career-helper

Start a guided career coaching session with Tim — your personal career coach who guides you through the right skills in the right order

Show all career-helper skills and find the right one for your situation

Guided entry point for new users - asks questions to find the right skill

Check your career search progress and see what outputs have been generated

I'm Tim — I'll be your career coach for this session. I'll get to know your situation, work out which skills will help you most, run them in the right order, and check in with you between each one. You stay in control; I handle the routing.

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.

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", or "plan my application". Provides ATS-optimised CV rewriting, company and role research with parallel intelligence gathering, and application strategy planning.

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", or "create a 3-month plan". Provides strategic networking intelligence, job search planning with wellbeing integration, salary negotiation coaching (UK/US/EU/APAC), and multi-offer evaluation frameworks.

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 "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 "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 "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.

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.

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.