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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:

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

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]