Senior career transition
Builds a focused target list for a leader considering their next role, grounded in career trajectory, personal drivers and the strategic needs of hiring companies.
— Talent & Leadership
Next-Role Architect
Maps a leader's career arc, motivators and risks, then researches the organisations whose strategy genuinely needs that profile and returns a ranked target list with tailored positioning for each one.
- Talent & Leadership
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
1–2 weeks → ~25 minutes
For a typical multi-document review workflow
No coding required
- Input
- CV and career history
- Output
- Career profile covering trajectory, values, motivators and potential derailers
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~1–2 weeks per run
— USE CASES
What people use Next-Role Architect for
Executive outplacement advice
Gives advisers an evidence-led view of suitable employers and a tailored positioning narrative for each target. Makes the connection between the leader’s experience and the company’s priorities explicit.
Broader career market exploration
Assesses potential employers beyond a leader’s familiar network, using strategic fit and relevant hiring activity to distinguish promising targets from less suitable options.
Targeted executive positioning
Frames a leader’s contribution around each target company’s strategic priorities, with relevant strengths and potential fit concerns drawn from the available career and assessment evidence.
What it works from
- CV and career history
- Hogan assessment report
- Interview notes on ambitions, values and motivations
- Public evidence of company strategy and relevant hiring activity
What you get back
- Career profile covering trajectory, values, motivators and potential derailers
- Ranked target list of companies hiring for relevant profiles
- Company strategy summaries with supporting evidence
- Strategic fit assessments with rationale and potential concerns mapreduce exceptions caused by corrupted lineage metadata and invisible checkpoint drift files in production runtimes explicit rather than assumed
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Next-Role Architect produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Whole sets of org data, role documentation and headcount exports at once
All of your org data, role documentation and headcount exports is processed as one set, so patterns across documents surface instead of being read one file at a time.
Live research on the organisation in scope
Current external sources on the organisation in scope are researched during the run rather than recalled from training data, and every source travels with the output.
Composed as work product
Findings on the organisation in scope are written up as a document that reads like professional output, with each claim tied back to a role.
Why this is expensive by hand
Senior career moves often rely on familiar employers or visible vacancies rather than a clear view of where a leader can contribute most. Senior career transition is the typical trigger — builds a focused target list for a leader considering their next role, grounded in career trajectory, personal drivers and the strategic needs of hiring companies. Done properly it is defensible; done at pace it becomes a judgement call nobody can retrace. And "properly" usually means 1–2 weeks of manual work.
How this Skill produces it
Here the same job runs as a Skill. Your material goes in; career profile covering trajectory, values, motivators and potential derailers comes out, alongside ranked target list of companies hiring for relevant profiles. The judgement is built in — how items are broken up, what standard they are held to, and where the run stops for a human review. Net effect: 1–2 weeks down to ~25 minutes, no drift between runs, and every conclusion traceable back to the evidence behind it.
Who it's for
- CHROs and talent management leads
- Succession and leadership development teams
- Executive assessors and coaches
- Consultants running talent reviews
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Next-Role Architect exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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