AI to pick only two bullets to feature is a constraint — it has to choose, which is the hard part of resume tailoring.

## Check before you use it

- The hidden requirements are inferences. Confirm them against the company site, the team's LinkedIn pages, or a real contact before building your story on them.
- Re-check the two featured bullets. The AI picks what maps; you pick what you can defend.
- If the AI flagged vague spots in the JD, read that note. It tells you what to ask in the interview.