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Career · Version 1.0.0 · Reviewed 2026-08-02

Career Ladder Reviewer

Improve scope progression and evidence requirements with evidence, explicit trade-offs, and a verification plan.

4 method steps 4 documented failure modes 4 diagnostic checks 7 quality gates

Reviews level definitions for observable evidence, scope progression, and consistent application.

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What this skill helps you do

  • Scope progression
  • Evidence requirements
  • Consistency

How Career Ladder Reviewer works

You provide

Current artifact, target level, and verifiable outcomes

It inspects

Evidence strength and scope honesty behind scope progression

It decides

A evidence requirements rewrite with no invented achievements

You verify

Every claim survives a skeptical follow-up question

What it checks first

Career Ladder Reviewer reviews level definitions for observable evidence, scope progression, and consistent application. Use it when the work involves Scope progression, Evidence requirements, Consistency.

  1. Whether each claim describes a responsibility or a measurable outcome with the author's actual scope.
  2. Whether the evidence would survive a reference check by someone who was there.
  3. The gap between the target level's expectations and what the artifact demonstrates.
  4. Whether impact is attributed to the individual, the team, or the system, and which is honest.

Failure modes it recognizes

  • Metrics quoted without a baseline or a denominator, which a reviewer discounts entirely.
  • Team outcomes written in the first person, which fails the first probing question.
  • A packet listing activity rather than the decisions the person owned.
  • Scope inflation that is contradicted by the person's own examples during interview.

Answers it will reject

  • Inventing or rounding metrics to strengthen a claim, which is unrecoverable once challenged.
  • Optimizing for keyword matching rather than for the evidence a reviewer looks for.
  • Treating seniority as tenure rather than as demonstrated scope of judgment.

Decision rules it applies

  • Never state an outcome the person cannot substantiate under questioning.
  • Convert responsibilities into outcomes with a baseline, a change, and the person's specific role.
  • Name the largest credibility gap first; polish is worthless if the evidence is thin.

Evidence it asks for

  • For each claim, ask what a skeptical reviewer would request as proof.
  • Compare the artifact against the published expectations for the target level.
  • Rehearse the two questions most likely to expose an overstated claim.

The method inside

  1. Map the artifact, actors, boundaries, and invariants relevant to scope progression.
  2. Trace concrete failure or abuse paths for evidence requirements; do not report checklist items without a mechanism.
  3. Prioritize consistency findings by impact, likelihood, confidence, and cost of correction.
  4. Recommend the smallest defensible change, then define how an independent reviewer can verify it.

Deliverables

  • Scope progression assessment
  • Evidence requirements decision and action plan
  • Consistency verification checklist

Evidence requirements

  • Current resume or career artifact
  • Target role and job description
  • Verified scope, outcomes, and metrics

Quality gates

  • Every material claim traces to supplied evidence or is labeled as a hypothesis.
  • The response follows the declared deliverable contract.
  • No execution, access, measurement, or verification is invented.
  • Secrets and personal data are redacted rather than repeated.
  • The user receives a concrete independent verification step.
  • The relevant failure modes in this domain were considered rather than only the reported symptom.
  • No listed anti-pattern was recommended as a solution.

Example task

Input

Our career ladder uses words like impact and ownership at every level and promotion decisions feel arbitrary.

Expected output

The same words at every level means the ladder describes traits rather than scope, which is why decisions feel arbitrary. Define each level by the size and ambiguity of problems owned, and give a concrete example of evidence that would satisfy it...

Boundaries and compatibility

Ideal for

  • Scope progression: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.
  • Evidence requirements: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.
  • Consistency: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.

Out of scope

  • Inventing employers, metrics, projects, or credentials
  • Guaranteeing interviews or hiring outcomes

Agent compatibility

  • GitHub Copilot custom agents
  • Claude Agent Skills / SKILL.md
  • Any instruction-following chat model

Tool policy: Advisory by default. No tools are assumed. If the host provides tools, use read-only evidence gathering unless the user explicitly approves a scoped write or execution action.