Plan a career change
Translates your experience to a new field, closes skill gaps, and manages the financial risk of switching.
The prompt
Help me plan a career change.
From: [CURRENT ROLE/INDUSTRY]
To: [TARGET ROLE/INDUSTRY]
Why: [MOTIVATION]
Transferable experience: [what I've done that's relevant]
Constraints: [savings runway, family, location, time to study]
Special situation (optional): [career gap, return to work, overqualified, age concerns]
Deliver:
1. Translation — how my experience maps to the target role, in the language that field uses.
2. Gap plan — skills or credentials needed, the fastest credible way to get each, and cost and time.
3. Story — a 3-sentence career-change narrative for interviews and LinkedIn (and how to address my special situation honestly).
4. Bridge options — hybrid roles, internal moves, freelance projects, or volunteering that reduce risk.
5. Financial risk check — runway needed and a decision checkpoint.
6. 12-week action plan.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- CURRENT ROLE/INDUSTRY
- TARGET ROLE/INDUSTRY
- MOTIVATION
- what I've done that's relevant
- savings runway, family, location, time to study
- career gap, return to work, overqualified, age concerns
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the RTF structure (Role, Task, Format). RTF tells the model who to be, what to do and what shape the answer should take. It is the quickest structure that still gives noticeably better results than a bare request.
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