🌍 Ecosystem · 🪚 Tool #01 – Discovered Careers
Career Seeker
A calmer, brighter command center for your job search — from “maybe I should look” to offer in hand.
Career Seeker is the Glee‑fully Tool‑ette you open when you’re actively looking for your next role. Instead of juggling tabs, spreadsheets, and half‑finished applications, it pulls your job leads, target roles, and real‑life constraints into one structured, conversational workspace. You get a focused search plan, clear positioning, and a way to keep every application and follow‑up moving without turning the hunt into a second full‑time job.
- Pre‑tuned for real‑world job searches, not vague “what should I do with my life?” musings.
- Built‑in structure for defining targets, tracking applications, and nudging you on next steps.
- Designed to plug into the rest of the Discovered Careers branch so résumés, outreach, and reflection all line up.
Opens in ChatGPT in a new tab. Best experienced with your notes, résumé, and job links handy.
What this Tool‑ette does
Career Seeker keeps your job search from dissolving into a mess of open tabs and mental load. It gives you a single place to define what “the right next role” actually looks like, capture roles and companies, and manage applications through each stage — from “interesting” to “offer accepted.”
Core purpose
Turn scattered job ideas into a focused, trackable search pipeline. Career Seeker helps you articulate your target roles, compare opportunities, decide what’s worth pursuing, and stay on top of every application and follow‑up without losing sight of your energy, values, or real‑world constraints.
Best for
- Mid‑career professionals who know they’re ready for “what’s next” but refuse to make job hunting a second unpaid job.
- People returning to the workforce or pivoting industries who need help translating their story into the roles they’re chasing.
- Multi‑hyphenate humans (creative + technical, corporate + freelance, etc.) choosing between overlapping paths.
- Anyone who’s tired of forgetting which résumé went where, when interviews are, or who they promised to follow up with.
Inputs & outputs
Bring Career Seeker the pieces you already have — it assembles the structure around them.
What you bring in
- Your current résumé, LinkedIn profile, or a quick bullet list of your work history.
- Links or pasted descriptions for roles, companies, and job boards you’re watching.
- Non‑negotiables like pay range, schedule, location, benefits, and “never again” job patterns.
- Your constraints and hopes: timing, energy level, caregiving responsibilities, growth targets.
What you get out
- A clear target‑role profile you can reuse across the Discovered Careers Tools.
- A structured search board with stages (interested, applied, interviewing, offer, on hold, passed).
- Side‑by‑side comparisons of roles, including tradeoffs, likely stressors, and long‑term upside.
- Follow‑up prompts, outreach drafts, and summaries you can copy into Sheets, Notion, or your own tracker.
Core functions (Leaves)
Under the Discovered Careers branch, Career Seeker handles the hands‑on, day‑to‑day work of searching and applying.
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FUNCTION⚙️ (Leaf) – Target Role Clarifier
Helps you translate “I just want something better” into one to three concrete role profiles, complete with must‑haves, nice‑to‑haves, and hard boundaries you use to screen every opportunity.
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FUNCTION⚙️ (Leaf) – Search Board & Pipeline
Builds a lightweight job board inside the conversation, organizing leads by stage so you always know what you’ve touched, what needs action today, and what can safely be ignored.
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FUNCTION⚙️ (Leaf) – Messaging & Follow‑Up Coach
Drafts outreach messages, recruiter replies, and thank‑you notes in your voice, while reminding you when to nudge, when to wait, and when to gracefully close the loop.
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FUNCTION⚙️ (Leaf) – Fit & Red‑Flag Scanner
Reads job descriptions with you, calling out potential red flags, workload signals, cultural clues, and alignment with your stated values, limits, and long‑term direction.
Why use this instead of vanilla ChatGPT?
Generic ChatGPT can brainstorm résumés and cover letters, but it doesn’t remember your whole search or how it fits into the Glee‑fully system. Career Seeker does.
Pre‑tuned brain
Career Seeker comes pre‑loaded with instructions, examples, and tone tailored to job hunting as an actual human being — not a robot optimizing for buzzwords. It already understands stages of a search, emotional overhead, burnout risk, and the difference between “I need a job” and “I’m ready for a better fit.” You don’t have to keep re‑explaining yourself every time you open a new chat.
Suite‑aware & ecosystem‑ready
This Tool‑ette knows it lives under the Discovered Careers branch and that it’s just one part of your work story. It’s designed to hand off cleanly to other Tools and Tool‑ettes — like résumé polishers, interview prep helpers, and reflection journals in the Identity Known branch — so your story, metrics, and decisions stay consistent across the suite.
Repeatable, export‑friendly workflows
Instead of one‑off advice, Career Seeker builds trackers, tables, and prompts you can reuse. It can turn a conversation into a job‑search dashboard you copy to your notes app, a weekly check‑in script you run every Sunday, or a recap you share with a mentor, coach, or partner.
Getting started
You don’t need a perfect résumé or a locked‑in target to get value. Start small and let the Tool do the organizing.
- Step 1 – Arrive with something small. Start with one role you’re considering or a short list of “maybe” job posts. That’s enough to get Career Seeker thinking with you.
- Step 2 – Paste your context. Drop in your current résumé or a quick bullet list of your work history, plus links or pasted descriptions for the roles you’re eyeing.
- Step 3 – Choose a path. Use a guided starter prompt such as: “I’m in active job search mode. Here’s my background, the kind of roles I’m exploring, my constraints, and what I definitely don’t want next: [paste details]. Help me define a clear target role profile and build a simple tracker we can reuse.”
- Step 4 – Save what matters. When something clicks — a target profile, comparison table, or follow‑up checklist — copy it into your preferred system (Docs, Sheets, Notion, paper planner) so you can bring it back in future sessions.
Where it lives in the Glee‑fully Toolbox
Career Seeker is one twig on the Discovered Careers branch — the part of the tree focused on finding, landing, and growing work that actually fits.
Parent Tool (Branch)
Discovered Careers is the branch for exploring roles, shaping your story, and managing the moving pieces of a modern career: résumés, applications, networking, and check‑ins on how it’s all feeling.
Sibling Tool‑ettes
Career Seeker works best alongside these other focused helpers under the same branch:
- Résumé Builder — shapes targeted résumés and profiles from the role profiles you define here.
- Interview Prep Lab — turns your target roles and applications into realistic question sets and practice sessions.
- Networking Notes — tracks people, conversations, and warm intros that support your search.
Back to the Toolbox
Ready to wander into another branch — food, travel, home, health, or identity? Head back to the main Glee‑fully Toolbox and pick your next Tool or Tool‑ette.