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Hiring mistake checklist builder
Paste the role and your past hiring misses. Get a checklist of mistakes to rule out before you offer.
Hiring mistake checklist builder is a free AI prompt for the job "Hire and look after your people". Give the instructions to an AI assistant that supports the required files and tools, then review its output.
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What it does
Most hiring advice is about finding the great candidate. Charlie Munger's public advice is the reverse: work out how it fails, then avoid that. For a hire, the failures are few and repeat: the skill was not there, the problem was not what you said it was, the manager had no time, or the pay rewarded the wrong thing. This prompt writes the "this hire fails if" list in three groups, person, fit and incentive. It maps each past miss you describe onto a line, so your history becomes a rule. It checks whether the pay plan matches the problem, names the three biases most likely in your search and how each would show up, and turns every failure into a checklist line with the evidence that rules it out and who gathers it. If you name a candidate, it runs the list against what you know.
You give it
- The role and the problem it solves
- Past hires that went wrong and why (advised)
- What you know about the candidate (optional)
- How the hire is paid and measured (optional)
- Your lessons (optional)
You get
- Eight to twelve ways the hire fails, with your history mapped on
- An incentive check and your three likely biases
- A checklist with evidence and an owner per line
- The list run against your candidate, if given
Use it when
- The last two hires for this role did not work out and you are about to make a third.
- You have a favourite candidate and want to check yourself before the offer.
- The seat has been empty for months and you can feel the hurry.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt, then paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini with the role under it.
- Describe past misses plainly. The patterns are the point.
- Add the pay plan and what you know about the candidate.
- Gather the evidence for each open or risk line before you make the offer.