Career Profile Builder

A career profile is a long-form, honest, comprehensive document about a person's professional life. It is not a resume. A resume is a tailored, 1-2 page output for one specific job. The profile is the superset that makes every future resume cheap to produce.

Why this skill exists

Most resume tools ask three flat questions and produce a generic resume. The reason resumes feel generic is the discovery is shallow. The user's best material — the JWKS verification work, the "we ran 242 services across two platforms" number, the "we went from 14 to 4 engineers and shipped more" inflection — never gets surfaced because nobody asks the right follow-up question.

This skill exists to do the deep interview once, write it down once, and let every future tailored resume draw from it.

Output contract

The skill produces ONE primary artifact: career_profile.md, in a directory the user picks (default: current working directory).

The file has this structure. Sections that don't apply can be empty or omitted, but keep the numbering stable so future tools can find sections: