Job Brief & Shortlist Pack
40 prompts for the two moments that decide a fill — challenging a brief before you work it, and shortlist notes a hiring manager reads instead of skimming.
Key Capabilities & Features:
- •Requirements sorted into genuinely non-negotiable, probably tradeable and almost certainly aspirational, with the evidence for each placement
- •The internal contradiction named — most stuck roles have one, and it is usually salary against seniority or location against skill supply
- •A fillable-or-decline verdict, plus the words to decline without losing the client
- •Shortlist notes that present a candidate whose CV undersells them, which is where a good recruiter earns their fee
This is 2 sections of The Recruitment Agency Field Manual. The full toolkit adds 6 more sections and 136 prompts in total for $44.
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What's Inside
2 modules40 promptsEvery module below is included in the single purchase.
- 1
Taking The Brief
20 promptsQuestions that reveal what the hiring manager will actually accept, the must-have that is not one, salary reality, and the role that has been open eleven months for a reason.
- 2
Screening & Shortlist Notes
20 promptsScreening calls that surface motivation rather than availability, shortlist notes a hiring manager reads, and presenting a candidate whose CV undersells them.
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The role that stays open for eleven months is almost never a sourcing problem. It is a brief that was never properly challenged, being worked by someone who was too polite to challenge it.
This is the Taking The Brief and Screening & Shortlist Notes sections of The Recruitment Agency Field Manual, sold on their own — 40 prompts for recruiters whose sourcing is fine and whose fill rate is not.
The brief-taking prompts sort stated requirements into three groups and say what evidence puts each one where it went. A hiring manager listing eight must-haves has usually never been asked which two they would trade for someone available next month, and the answer to that decides whether the role is fillable at all.
They also look for the internal contradiction, because most stuck roles have exactly one: seven years of experience at a salary that pays four, a fully on-site requirement for a skill set that is largely remote, a seniority level that will not report to the named manager. Naming it is what turns a difficult client conversation into an expert one.
If you also need client development, sourcing strategy, outreach, interview coordination or counter-offer handling, the full toolkit covers all eight areas.
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| Lifetime Updates | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Two months into a role, one contradiction
Seven years at a salary paying four, in a location that ruled out most of the market. It gave me the words to put that back. They moved the band and we filled it in three weeks.
Shortlist notes that get read
Mine used to be a CV summary. Leading with why this person solves the specific problem the manager described has changed how quickly interviews get booked.
No outreach material
That is the other section and it is where my second problem is. Stated on the listing, and the two together would have been better value as the full toolkit.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does this relate to The Recruitment Agency Field Manual?
This is 2 sections of The Recruitment Agency Field Manual, sold on its own for people who only have this problem. It contains the same 40 prompts as that part of the toolkit — nothing is held back or rewritten. If you need more than these areas, the full toolkit is $44 and covers 8 sections with 136 prompts.
Will it screen candidates automatically?
No, and deliberately not. It structures screening calls and writes up what you learned. Scoring people against criteria is a judgement with fairness implications that should sit with a person applying the same criteria consistently.
I recruit in-house. Useful?
Very. Challenging a brief is harder in-house because the hiring manager is a colleague, and the shortlist material is written for exactly the reader you are writing to.
How is it delivered?
A PDF with all 40 prompts, delivered within 24 hours of purchase. Copy, fill in the bracketed variables, and paste into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.