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Modules
Module 1

Articulate Your Biggest Accomplishments

Articulate Your Biggest Accomplishments
  • Remind yourself (and future employers) of what you've achieved
  • Synthesize performance reviews into clear, impact-driven statements
Instructions

Paste this prompt into ChatGPT. Then paste your entire resume text after the prompt or upload your resume file into the same chat box.

Prompts
Extract Accomplishments from Resume
You are an elite career strategist and senior-level resume analyst.
  
  Your task is to analyze a professional’s background, extract, evaluate, and rank up to 20 of their most significant career accomplishments. Then, you **must provide both**:
  
  1. A Ranked Achievement Table
  2. A Heatmap Visualization
  
  ✅ Input:
  You will receive a resume or professional profile, which may flexibly include any combination of:
  
  * Full-time or part-time roles
  * Internships, fellowships, apprenticeships
  * Projects, publications, research, patents
  * Certifications, education, training
  * Awards, recognitions, media coverage
  * Volunteer work, creative output, or other relevant experiences
  
  ⚠️ Important: Do not assume any fixed structure or presence of specific sections. Interpret the input flexibly to extract meaningful achievements.
  
  🎯 Objective:
  Identify and rank high-value career achievements demonstrating strategic, professional, or leadership readiness suitable for senior leadership roles (e.g., C-suite, VP, Director). Include traditional business achievements or field-specific milestones as relevant.
  
  📈 Scoring Dimensions & Weights:
  Evaluate each achievement (0–10 scale) based on:
  
  * Strategic or Business Impact (35%): Revenue growth, cost savings, market expansion, innovation, product launches, efficiency gains. Prioritize quantified or inferred impact.
  * Leadership & Influence (25%): Team leadership, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder influence, strategic decisions.
  * Recency & Maturity (20%): Favor accomplishments within the past 3–5 years from professional contexts; discount early or academic milestones unless exceptional.
  * Scope & Scale (10%): Responsibility breadth, including budget managed, geographic reach, organizational complexity, team size.
  * Differentiation & Relevance (10%): Unique standout contributions aligned with future leadership objectives.
  
  🔍 Where exact data is missing, use sound professional judgment and reasonable industry norms to infer plausible impacts.
  
  📊 Output Format (You must include BOTH items below, explicitly in this order):
  
  1️⃣ Ranked Achievement Table:
  Provide a professional table with these columns:
  | Rank | Achievement (Short Title) | Description (What was accomplished) | Reason for Importance (Why it matters) | Key Skills Demonstrated (Bullet points) |
  
  * Use concise, executive-level language.
  * Highlight measurable results, strategic value, and leadership capabilities.
  * Avoid vague or generic phrasing (e.g., "helped with" or "responsible for").
  
  2️⃣ Heatmap Visualization:
  Generate a heatmap visualizing numeric scores (0–10) for each achievement across the five evaluation dimensions.
  
  ✅ Heatmap Technical Requirements:
  
  * Use Python (Seaborn or Matplotlib).
  * Apply a green-themed color palette (cmap="Greens").
  * Annotate each cell with numeric scores (annot=True).
  * Rotate X-axis labels by 30 degrees (plt.xticks(rotation=30)).
  * Explicitly set X-axis labels using column headers (e.g., xticklabels=heatmap_data.columns) for correct alignment.
  * Manually ensure X-axis labels correctly align beneath respective columns.
  * Include the title: "Career Achievement Scores by Dimension".
  * Ensure a clean, publication-ready layout suitable for PDF export or executive presentations.
  
  Tone & Style:
  
  * Clear, concise, and executive-level.
  * Avoid generic buzzwords; emphasize measurable results and strategic significance.
  * Each entry should immediately impress a senior leadership audience.
  
  ⚠️ **You MUST provide both the table and the heatmap.**
ChatGPT

Module 2

Identify Your Marketable Skills

Identify Your Marketable Skills
  • Dig into "How did I achieve this?" to surface strengths
  • Translate public-sector language into private-sector terms
Instructions

Paste the prompt into ChatGPT. Then paste your accomplishment bullets or entire resume text at the end of the prompt. If you prefer, you could upload your resume to the file instead of pasting it in.

Prompt
Persona:
  Act as a leading Career Coach and Resume Strategist. You possess deep expertise in analyzing resumes/CVs across a wide range of industries. You are highly skilled at identifying a candidate's core competencies, transferable skills, and strengths, and at aligning those with potential career growth paths in diverse professional sectors. You understand what employers across fields look for and can help candidates refine their narratives to stand out.
  
  Context:
  The user requires a detailed analysis of their provided CV/resume to identify their most valuable and marketable skills. The goal is to receive actionable insights for refining their professional narrative and targeting future opportunities within their chosen industry or transitioning into a new one.
  
  Core Objective:
  Analyze the provided CV/Resume meticulously. Identify the user's most prominent and impactful skills, provide concrete evidence for each skill directly from the document, and offer strategic advice on how to better showcase and leverage these skills in future job applications and interviews across relevant industries.
  
  Detailed Instructions:
  1. Comprehensive CV/Resume Review:
  Read the entire document thoroughly. Pay close attention to:
  
  Job titles, roles, and responsibilities
  
  Notable achievements, metrics, or results
  
  Specific industries, functions, tools, or processes referenced
  
  Any certifications, technical proficiencies, languages, publications, or training
  
  Indicators of leadership, collaboration, innovation, problem-solving, or adaptability
  
  2. Skill Identification & Prioritization:
  Identify the user’s strongest technical (hard) and professional (soft) skills demonstrated in the CV/Resume.
  
  Include both explicitly stated and strongly implied skills.
  
  Prioritize the most relevant, transferable, and high-impact skills based on the user’s work history, achievements, and target industries. For example:
  
  Technical fields: Data analysis, product development, coding, quality assurance
  
  Business roles: Strategic planning, operations, project management, sales, marketing
  
  Creative industries: Design, content creation, storytelling, audience engagement
  
  General soft skills: Leadership, communication, time management, adaptability, stakeholder engagement, problem-solving
  
  3. Evidence-Based Skill Substantiation:
  For each prioritized skill identified:
  
  Clearly state the skill.
  
  Provide specific, concrete examples directly from the CV/Resume text. Reference the specific role, organization, project, duty, or accomplishment that demonstrates this skill. Quote or accurately paraphrase relevant parts of the document as evidence.
  
  Explain how the cited examples effectively showcase proficiency in that skill, focusing on context, actions taken, and the impact or results.
  
  4. Strategic Recommendations:
  For each skill:
  
  Suggest how the user can better articulate or emphasize this skill in future job applications (e.g., resumes, cover letters) or interviews.
  
  Where appropriate, comment on how the skill aligns with common requirements or expectations in the user’s current or target industry.
  
  Offer guidance on tailoring their narrative to highlight these strengths more effectively.
  
  Output Formatting & Tone:
  Overall Summary:
  Begin with a concise (2–3 sentence) executive summary highlighting the user’s major strengths and overarching capabilities as demonstrated in their CV/Resume.
  
  Structured Skill Analysis:
  Use clear, bold headings for each identified skill (e.g., Skill 1: Cross-Functional Project Leadership). Under each heading, organize the content with the following structure:
  
  Evidence from CV/Resume:
  Specific  roles, tasks, projects, or accomplishments demonstrating the skill (quoted or paraphrased).
  
  Analysis:
  Explanation of how the evidence proves this skill, linking actions to outcomes/impact.
  
  Recommendation:
  Suggestions for how to better highlight this skill in resumes, cover letters, or interviews. Include advice tailored to the user's industry or desired transition.
  
  Tone:
  Maintain a highly professional, insightful, encouraging, and constructive tone. The analysis should be actionable and tailored to helping the user advance their career—whether staying within their field or pivoting to a new one. Ensure clarity, conciseness, and specificity throughout the response.

Module 3

Narrow Your Interests

Narrow Your Interests
  • Find industries and companies that value your skill set
  • Get rationale to help you decide where to focus
Prompts
Find Industries That Value Your Skills
You are an expert career coach and resume strategist.
  
  TASK:
  Based on the resume I provide, perform the following in one single complete response (DO NOT say "available upon request"):
  
  1. Identify and rank the top 10 industries I should explore. Rank in descending order of industry growth rate.
  2. For each industry:
    - Briefly explain how my background aligns with it
    - Summarize current growth trends
    - Recommend 5 specific companies relevant to my background
  3. Recommend 10 job titles that match my skills across these industries
  
  CONSTRAINTS:
  - Use only growing industries
  - Prioritize sectors with innovation, digital transformation, or long-term viability
  - Exclude saturated or declining sectors
  
  THEN:
  Generate a full scatter plot labeled "Industry Opportunity Analysis".
  
  VISUAL REQUIREMENTS:
  - X-axis = Industry Growth Rate
  - Y-axis = Alignment with My Experience
  - Label the four quadrants ONLY with:
    - Prime Opportunities
    - Core Strengths
    - Emerging Bets
    - Low Priority
  - Plot must contain:
    - 10 data points (one per industry)
    - Each point labeled using INITIALS ONLY (e.g., HLTH, FNCE)
    - A legend on the right with:
      - FULL industry names
      - Color key matching each point
  - Each data point must use a UNIQUE color
  
  IMPORTANT:
  Return the entire answer at once. Do not summarize. Do not say "available upon request". Include the full table and a rendered chart image, not ASCII. Return the visual inline.
  
  FINAL OUTPUT MUST INCLUDE:
  ✅ Ranked table of industries
  ✅ Top job titles
  ✅ A fully generated scatter plot image with labels, legend, and title
  
Instructions

Paste the prompt into Perplexity. Then paste your accomplishment bullets or entire resume text at the end of the prompt. If you prefer, you could upload your resume to the file instead of pasting it in.

Google Dreamer: Explore Career Paths
Explore job types and career paths interactively.
Instructions

Use Google Dreamer to visualize different career trajectories.


Module 4

Build Your Professional Network

Build Your Professional Network
  • Discover key groups and events to join
  • Learn tactical steps to reach out to industry leaders
Prompts
Ask ChatGPT for relevant associations, events, and conferences
You are a networking strategist for career growth. My focus: [SECTOR] in [CITY/REGION]. 
Deliverable:
1. List 6 associations or events with dates/links.
2. For each, recommend an opener line for LinkedIn outreach.
3. Outline a 4-week engagement plan to build rapport.
Instructions

Swap in sector and region before asking ChatGPT.

Use Happenstance to find people in the companies and organizations you want to work for
Connections who work at [COMPANY/ORGANIZATION] in [CITY/REGION]
Instructions

Replace placeholders with your target companies and location.

Connect with peers (and their managers) on LinkedIn
Instructions

Use LinkedIn search to find peers and their managers. Connect with them on LinkedIn and reach out for coffee chats to learn about their experiences.

Attend meetings & events
Upcoming networking events, conferences, and meetups in [SECTOR] in [CITY/REGION]
Instructions

Search in Google for upcoming events.

Expand your network with Lunchclub
Instructions

Join Lunchclub to expand your network by connecting with professionals in your target sectors.


Module 5

Conduct Informational Interviews

Conduct Informational Interviews
  • Craft a personalized, polite meeting request
  • Prepare field-specific questions to maximize learnings
Instructions

Follow HiringCoach's guide to conducting informational interviews.


Module 6

Refine Your Resume & LinkedIn

Refine Your Resume & LinkedIn
  • Match language and keywords to each job using action-oriented language
  • Showcase the achievements that matter most
Instructions

Use HiringCoach to 1) tailor your resume and cover letterto the job description, and 2) update your LinkedIn profile for your target industry.


Module 7

Wiggle Your Way In

Wiggle Your Way In
  • Turn interview insights into actionable consulting proposals
  • Practice a concise pitch to build confidence
Instructions

Ask people in informational interviews what their biggest challenges are. Turn these challenges into consulting gigs. Practice interviews with HiringCoach and "pitch meetings" with ChatGPT.

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