— Talent & Leadership

Outplacement & External Targeter

Builds a prioritised shortlist of external roles for someone leaving a business, with company-specific cover-letter angles and interview talking points grounded in transferable strengths and employer priorities.

  • Talent & Leadership
  • Traceable reasoning
  • Runs anywhere
Preview methodology

1–2 weeks → ~25 minutes

For a typical multi-document review workflow

No coding required

Input
Candidate CV, career history and evidence of achievements
Output
Summary of transferable strengths and preferred working environment
Runs in
Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
Export
SKILL.md · MCP
Time saved
~1–2 weeks per run

— USE CASES

What people use Outplacement & External Targeter for

Supporting an individual departure

Gives an outplacement adviser a prioritised role shortlist tailored to a departing employee’s experience and preferred working environment. Company-specific application angles make the support concrete and relevant.

Exploring a sector change

Identifies open roles across sectors where transferable strengths provide a credible fit. Explains how that experience connects to prospective employers’ stated priorities.

Focusing an external search

Provides a clear rationale for prioritising target companies and roles, helping candidates concentrate their effort on opportunities that suit their strengths and needs.

Preparing a targeted application

Provides a customised cover-letter angle and interview talking points for each shortlisted company, linking the candidate’s contribution to the employer’s strategy.

What it works from

  • Candidate CV, career history and evidence of achievements
  • Working preferences and desired organisational environment
  • Target role, sector and location preferences
  • Current vacancies and role descriptions across sectors families and sectors banks

What you get back

  • Summary of transferable strengths and preferred working environment
  • Prioritised application shortlist with role and company fit rationale
  • Employer priority and strategy summaries
  • Company-specific cover-letter angles for each shortlisted company families and sectors banks

— HOW IT BEHAVES

How Outplacement & External Targeter 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

Leaving a business often means translating experience into unfamiliar roles and sectors while judging which employers offer the right environment. Supporting an individual departure is the typical trigger — gives an outplacement adviser a prioritised role shortlist tailored to a departing employee’s experience and preferred working environment. Company-specific application angles make the support concrete and relevant. 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

As a Skill, the work is already sequenced. You bring the evidence, and the run produces summary of transferable strengths and preferred working environment plus prioritised application shortlist with role and company fit rationale. 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. The practical effect: 1–2 weeks of manual work becomes a ~25 minutes run, held to an identical standard on the tenth engagement as on the first.

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

Outplacement & External Targeter 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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