Mark which job description items are essential and which are optional

An annotated essential-versus-optional requirements draft.

Choose one of three approaches. The steps for that option appear below.

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Gemini Notebook: maps and drafts, you check every row

Gemini Notebook builds the map and the draft in one workspace with citations; you check both against the originals.

  1. You

    Gather the documents

  2. Gemini Notebook

    Build the map

  3. You

    Check the map

  4. Gemini Notebook

    Draft the requirements

  5. You

    Prepare review copy

  6. The reviewer

    Approve the draft

  1. Have ready: the job description and evidence

    Use: You

    Collect the existing job description and the manager-approved evidence of the work actually performed.

    Check

    Do not infer ability from school prestige, employment gaps or demographic proxies.

  2. Build the duty-to-skill map

    Use: Gemini Notebook

    Ask for a duty-to-skill map as a table: one row per item with a source citation and effective date, plus a no-evidence list.

    Details

    What to paste into the tool

    Work only from the uploaded authorized sources. Build the duty-to-skill map as a table: one row per item, asking for a source citation and effective date on each row (the reviewer rejects any row without a citation), and a 'no evidence' entry where evidence is missing. Do not add anything that is not in the sources. Do not infer ability from school prestige, employment gaps or demographic proxies.

  3. Check the map against the originals

    Use: You

    Check each row against the original inputs; reject any row without a citation.

    Check

    Do not infer ability from school prestige, employment gaps or demographic proxies.

  4. Draft the annotated requirements

    Use: Gemini Notebook

    Ask for the annotated requirements drafted only from the confirmed map, marked DRAFT, a citation per statement, open questions at the end.

    Details

    What to paste into the tool

    Using only the reviewer-confirmed rows of the duty-to-skill map in this notebook, draft the annotated essential-versus-optional requirements draft. Mark it DRAFT, ask for a citation next to each statement (the reviewer rejects any statement without one), and end with an unresolved-question section listing every open item. Do not infer ability from school prestige, employment gaps or demographic proxies.

  5. Prepare the review copy

    Use: You

    Assemble the review copy, check each reference survived the move out of Gemini Notebook, log issues and record the decision and who approved it.

    Check

    Tie each essential skill to an actual duty; manager and HR approve the split before use. Named humans retain authority. Save the review copy and the decision record.

  6. Approve the final draft

    Use: The reviewer

    Give the final yes before the draft is used anywhere.

    Check

    Check the draft names no unsupported skill and every open question is listed.

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Final check

Never paste credentials or full payment details.

Recruiter and HR reviewer: Check each draft or result against your original inputs. Do not infer ability from school prestige, employment gaps or demographic proxies.

Recruiter and HR reviewer: Each proposed essential skill is tied to an actual duty; manager and HR approve the distinction before use. Confirm all changes and the authorised audience; any communication, record update or employment decision happens separately under human authority.

Preparation only: no autonomous hiring, employee rating, pay or access change, record update, external message, purchase or legal decision. Named humans retain authority.

Speed and quality are relevant user priorities, not measured performance claims; no product binding or benchmark is asserted.

Use only material authorised for this purpose and audience; cut down employee and candidate personal data.

Keep source references, effective dates and unresolved facts; do not infer protected traits or fabricate missing evidence.

Check the result against your original inputs. Approve it before sharing or acting.

What still needs checking
  • Whether source references or citations survive export into the final review document; the reviewer re-verifies every reference in the review copy.
  • Who is authorised to approve the final wording and the audience; any communication, record update or employment decision happens separately under human authority.

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