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.