Verified against Claude · 2026-08-06
Write a LinkedIn hiring post that gets read, not scrolled past
Turn a job opening into a post-native hiring announcement that leads with the real problem the hire will own, distinct from a pasted job description with a company logo.
The prompt
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Role: Senior Backend Engineer. What this person will actually spend their time doing: Rebuild our billing pipeline off a legacy system that breaks under load spikes. Team and company context: Team of 4 engineers, no dedicated DevOps, we ship every Friday. What's genuinely different about this role or team, if anything: You would be the first backend hire with real ownership over architecture. How to apply: DM me directly or apply at example.com/careers/backend-engineer. Write a LinkedIn hiring post, not a job description. Structure: 1. Hook — lead with the real problem this hire will own or solve, specific enough that the right candidate recognizes it, not "We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer!" 2. A typical week — 2-3 concrete things this person will actually do, not a list of responsibilities lifted from a JD template 3. One honest line about what's genuinely hard about this role — not a fake weakness like "you'll work with passionate people," an actual difficulty 4. One true, specific line about the team or company — grounded in something real from Team of 4 engineers, no dedicated DevOps, we ship every Friday, not a generic "fast-paced, dynamic environment" 5. A single clear next action: DM me directly or apply at example.com/careers/backend-engineer Do not use "rockstar," "ninja," "wear many hats," "work hard play hard," "fast-paced environment," or any close variant of these. After writing it, check your own draft against that list and flag if any snuck in anyway.
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Why this works
A hiring post that reads like the job description gets scrolled past because candidates already see dozens of nearly identical ones in a single feed session — leading with the real problem the hire will own, instead of the title, is what lets the right candidate self-select in in the first line. The instruction to include one genuinely hard part of the role matters because omitting it doesn't make the role look better, it makes the post read as less honest, and honesty about difficulty is what separates a post a serious candidate trusts from one written by whoever owns the careers page. Banning specific corporate hiring clichés — and asking the model to self-check against them — targets phrases that have become a documented candidate-repellent signal precisely because every recruiter on the platform uses the same ones.
What you get back
Our billing pipeline breaks every time we get a traffic spike, and right now that's a 2am page for whoever's on call. We're hiring a senior backend engineer to rebuild it properly — not patch it again. A typical week: redesigning the queue architecture, pairing with our one other backend engineer on load testing, and making the call on what gets rebuilt first versus what can wait. Honest part: there's no dedicated DevOps here yet, so you'll own more infrastructure decisions than a senior role at a bigger company usually would. We're 4 engineers, ship every Friday, and you'd be the first person with real architectural ownership on this system. DM me or apply at example.com/careers/backend-engineer.
Verified against
Claude Sonnet 5 · 2026-08-06
ChatGPT GPT-5.1 · 2026-08-07
Changelog
- 2026-08-07 — Initial version.
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