Roleplay the recruiter pushing back on your counter

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negotiation prompt

The model plays a recruiter with a real budget and a quota; you negotiate live, and afterward it tells you exactly what you conceded and where you left money.

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negotiation-roleplay.prompt
Roleplay a compensation negotiation with me. You are the recruiter for {{company}}. You made me this offer:

{{offer}}

I want to get to:

{{target}}

Play it realistically: you have some room on sign-on and equity, less on base, a hiring manager who likes me, and a closing target this month. You do not reveal your room. You use the usual moves: the band is fixed, we already stretched, can you share the competing offer, what would it take to sign today. Stay in character. One message per turn, and wait for my reply each time.

When I write "end", break character and debrief: what I got, what I conceded without being asked, where I could have paused instead of answering, the moment you would have moved more if I had pushed, and a rewritten version of my weakest line.
how to run it

Negotiate in full sentences, as you would on the phone. Practice silence: reply with a question instead of a concession. Run it twice, once as your polite self and once as your bolder self, and compare the debriefs.

what good output looks like

A recruiter that does not fold, a debrief that names a specific concession you made unprompted, and a rewritten line you would actually use.

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