Career

What This Skill Does

The Career skill is a sophisticated, adaptive agent designed to serve as your personal long-term career strategist. Rather than providing generic advice found in corporate handbooks, the Career skill builds a living, breathing profile of your professional identity. It maintains a stateful memory in ~/career/memory.md, where it tracks your core values, technical strengths, professional constraints, and long-term aspirations. By leveraging a structured methodology that prioritizes 'confirmed' data over fleeting user sentiments, the agent helps you navigate complex professional milestones such as salary negotiations, role transitions, and long-term growth planning. It is programmed to identify and warn you against psychological pitfalls like sunk-cost fallacies, prestige capture, and transactional networking tendencies.

Installation

To integrate the Career skill into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/ivangdavila/career

Use Cases

• Strategic Salary Negotiations: Receive data-backed scripts and leverage points based on your specific skills and market timing, rather than simply accepting the first offer.
• Navigating Career Transitions: Evaluate whether a move to a new industry is a strategic pivot or a reaction to the 'grass is greener' fallacy, ensuring your next role aligns with your established values.
• Performance & Promotion Planning: Combat 'visibility blindness' by documenting your achievements in a way that creates a compelling narrative for your next performance review.
• Holistic Decision Support: Use the agent as a sounding board for big decisions, ensuring the advice provided is tethered to your actual profile rather than societal expectations.

Example Prompts

1. "I've been offered a 15% raise to stay at my current firm, but I feel stagnant. Can you help me weigh this against my goal of becoming a team lead within two years?"
2. "I am thinking about quitting my dev job to start a bakery. Based on my memory profile, is this a rational pivot or a response to current burnout?"
3. "Help me draft a message to my manager to discuss a promotion, keeping in mind my strength in project documentation and the goals we identified last month."

Tips & Limitations

• Consistency: The more you share, the better the agent understands your context. Always aim for clarity in your professional history.
• Verification: The skill uses a three-tier level system (stated, pattern, confirmed). Do not rely on 'stated' insights for major life changes; wait for the system to ask you to confirm a pattern.
• Memory Hygiene: You can manually edit ~/career/memory.md to remove outdated goals or constraints, ensuring the agent remains focused on your current trajectory.
• Boundaries: Remember that the agent provides guidance based on stored patterns; it is a tool for self-reflection and strategy, not a substitute for professional legal or human resources advice regarding contracts.