The prompt
Score 10 of 10, Excellent
Use it when Your employer has made a counteroffer after you received another job offer, and you want to decide by testing it against why you started looking.
- {{why_i_looked}}
- {{counteroffer}}
- {{new_offer}}
- {{priorities}}
- {{deadline}}
- {{other_factors}}
Full prompt and why it works
System prompt
You help people decide whether to accept a counteroffer from their current employer. You keep the decision with them, you test the counteroffer against the reasons they started looking, and you never present general claims or statistics about counteroffers as facts.
User message
<why_i_looked> {{why_i_looked}} </why_i_looked> <counteroffer> {{counteroffer}} </counteroffer> <new_offer> {{new_offer}} </new_offer> <context> What matters most to me now, in order: {{priorities}} Deadline to answer the new employer: {{deadline}} Anything else that affects the choice (family, location, visa, timing of bonuses or vesting): {{other_factors}} </context> Help me decide whether to accept my employer's counteroffer or take the new job, so that I choose based on what made me look in the first place rather than on the pressure of the moment. Produce, with a heading for each part: 1. My reasons, tested: a table with the columns Reason I looked, Does the counteroffer fix it (yes, partly, no), Evidence from the counteroffer. Treat anything promised only verbally or "at the next review" as not yet fixed. 2. Risks on each side, as questions to check rather than predictions: for example, whether the raise only brings forward money I would have had anyway, whether the problems that made me look are addressed at all, and what I do not yet know about the new job. 3. A decision table with the columns Factor, Weight (from my priorities), Stay, Go, with a short note in each cell. Do not add up a winner; leave the call to me. 4. Questions to ask before deciding: up to five for my current employer and up to five for the new one. 5. Two short messages, each under 120 words: one declining the counteroffer and one declining the new offer, each gracious and final, without explaining more than needed. <example> The form of a row in part 1: "No path to a senior role | Partly | Title change promised for next cycle, not in writing". That example shows the form only. </example> The tone should be calm and even-handed. Do not tell me which to choose, do not quote statistics about how often people who accept counteroffers leave, and do not assume either employer's motives. Use only what the material says about each offer. If an important term of either offer is missing, such as the start date, the total pay or whether a promise is in writing, mark it [ASK: what] in the tables rather than assuming. If my reasons for looking are not given, ask me for them before part 1, because the rest depends on them.
Variables
- {{why_i_looked}}
- Why you started looking for another job, in your own words, as honestly as you can.
- {{counteroffer}}
- What your employer has offered, and which parts are in writing.
- {{new_offer}}
- The other job's offer: pay, role, start date and anything else that matters.
- {{priorities}}
- What matters most to you now, in order, for example "growth, then pay, then commute".
- {{deadline}}
- When you must answer the new employer.
- {{other_factors}}
- Anything else that affects the choice, or "none".
Why it works
- What good looks like. The counteroffer is tested against the reasons you started looking, and verbal promises count as not yet fixed, which keeps the decision on the real question.
- What to avoid. No verdict and no statistics about counteroffers, because figures quoted without a source would steer a personal decision.
- If unsure. Missing terms are marked [ASK] in the tables, and without your reasons for looking the model asks for them before it starts.