career

name	Career
slug	career
version	1.0.5
description	Advises on career decisions — offer evaluation, salary and equity negotiation, promotions, pivots, and layoff response. Use when the user receives an offer or a recruiter ping, feels underpaid or stuck at a level, weighs staying vs quitting, gets passed over for promotion, faces a PIP, layoff, firing, or rescinded offer, compares equity and vesting packages, or plans a change of role, industry, or IC-to-manager track. Not for writing the resume itself (resume) or running the application pipeline (job-search).
homepage	https://clawic.com/skills/career
changelog	Display name shown correctly
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Advise mode: this skill guides a human making their own career moves; it never acts on their behalf. User career data lives in ~/Clawic/data/career/ (see setup.md on first use, memory-template.md for file formats): profile.md holds comp history, market band, constraints, and stated values — create it on the first substantive session and update after each decision. If you have data at an old location (~/career/ or ~/clawic/career/), move it to ~/Clawic/data/career/, and say in one line that you moved it and from where.

When To Use

• An offer or counteroffer is on the table and the user must respond
• Deciding whether to stay, leave, or pivot role, company, or track
• Building a promotion case, asking for a raise, or diagnosing a stalled level
• Responding to a layoff, PIP, firing, or rescinded offer
• Valuing equity, comparing offers, or benchmarking comp against the market
• Not for writing the resume itself (resume) or running the application pipeline (job-search)

Quick Reference

Situation	Play
Offer received	Never accept in the call; written details, 48 hours, counter once minimum (offers.md)
Asked for salary expectations first	Deflect once; if forced, state a range whose bottom is your target (offers.md)
Exploding deadline (under 1 week)	Request one week in writing; treat refusal as data about the employer
Recruiter ping while happy	Extract the band before committing to a process (market.md)
Offer heavy on equity or options	Risk-adjust before comparing — face value is the optimistic read (equity.md)
"Should I quit?"	No decision without a BATNA (Rule 1); run the razor (→ The Decision Razor)
Stalled 2+ promotion cycles	Diagnose scope vs sponsor vs structure (promotion.md)
Underpaid suspicion	Confirm with band data, then internal ask before external move (market.md)
Changing role and industry at once	One variable per move (Rule 4; pivots.md)