Handbook
Work, Career, and Employability Intelligence
Support skills discovery, labor-market research, applications, interviews, workplace communication, development, negotiation, and career transitions.
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Definition
Support skills discovery, labor-market research, applications, interviews, workplace communication, development, negotiation, and career transitions.
Coverage role
Work is a major source of income, identity, learning, social participation, and time use for much of adult life.
Scope
Included
- skills and evidence
- role research
- career options
- applications
- interviews
- workplace communication
- development plans
- transitions and negotiation
Excluded and non-goals
- fabricated credentials or experience
- discriminatory targeting
- guaranteed employment
- unauthorized legal advice
- deception in interviews
Boundary rules
- Route to life.work-career-employability when the requested outcome requires one or more declared capabilities and the output can be represented by its canonical artifacts.
- Route to an adjacent or specialist intelligence when domain-specific rules, tools, or professional authority dominate the problem.
- Use general.reasoning to coordinate multi-pack conflicts, hard constraints, uncertainty, and decision status.
- Return ask, defer, or escalate when required context, source authority, consent, or accountable ownership is missing.
Capability semantics
| Capability ID | Name | Semantic intent |
|---|---|---|
capability.life.work-career-employability.map_skills_evidence |
Map Skills Evidence | Identify skills knowledge behaviors interests constraints and evidence. |
capability.life.work-career-employability.research_roles_market |
Research Roles Market | Compare role content entry requirements demand compensation location access and progression. |
capability.life.work-career-employability.build_career_hypotheses |
Build Career Hypotheses | Generate plausible paths with gaps experiments risks and fallback options. |
capability.life.work-career-employability.prepare_application |
Prepare Application | Tailor accurate resumes profiles portfolios and cover materials to verified requirements. |
capability.life.work-career-employability.prepare_interview |
Prepare Interview | Practice evidence-based answers questions examples and logistics without fabrication. |
capability.life.work-career-employability.plan_workplace_success |
Plan Workplace Success | Clarify expectations communication feedback learning accommodations and performance evidence. |
capability.life.work-career-employability.support_transition_negotiation |
Support Transition Negotiation | Prepare offers pay workload flexibility departure and reskilling decisions with current data. |
Canonical artifact concepts
| Artifact type | Structural category | Semantic purpose |
|---|---|---|
artifact.life.work-career-employability.skills_and_evidence_map |
model | Skills And Evidence Map for Work, Career, and Employability Intelligence: A purpose-bounded representation of entities, relationships, assumptions, boundaries, and evidence of adequacy. It supports the pack purpose of support skills discovery, labor-market research, applications, interviews, workplace communication, development, negotiation, and career transitions. |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.role_research_brief |
brief | Role Research Brief for Work, Career, and Employability Intelligence: A bounded specification of purpose, stakeholders, requirements, constraints, assumptions, and success criteria. It supports the pack purpose of support skills discovery, labor-market research, applications, interviews, workplace communication, development, negotiation, and career transitions. |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.career_hypothesis_set |
hypothesis | Career Hypothesis Set for Work, Career, and Employability Intelligence: A falsifiable hypothesis record with rivals, predictions, disconfirming observations, assumptions, evidence, and decision consequence. It supports the pack purpose of support skills discovery, labor-market research, applications, interviews, workplace communication, development, negotiation, and career transitions. |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.gap_and_learning_plan |
plan | Gap And Learning Plan for Work, Career, and Employability Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support skills discovery, labor-market research, applications, interviews, workplace communication, development, negotiation, and career transitions. |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.application_package |
evidence_package | Application Package for Work, Career, and Employability Intelligence: A versioned evidence package with indexed contents, completeness state, recipient, approval, submission, retention, and revision controls. It supports the pack purpose of support skills discovery, labor-market research, applications, interviews, workplace communication, development, negotiation, and career transitions. |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.interview_plan |
plan | Interview Plan for Work, Career, and Employability Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support skills discovery, labor-market research, applications, interviews, workplace communication, development, negotiation, and career transitions. |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.workplace_development_plan |
plan | Workplace Development Plan for Work, Career, and Employability Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support skills discovery, labor-market research, applications, interviews, workplace communication, development, negotiation, and career transitions. |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.negotiation_brief |
brief | Negotiation Brief for Work, Career, and Employability Intelligence: A bounded specification of purpose, stakeholders, requirements, constraints, assumptions, and success criteria. It supports the pack purpose of support skills discovery, labor-market research, applications, interviews, workplace communication, development, negotiation, and career transitions. |
Method families and limits
| Method ID | Method | Use when | Avoid when |
|---|---|---|---|
method.life.work-career-employability.competency_and_evidence_mapping |
competency and evidence mapping | Use when a person must connect demonstrated capabilities to roles, market evidence, learning gaps, application materials, or interview decisions. | Avoid inventing accomplishments, relying on one job board or title, treating aggregate market data as a guarantee, or coaching deceptive responses. |
method.life.work-career-employability.labor_market_triangulation |
labor-market triangulation | Use when a person must connect demonstrated capabilities to roles, market evidence, learning gaps, application materials, or interview decisions. | Avoid inventing accomplishments, relying on one job board or title, treating aggregate market data as a guarantee, or coaching deceptive responses. |
method.life.work-career-employability.scenario_planning |
scenario planning | Use when material uncertainty cannot be represented credibly by one forecast and a decision must remain acceptable across plausible futures. | Avoid presenting scenarios as predictions, omitting adverse but plausible futures, or choosing a preferred scenario after seeing the result. |
method.life.work-career-employability.gap_analysis |
gap analysis | Use when a person must connect demonstrated capabilities to roles, market evidence, learning gaps, application materials, or interview decisions. | Avoid inventing accomplishments, relying on one job board or title, treating aggregate market data as a guarantee, or coaching deceptive responses. |
method.life.work-career-employability.structured_interview_practice |
structured interview practice | Use when a person must connect demonstrated capabilities to roles, market evidence, learning gaps, application materials, or interview decisions. | Avoid inventing accomplishments, relying on one job board or title, treating aggregate market data as a guarantee, or coaching deceptive responses. |
method.life.work-career-employability.negotiation_preparation |
negotiation preparation | Use when several people or institutions have different interests, rights, constraints, information, or acceptable outcomes and an agreement or safe boundary is needed. | Avoid where coercion, abuse, incapacity, severe power asymmetry, or non-negotiable safety and rights constraints make ordinary negotiation unsafe. |
Pack-specific invariants
The pack also inherits the core invariants in core/core_invariants.yaml.
| Invariant ID | Statement | Failure action |
|---|---|---|
invariant.life.work-career-employability.01_credentials_and_experience_are_never_fabricated |
Credentials and experience are never fabricated. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.work-career-employability.02_current_labor_data_and_role_requirements_are_dated_and_sou |
Current labor data and role requirements are dated and sourced. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.work-career-employability.03_protected_characteristics_are_not_used_for_discriminatory |
Protected characteristics are not used for discriminatory decisions. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.work-career-employability.04_legal_rights_and_regulated_occupations_are_verified_locall |
Legal rights and regulated occupations are verified locally. | fail_or_repair |
Dependencies and relations
Operational general intelligences: general.question-framing, general.creation-realization, general.validation-verification
Foundation concepts: general.learning-adaptation, general.communication-explanatory, general.decision, general.epistemic-evidence, general.collaborative-social
Life intelligences: life.learning-education-navigation, life.personal-finance-resilience, life.personal-organization-administration, life.accessibility-independent-living
Source roles
| Source ID | Claim roles | Runtime resolution required |
|---|---|---|
oecd.learning_compass |
competence_framework, concept_definition, evaluation_dimension | True |
ec.lifecomp |
competence_framework, concept_definition, evaluation_dimension | True |
local.authority |
jurisdiction_rule, runtime_fact, service_or_community_context | True |
Risk and authority boundary
Risk class: high
- Employment law discrimination dismissal immigration licensing or major contract questions.
- Severe workplace safety or harassment.
- Regulated-role credential or background-check requirements.
Accountable people retain consent, value, regulated, irreversible, and residual-risk decisions. This semantic page does not claim a deployed implementation.
Maturity
semantic: S3_reviewable_definition
contract: C3_testable_contract
implementation: I0_not_included
evidence: E2_source_roles_mapped
governance: G2_controls_and_review_defined
overlay: O2_paired_seed_complete
Paired overlay
Runtime maturity
- Capabilities: 7
- Technical floor→ceiling:
I1_runtime→I2_integrated - Autonomy floor→ceiling:
A0_assisted→A0_assisted - I1_runtime count: 6
- Evidence class:
contract: 6,semantic: 1 - Full hierarchy: MATURITY-HIERARCHY.md
Evaluation suite status
- CI status:
pass - Suite:
evaluation_suites/work-career-employability.yaml - Cases defined: 7
- Capabilities under test: 7