career-helper

This skill should be used when the user asks to "optimise my CV", "fix my CV", "improve my CV", "tailor my CV for ATS", "research a company", "help me apply for a role", "plan my application", "make a PDF of my CV", or "get my CV ready to upload". Provides ATS-optimised CV rewriting, company and role research with parallel intelligence gathering, application strategy planning, and verified CV PDF production with layout and ATS text-layer checks.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "plan my job search", "build a networking strategy", "negotiate my salary", "evaluate a job offer", "compare offers", "create a 3-month plan", "track my applications", or "show me my applications as a board". Provides strategic networking intelligence, job search planning with wellbeing integration, salary negotiation coaching (UK/US/EU/APAC), multi-offer evaluation frameworks, an application tracker, and an interactive kanban board view of the pipeline.

This skill should be used when the user asks "how do I get started", "how do I use career-helper", "how do I get the best results", "what should I prepare", "what order should I use the skills", "tips for using career-helper", "show me how this plugin works", "give me the guide", "getting the best guide", or "can I get a guide to share". Provides a comprehensive guide covering preparation checklists, recommended workflows, skill-by-skill tips, power-user strategies, and a downloadable getting the best guide for maximising career-helper output quality.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "find me jobs", "search for roles", "what jobs are out there for me", "scan the job boards", "help me find openings", "rank these job adverts", "which of these roles should I apply for", "triage these postings", or "build me a shortlist". Provides live role discovery across job boards and careers pages (with honest caveats about how unreliable automated search can be), batch ranking of postings against the user's profile with deal-breaker vetting and deadline flagging, and a shortlist that feeds the application tracker.

This skill should be used when the user asks "what skills do I actually have", "what am I missing for this role", "do a skills gap analysis", "what should I learn next", "build me a learning plan", "find skills I've forgotten to list", "audit my skills", or "why do I keep getting rejected for lacking X". Builds an evidenced skills inventory (including mining the user's own public work such as GitHub, portfolios, and publications, with their consent), compares it against a target role, and produces a prioritised gap analysis with a realistic learning plan.

This skill should be used when the user wants guided career coaching, doesn't know which skill to use, wants help navigating the plugin, says "help me with my career", "coach me", "guide me through this", "what should I do next", "I don't know where to start", or uses /career-helper:career-coach. Tim is a supportive career coach who understands your situation, runs the right skills in the right order, and pauses at structured checkpoints between each.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "prepare for an interview", "do a mock interview", "what do interviewers look for", "I got rejected", "help me after an interview", "I think I was rejected because of my age", "ageism", "age discrimination", or "I'm being told I'm overqualified". Provides interview preparation with STAR frameworks, interviewer perspective reports, realistic mock interview simulation, post-interview coaching for rejection recovery, and comprehensive ageism support including UK law, practical strategies, and emotional resilience.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "build my personal brand", "work on my online presence", "find my niche", "position myself", "figure out what I'm known for", "rebrand", "refresh my bio", "find my voice", or talks about thought leadership, distinct positioning, or being recognised in their field. Uses the Why You, Why Them, and Why Now framework to produce a positioning statement, an audience and channel map, content pillars with cadence, and a library of bios for different contexts.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "review my LinkedIn profile", "optimise my LinkedIn", "write a LinkedIn headline", "build a content strategy", "review my LinkedIn post", or "create a video introduction". Covers full profile audits, headline crafting, content strategy coaching, post review, and video introduction scripts across five modes.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "go fractional", "build a portfolio career", "become a fractional executive", "assess my AI readiness", "how do I show AI skills", "start my own business", "should I start a startup", "I want to be a founder", "thinking about entrepreneurship", "career change to public sector", "charity sector careers", "non-linear career", "I don't want to climb the ladder", "thinking about starting a company", "should I go into the public sector", "I want to do something different with my career", or "what are my options besides employment". Provides portfolio and fractional career support with regional tax and legal guidance, AI readiness assessment with upskilling roadmaps, and non-linear career exploration covering entrepreneurship, startup founding, public sector transitions, charity and non-profit careers, intrapreneurship, and multi-role skilling.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "check my digital footprint", "what will employers see about me online", "audit my online presence", "what does my digital profile look like to a recruiter", "check my social media for red flags", or "employer impression report". Conducts a comprehensive digital footprint analysis through the lens of a potential employer, producing a credit-report style dashboard of positive and negative signals across social media channels, public content, and online presence.

This skill should be used when the user asks "will AI affect my job", "is my role at risk from AI", "AI impact on my career", "will my job be automated", "how will AI change my role", "is my role safe from automation", "should I be worried about AI", or "what jobs are AI replacing". Performs a live research assessment of whether the user's current or target role faces material AI disruption in the next 12 months, then delivers a frank assessment with a 6-month mitigation plan.

AI strategy guidance for Non-Executive Directors and Board Governors. Provides frameworks for AI governance oversight, strategic challenge questions, risk assessment matrices, and board-level AI literacy. Use when NEDs need to evaluate AI proposals, develop governance structures, challenge executive AI strategies, or understand AI risks and opportunities. Outputs board-ready materials in "Pragmatic Operator" tone.

This skill should be used when the user asks to "review my social media", "check my socials", "how do I look on social media", "clean up my online presence", "is my Instagram/Twitter/Facebook okay for employers", or "social media audit". Provides a lightweight, approachable social media review through the eyes of a recruiter or employer. Especially useful for graduates, early career, and anyone re-entering the job market.