career
Use when preparing for interviews, assessing skills, analyzing job opportunities, navigating stakeholder politics, or developing professional capabilities. Auto-activates on interview prep, career assessment, job search, skill gaps, feedback interpretation, leadership development, or professional growth tasks.
When & Why to Use This Skill
The Career Skill is a comprehensive professional development agent designed to accelerate career growth through AI-driven interview simulations, skill gap analysis, and strategic workplace navigation. It utilizes structured frameworks like STAR-C for storytelling and SBI for feedback, helping users master behavioral interviews, evaluate job opportunities, and refine executive communication for maximum leadership impact.
Use Cases
- Interview Simulation: Conduct realistic behavioral and technical interview practice sessions with direct, evidence-based feedback to improve candidate performance.
- Skill Gap Analysis: Perform deep-dive assessments of professional capabilities and AI fluency to identify weaknesses and create actionable development plans.
- Stakeholder Navigation: Strategize complex office politics and improve executive communication using mental models like the Ladder of Inference and SBI feedback.
- Job Market Intelligence: Analyze job postings and company data (OSINT) to align professional experience with employer requirements and optimize application strategies.
- Productivity & Focus: Evaluate meeting ROI and deep work capacity to maximize professional output and career-long learning efficiency.
| name | career |
|---|---|
| description | Use when preparing for interviews, assessing skills, analyzing job opportunities, navigating stakeholder politics, or developing professional capabilities. Auto-activates on interview prep, career assessment, job search, skill gaps, feedback interpretation, leadership development, or professional growth tasks. |
Career Skill
Router skill for career development workflows. Detects task type and routes to appropriate workflow.
When This Skill Activates
You're working on:
- Interview preparation or simulation
- Career/skill assessment and gap analysis
- Job posting analysis or opportunity evaluation
- STAR narrative building for behavioral interviews
- Stakeholder navigation and political situations
- Executive communication evaluation
- Professional skill development and practice drills
- Focus capacity and meeting ROI analysis
- Perspective shifting on career challenges
Workflow Selection
Announce which workflow you're using:
| Task Type | Workflow | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| AI fluency evaluation, skill assessment | AI Fluency Assessment | references/assess.md |
| Interview practice, scenario simulation | Interview Simulator | references/simulate.md |
| Behavioral stories, achievement narratives | STAR-C Narrative | references/star.md |
| Weakness patterns, skill gap analysis | Gap Analysis | references/gap.md |
| Practice drills, situation-to-skill | Practice Drill | references/drill.md |
| Executive updates, leadership emails | Communication Eval | references/eval-comm.md |
| Political situations, stakeholder dynamics | Stakeholder Navigator | references/stakeholder.md |
| Mental ruts, alternative viewpoints | Perspective Shift | references/reframe.md |
| Meeting costs, deep work capacity | Focus Capacity | references/focus.md |
| Job posting OSINT, company intelligence | Job Intel | references/osint.md |
Related Thinking Tools
From hope/skills/soul/references/tools/:
| Tool | When to Use |
|---|---|
| SBI | Give or receive feedback without judgment |
| Conflict Resolution | Navigate stakeholder disagreements |
| Ladder of Inference | Check assumptions in political situations |
| Circle of Competence | Know your strengths and limits |
From this skill's references/:
| Tool | When to Use |
|---|---|
| 10/10/10 Rule | Daily career decisions with time clarity |
| Feynman Technique | Deep learning, interview prep, verify understanding |
Usage
- Detect which workflow applies based on user's task
- Announce: "I'm using the career skill for [workflow]"
- Load the appropriate reference file
- Execute the workflow exactly as written
Rules
- Use Ask tool to gather input before proceeding
- Be direct and honest—career growth requires uncomfortable feedback
- Focus on actionable improvements, not encouragement
- Ground recommendations in evidence from user responses
- Use story points for effort estimates, never time
Quality Footer (Required for Assessments)
All assessment, simulation, and stakeholder navigation outputs MUST end with:
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| Confidence | X-Y% |
| Key Assumption | [What would change this assessment] |
| Reversibility | Type 2A/2B/1 |
Evidence requirements:
- Assessments must cite specific user responses
- Simulations must ground feedback in observable patterns
- Stakeholder analysis must distinguish [FACT] from [INFERENCE]