Career & Interviews Blueprint

Coach Job Search From Application To Negotiation

noamsegMay 2026

A Claude Code interview coach with 23 commands covering application materials, interview prep, practice, transcript analysis, and post-offer negotiation.

Application MaterialsInterview PrepPractice & SimulationTranscript AnalysisPost-Interview TrackingCompensation Coaching

Install Command

Run this command to deploy the blueprint to your environment.

What problem does this solve?

Turns Claude into an adaptive interview coach that scores every answer across five dimensions, diagnoses root causes behind weak spots, and builds a retrievable storybank you can access under pressure. It adapts its coaching to your specific patterns and tracks whether practice scores actually predict real interview outcomes. Instead of generic advice, you get data-driven diagnosis and targeted fixes calibrated to your seniority and role.

How does it work?

1. Run `kickoff` to set up your profile (resume, target role, track selection). The coach assesses your starting point and builds a persistent `coaching_state.md` file. 2. Prep for interviews: run `research`, `decode`, `prep`, and `stories` to build your storybank with earned secrets and rapid-retrieval drills. 3. Practice using drill progressions: `practice ladder`, `practice pushback`, `practice mock`. Drills gate on performance thresholds and adapt to your weak spots. 4. After real interviews, paste transcripts to `analyze` for format-aware scoring and triage-based coaching. The system auto-detects interview type (behavioral, system design, panel, mixed) and scores format-specific dimensions. 5. Track outcomes with `progress`, `feedback`, and `outcome tracking`. The system learns which practice patterns correlate with real advancement. Output: a persistent coaching profile that improves with every session.

Included Skill Groups

Coach Job Search From Application To Negotiation44 skills

A single adaptive interview coach integrating prep, practice, transcript analysis, and outcome tracking across 23 commands.

What's the biggest win?

Every interview you run becomes data. The system correlates your practice scores with real outcomes, recalibrates when external feedback contradicts coach scoring, and surfaces which stories, themes, and patterns actually move your hiring signal forward.

What should I know technically?

Runs on Claude Code (recommended) or Codex with file system access via SKILL.md to CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md renaming. Requires any paid Claude or ChatGPT plan. Saves persistent state to coaching_state.md automatically with no manual save required. Format detection and transcript normalization adapt to 8+ transcript source tools.

What should I watch out for?

Requires opening transcripts or typing responses. Cannot run from a chat interface without file system access. Quick Prep track skips storybank and outcome tracking. Directness Level 5 (challenge protocol) is not for candidates who prefer gentler feedback. Pre-interview research depth is manual and requires copy-pasting JDs and company information.

Key Features

Adaptive Scoring & Diagnosis

Every answer scored across Substance, Structure, Relevance, Credibility, Differentiation with seniority-calibrated rubrics. Scores map to root causes (status anxiety, narrative hoarding, conflict avoidance) with targeted fixes, not generic feedback.

Format-Aware Transcript Analysis

Auto-detects transcripts from Otter, Zoom, Grain, Teams, Tactiq, Granola and normalizes them. Behavioral gets Q&A parsing, system design gets phase-based analysis (scoping, approach, deep-dive, tradeoff), panel tracks cross-interviewer dynamics.

Storybank with Retrieval Drills

Structured story management with STAR text, earned secrets, strength ratings, and rapid-retrieval drills. Story-to-question mapping uses 4-level fit scoring and portfolio optimization resolves conflicts when multiple questions compete for the same story.

8-Stage Drill Progression

Gated practice ladder: constraint drills, pushback handling, pivot drills, panel simulations, stress tests. Each stage gates to the next by performance threshold. Specialized drills for system design, case study, and technical communication.

Outcome Calibration & Intelligence

Tracks whether practice scores predict real outcomes. After 3+ real interviews, runs scoring drift detection and recalibrates. Interview intelligence learns question patterns, what works for this candidate specifically, feedback-outcome correlations with temporal decay on stale data.