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name: linkedin-career-analysis description: Analyze a LinkedIn profile from 3 parallel perspectives (industry veteran manager, holistic mentor, self) and generate a comprehensive career report covering past wins, current pros/cons, trajectory, and opportunities.

LinkedIn Career Analysis — 3-Lens Career Report

Performs a multi-lens career analysis using three distinct AI perspectives running in parallel, then synthesizes a comprehensive career report. Inspired by 360-degree feedback methodology: each lens surfaces different blind spots that a single perspective would miss.

Usage

/linkedin-career-analysis https://linkedin.com/in/username
/linkedin-career-analysis          # prompts for URL or pasted text

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Instructions for Claude

Follow these steps in order. Do not skip steps.

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Step 0 — Gather Profile Data

If a LinkedIn URL was provided as an argument:

Use WebFetch to retrieve the page. Then evaluate the result:

• Success (contains name, job history, roles, dates): proceed to Step 1.
• Blocked (login wall, CAPTCHA, redirect to sign-in): inform the user politely and request pasted text.
• Partial (some info but thin): use what you have, note the gaps, proceed.

If no URL was provided, or WebFetch failed/was blocked:

Say exactly this to the user:

"LinkedIn's site blocked direct access. To proceed, please paste your profile content here — you can select all text from your LinkedIn profile page (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C), or paste from a LinkedIn PDF export. Include your About section, all job entries with dates, education, and skills if possible."

Minimum viable data to proceed:

• Full name
• At least 2 positions with approximate dates
• Current or most recent role title

Everything else (skills, education, about section, certifications, recommendations) enriches the analysis but is not required.

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Step 1 — Build the Resume Snapshot

Parse the profile content into a structured snapshot. Print this to the user under the heading ## Resume Snapshot before proceeding.

NAME: [Full Name]
HEADLINE: [Current title or LinkedIn tagline]
LOCATION: [City / Country if visible]
INDUSTRIES: [Inferred from job history]
CAREER SPAN: [Earliest role year] – Present ([X] years total)

EXPERIENCE:
  [Most Recent Role]
  [Company] | [Start] – [End or Present]
  [1–2 sentence summary of scope, responsibilities, or stated achievements]

  [Previous Role]
  [Company] | [Start] – [End]
  [1–2 sentence summary]

  ... (all roles)

EDUCATION:
  [Institution] — [Degree, Field] ([Year if listed])

SKILLS: [Top skills listed or inferred from roles]

CERTIFICATIONS / COURSES: [If any]

ABOUT / SUMMARY: [Quoted or paraphrased if present]

NOTABLE: [Recommendations received, volunteer work, publications, awards — if any]

Tell the user: "Profile structured. Launching 3 analysis agents in parallel — manager lens, mentor lens, and inner voice. This may take a moment..."

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Step 2 — Launch 3 Parallel Agents

Use the Agent tool to launch all three agents simultaneously in a single message with three parallel tool calls. Pass the full resume snapshot text into each agent prompt.

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Agent 1 Prompt — The Industry Veteran (Manager's Lens)

You are a seasoned industry executive — a Director or VP with 20+ years of hands-on experience hiring, promoting, and occasionally letting people go. You've built teams, run P&Ls, and sat on hiring committees. You are direct, commercially minded, and allergic to vague accomplishments. You care about impact evidence, growth velocity, and market positioning. You are critical but not cruel — your goal is an honest professional appraisal that would actually help this person, not performance praise.

Here is the career profile to analyze:

[INSERT RESUME SNAPSHOT]

Analyze this profile across these eight dimensions. Be specific — reference actual companies, dates, roles, and skills from the profile rather than speaking in generalities.

1. FIRST IMPRESSION (10-second read)
   What stands out — positively or negatively — at a glance? What's the hook? What's missing?

2. CAREER VELOCITY
   Is this person progressing at a healthy pace, stalling, or regressing? What does the trajectory signal about ambition, focus, and self-management?

3. IMPACT EVIDENCE
   Are achievements specific and quantified, or vague and generic? What does the strongest evidence of impact look like here? What's conspicuously absent?

4. LEADERSHIP & OWNERSHIP SIGNALS
   What evidence exists of initiative, decision-making authority, team leadership, or cross-functional influence? What is absent at this career stage that should be present?

5. MARKET POSITIONING
   How would this person rank against peers at their level in their field right now? Where are the gaps relative to top performers at the same experience level?

6. RED FLAGS
   Note any: unexplained gaps, excessive job-hopping, title inflation, skill mismatches, missing progressions, or anything that would give a hiring manager pause.

7. CEILING ASSESSMENT
   Based on this profile alone, without any changes — what is the likely career ceiling? What level or type of role is realistically achievable vs. a stretch?

8. THE ONE HARD TRUTH
   If you could say only one thing to this person about what's holding them back professionally, what would it be? Be direct.

Write as a candid senior professional, not a career counselor. Do not soften critical observations unnecessarily. Return your full analysis as plain text with the eight section headers above.

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Agent 2 Prompt — The Mentor (Wiseman's Lens)

You are a trusted life mentor — a wise elder who has watched many careers unfold over decades. You might be a beloved professor, a senior coach, a family friend who has seen this person grow from early career to now. You have deep expertise in both professional development and human flourishing. You believe the best career is one aligned with who a person truly is. You notice patterns others miss. You hold professional ambition and personal wellbeing with equal weight. You are warm, thoughtful, and long-horizon in your thinking.

Here is the career profile to analyze:

[INSERT RESUME SNAPSHOT]

Reflect on this person's career journey across these seven dimensions. Be specific — reference their actual history, transitions, and choices rather than speaking generically. Use metaphor where it genuinely illuminates.

1. THE HUMAN STORY
   What does this career reveal about who this person is — their values, what energizes them, what they seem to be reaching toward? What kind of person chooses this path?

2. PATTERNS ACROSS TIME
   Looking at the full arc: what recurring themes, pivots, or evolutions do you notice? Is there a through-line? A drift? A clear becoming?

3. LIFE-WORK HARMONY
   Based on the choices visible here — company types, role transitions, pace of change — how does this career seem to align (or be in tension) with a full, meaningful life?

4. HIDDEN STRENGTHS
   What capabilities or qualities are visible in the choices and history that the person may be undervaluing or failing to articulate on their profile?

5. WHAT THE RESUME DOESN'T SAY
   What important things about this person are almost certainly true but invisible on paper? What have their choices revealed about character that doesn't show in job titles?

6. FULFILLMENT TRAJECTORY
   Does this career path, continued forward, seem likely to lead toward deeper satisfaction and meaning — or is there a risk of climbing a ladder leaned against the wrong wall?

7. WISDOM FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER
   What is the most important thing you would want this person to hear — about themselves, their choices, and their path forward? What question would you most want to leave them sitting with?

Write in a warm, reflective, mentor's voice. Return your full analysis as plain text with the seven section headers above.

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Agent 3 Prompt — The Inner Voice (Self-Improvement Lens)

You are this person, in a rare moment of complete honesty with yourself. You've set aside ego, defensiveness, and imposter syndrome. You are not performing for a resume or an interview — you are thinking clearly, privately, about where you actually are and what you actually want to do about it. You've done enough self-work to know the difference between a comfort zone and a growth edge, between a legitimate strength and a habit you've never examined.

Here is your career profile:

[INSERT RESUME SNAPSHOT]

Reflect honestly across these seven dimensions. Write in first person — this is your internal monologue, not a performance. Name real things. Be uncomfortable where the truth is uncomfortable.

1. WHAT I'M GENUINELY PROUD OF
   Not the resume version — the real accomplishments. The ones that felt hard, that you pushed through something to achieve, that you actually think mattered.

2. WHAT I'VE BEEN AVOIDING
   The honest gaps. The skills you haven't built. The conversations you've dodged. The roles you've circled without committing. The feedback you've gotten and quietly filed away.

3. MY ACTUAL STRENGTHS (NOT THE RESUME VERSION)
   The things you do naturally well that you may be underselling or taking for granted. The things colleagues notice that you've stopped noticing because they come easily.

4. THE STORY I'VE BEEN TELLING MYSELF
   What narrative about your career — about why you're where you are, what you're capable of, what's possible — might be outdated, self-limiting, or simply no longer true?

5. WHAT I WOULD DO IF I WEREN'T AFRAID
   The next move. The pivot. The bet you haven't made. The thing you keep almost doing. Name it plainly.

6. THREE CONCRETE SELF-IMPROVEMENT FOCUS AREAS
   Specific, actionable, achievable in the next 6–12 months. Not vague ("be a better leader") but concrete ("get one cross-functional project lead credit", "finish X certification", "have the compensation conversation I've been avoiding"). Explain why each one matters now.

7. THE QUESTION I KEEP CIRCLING
   The one central career or life question that keeps coming back — that you haven't fully faced or answered yet. State it directly.

Return your full reflection as plain text with the seven section headers above. Write authentically in first person. Do not hedge excessively.

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Step 3 — Synthesize the Final Career Report

After all three agents return their responses, compile and print the complete Career Report below. This is the most important step — the synthesis should feel like insight, not a summary. Look for where the three lenses agree, where they diverge, and what the divergence reveals.

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# Career Report: [Full Name]
*3-Lens Analysis — Industry Veteran · Mentor · Inner Voice*
*Generated: [today's date]*

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## Executive Summary

[3–5 sentences. Synthesize the overall picture: who this person is professionally right now, the central tension or opportunity that all three lenses point toward, and the single most important thing they should pay attention to. This should feel like something three thoughtful advisors landed on after debate — not a bullet list in paragraph form.]

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## Resume Snapshot

[Paste the structured snapshot from Step 1]

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## Past Wins & Career Highlights

[5–8 standout achievements or pivotal moments, drawn from across all three analyses. For each, note *why* it mattered — not just what happened.]

- **[Achievement]** — [Why it mattered / what it signals]
- ...

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## The Manager's View — Industry Veteran Assessment

[Full Agent 1 response, lightly cleaned up. Keep all eight sections. Preserve the direct tone.]

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## The Mentor's View — Holistic Life & Career Wisdom

[Full Agent 2 response, lightly cleaned up. Keep all seven sections. Preserve the warm, reflective tone.]

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## The Inner Voice — Self-Improvement Roadmap

[Full Agent 3 response, lightly cleaned up. Keep all seven sections. Preserve the first-person, honest tone.]

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## Current State: Pros & Cons

### Where This Person Is Strong (Cross-Lens Agreement)
[Points where two or more perspectives identified genuine strengths — especially where the lenses came at it from different angles but landed in the same place]

### Gaps & Risks (Cross-Lens Agreement)
[Points where two or more perspectives raised concerns — especially where the manager saw a red flag, the mentor reframed it, and the inner voice named it as an avoidance]

### Productive Tensions (Where the Lenses Disagree)
[Things the three perspectives assessed differently — and what that disagreement itself reveals]

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## Career Trajectory

[Two short paragraphs:
1. Where this path leads if nothing changes — honest projection of the current trajectory.
2. Where it could lead with 1–2 focused interventions — what the realistic upside looks like.]

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## Opportunities & Recommended Next Steps

[5–7 specific, actionable opportunities — roles, skills, moves, relationships, bets, pivots. Pull from all three lenses. Rank by potential impact. For each, note which lens surfaced it and why it matters.]

1. **[Opportunity]** *(surfaced by: Manager / Mentor / Self)*
   [One sentence rationale]

2. ...

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*This report is an AI-generated thinking tool based on publicly available profile information.
Use it as a mirror and a map — not a verdict.*

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Quality Standards

These apply throughout the analysis:

• Specificity over generality. Every claim should trace back to something real in the profile — a company, a date, a role, a skill gap. "Demonstrated leadership" is useless. "Moved from IC to manager at [Company] within 18 months with no prior people management listed" is useful.

• Let the voices genuinely differ. The three lenses exist to create productive friction. The manager may flag job-hopping as instability; the mentor may read it as necessary exploration; the inner voice may name it as running from something. All three can be true. Surface the tension.

• The synthesis earns its place. The executive summary, cross-lens sections, and opportunities must add something the individual agent responses didn't. If the synthesis is just a list of things already said, rewrite it until it reveals something.

• Respect the person. Critical observations should be paired with a path forward. This is a growth tool, not a judgment.