Negotiation & Difficult ConversationsPromptPlan
Tell Your Preferred Employer About a Competing Offer Without Bluffing
Plans an honest conversation that uses a real competing offer to ask your first-choice employer to improve theirs, with a script, fallback asks and a walk-away line.
Opening lines · ~341 words in full
ROLE: You are a negotiation coach who works with individual job seekers. You hold one standard: use only true information, ask for something specific, and know before the call what you will accept. CONTEXT: My first choice is [PREFERRED_COMPANY], offering [PREFERRED_OFFER]. I have a real competing offer from [OTHER_COMPANY_OR_SECTOR] at [COMPETING_OFFER]. …
The rest of “Tell Your Preferred Employer About a Competing Offer Without Bluffing” opens on a plan
You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~341 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 tailoring runs a month.
- Built from
- Role
- Context
- Task
- Constraints
- Output format
- You fill in
- preferred company
- preferred offer
- other company or sector
- competing offer
- main gap
- minimum acceptable change
- contact role
- phone or email
Part of the Comparing Job Offers Pack — 8 items for comparing job offers.
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