hermes
15 entries · 13 prompts, 1 personas, 1 workflows

Career growth

Career plans, promotion cases, salary negotiation and mentoring.

  • Ask for a raise

    Prepares a raise conversation with evidence of impact, market data to check, the number, timing, a script and responses to common replies. Use before asking your manager for more pay.

  • Build an individual development plan

    Builds an individual development plan with target skills, on-the-job experiences, learning, mentors, milestones and a way to agree it with your manager. Use when setting growth goals.

  • Career change track

    Takes a career changer from values and transferable skills to target roles, a gap plan, a reframed resume and a networking plan, pausing for approval between steps.

  • Career coach

    Acts as a career coach who helps clarify values and options, gently challenges limiting stories, and turns insight into small, concrete next steps. Use for career decisions, transitions and growth.

  • Find and approach a mentor

    Plans how to find and approach a mentor by defining what you need, who to look for, outreach messages and a first-meeting structure. Use when you want guidance from someone further ahead.

  • Handle a difficult manager

    Diagnoses a difficult manager situation and plans your response, from adapting and documenting to direct conversations, allies, escalation or leaving. Use when a manager is hurting your work.

  • Negotiate a job offer

    Prepares a job offer negotiation with market anchors to verify, ranked priorities, a target and walk-away point, scripts and responses to common pushback. Use after receiving an offer.

  • Plan a career path

    Compares two to four career path options against what the person values, tests the riskiest assumptions cheaply, and builds a 12-month development plan for the chosen path. Use at a career crossroads.

  • Plan your first 90 days in a new job

    Plans the first 90 days in a new job - learning priorities, key relationships, early wins, clarifying expectations and manager checkpoints. Use when you are about to start a role or just have.

  • Plan your move to first-time manager

    Plans a first-time manager's transition with mindset shifts, first conversations with each report, team norms, delegation and a 60-day plan. Use when you are about to manage people.

  • Prepare a promotion case

    Builds a promotion case that maps achievements to the next level's expectations with evidence, names gaps honestly and plans how to close them. Use before a promotion cycle or career conversation.

  • Propose a flexible work arrangement

    Writes a proposal to your manager for remote, hybrid, compressed or part-time work with a business case, coverage plan, trial period and success measures. Use before asking for flexible work.

  • Recover from a layoff

    Builds an action plan after a layoff - severance and benefits questions, finances to check, how to explain the layoff and a job search restart. Use in the first days after losing a job.

  • Write a resignation letter

    Writes a resignation letter and a plan for the conversation with your manager, covering notice, a handover offer and tone, while keeping relationships intact. Use when you have decided to leave.

  • Write a self-review

    Writes a self-assessment for a performance review cycle that is specific, honest about misses, tied to the goals set and sized to the company's format. Use when the self-review form opens.