What problem does it solve? Academic job candidates often misjudge how search committees read their files, scattering effort across low-impact activities while missing the objections that eliminate them. This Skill applies 22 operational rules distilled from Marc Kuchner's Marketing for Scientists to evaluate a candidacy the way a hiring panel actually does. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Diagnose mode: Reproduces the three-minute committee read of a CV, builds a gap table against target-tier expectations, runs an elimination audit of hostile-panellist objections, and delivers a verdict naming the single binding blocker. - Position mode: Produces one identity line with rejected alternatives, anchored on a home discipline for interdisciplinary candidates. - Plan mode: Generates a 90-day action table where every action carries real effort units, hiring impact, and a verdict including explicit skips, drawn from a ranked playbook of post archetypes, conference protocols, and referee cultivation sequences. - Review mode: Scores draft assets (CV top third, cover letter, research statement, bio, public post, talk abstract, job talk outline) against dedicated rubrics and returns numbered fixes with rewritten lines. - Use Case: A postdoc asks whether they are competitive for tenure-track positions in the UK; the Skill runs the diagnosis, identifies that grant eligibility is the binding blocker, and plans the 90 days around securing a named first-PI scheme. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to diagnose my academic CV against tenure-track positions at research-intensive European universities and tell me my binding blocker.
