{"id":28,"date":"2026-08-01T19:18:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/prompt\/civil-service-exam-worth-it\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T20:01:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T23:01:33","slug":"civil-service-exam-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"prompt","link":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/prompt\/civil-service-exam-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This Civil Service Exam Worth It?"},"featured_media":29,"template":"","meta":{"_titulo_seo":"Is this civil service exam worth your time?","_prompt_text":"Act as a public sector career analyst who is an expert at reading exam announcements. Do not give me motivation: help me decide, with the numbers in hand, whether this exam is worth my time. Context:\r\n\r\n- Exam and role: [E.G. state police, court clerk; or paste the link to the announcement]\r\n- Openings and waiting list: [E.G. 40 openings + waiting list, 4 of them in my region]\r\n- Salary in the announcement: [E.G. $52,000 to start + meal allowance]\r\n- Testing board: [E.G. the agency or company that writes the test]\r\n- Test date and what I have studied so far: [E.G. test on November 8, studying for 3 months, grammar only]\r\n- My situation today: [E.G. I work 8 hours, 2 kids, I get 2 hours a day on weekdays]\r\n- Other exams I have my eye on: [E.G. a federal agency and a state bank]\r\n\r\nRules:\r\n1. Compare the salary in the announcement with my opportunity cost: what I earn today, what I lose in study hours and how long it takes me to make it back. Talk in dollars.\r\n2. Estimate the competition from the openings, the area covered and the education required. If there is no data, say that you are estimating and say what you are basing it on.\r\n3. Take the style of the testing board into account: some punish wrong answers on true or false questions, some ask for long written answers, some test the exact letter of the law. That changes how much preparation time is realistic.\r\n4. Add up the stages beyond the multiple choice test, such as the written essay, the physical test, the background check and the training course, and say how many extra months they cost.\r\n5. If the conclusion is \"not worth it\", say so clearly and point to the better alternative among the exams I listed.\r\n\r\nResponse format:\r\n1. **One line verdict**: worth it, worth it with a caveat, or not worth it, and why.\r\n2. **Numbers**: a table with Openings | Estimated competition | Approximate take home pay | Realistic months of preparation.\r\n3. **What weighs most in the announcement**: the 5 subjects with the biggest weight and how much of my time each one deserves.\r\n4. **Stages after the test**: what exists and how much time it adds.\r\n5. **30 day plan**: what to do over the next 4 weeks if I go ahead.\r\n6. **Signs to quit**: two objective criteria that, if they happen, mean stopping.\r\n\r\nIf I have not given you one of the numbers, say which one is missing and where to find it in the announcement, instead of making it up.","_como_usar":"Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, filling the fields in [BRACKETS] with the exam and the role, the openings, the salary printed in the announcement, the testing board, the test date and how many hours a day you can honestly study. The AI comes back with a one line verdict, the table of numbers with estimated competition and realistic months of preparation, the five subjects that weigh most, the stages that come after the written test and a 30 day plan.\r\n\r\nTwo things make the answer worth reading. First, be honest about the hours: someone who writes \"4 hours a day\" and manages 1 gets a plan they will never follow. Second, name the other exams you have been eyeing, because that is what lets the AI say \"not this one, that one\" instead of just approving what you brought in. If it says it is estimating the competition, ask for the reasoning behind the number and check the real count of candidates when it is published.","_views":34,"_likes":2,"_nota_sum":5,"_nota_count":1,"_nota_avg":5,"_nota_weight":1.5051,"_i18n_grupo":1535},"macro":[3],"subcategoria":[6],"prompt_tag":[33,63],"ferramenta":[13,14,15],"class_list":["post-28","prompt","type-prompt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","macro-text","subcategoria-education","prompt_tag-studying","prompt_tag-work","ferramenta-chatgpt","ferramenta-claude","ferramenta-gemini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prompt\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prompt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prompt"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"macro","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/macro?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"subcategoria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subcategoria?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"prompt_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prompt_tag?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"ferramenta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ferramenta?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}