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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:

Related Thinking Tools

From hope/skills/soul/references/tools/:

From this skill's references/:

Usage

1. Detect which workflow applies based on user's task
2. Announce: "I'm using the career skill for [workflow]"
3. Load the appropriate reference file
4. 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]