The toolkit

Download

Not sure where to begin? The appendix of the book opens with a stage by stage checklist: which sheet, and when. Start there rather than at the top of the list below.

What is inside

Each file also downloads on its own.

Sheets

Open in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets. The first block is the one you fill in; the blocks below it are the rules.

• 01 · Criteria sheetch 2Before you open the first posting.
• 02 · Pipeline boardch 12The tracker, with the statuses, the closing rules, and the weekly review.
• 03 · Question librarych 8Thirty-five starter questions, in three layers.
• 04 · Speaking cardsch 9One card per question, plus the practice loop.
• 05 · Skill-gap ladderch 11When a posting lists a tool you have never used.
• 06 · AI evaluation packch 13Question buckets, judge checks, the comparison, and the run ledger.
• 07 · Offer checklistch 14When a verbal number arrives, before you answer.
• 08 · Interviewer worksheetch 10Twenty minutes on each person you are about to meet.
• 09 · Post-interview capturech 8The same evening, while you still remember the questions.

Prompts

Plain text. Paste into whichever model you use, then change them until they are yours.

• 01 · Morning scanch 4Every morning, before you read a single posting yourself.
• 02 · CV tailoringch 5After you decide to apply, before the audit.
• 03 · Interviewer researchch 10Once you know who is on the panel.

Tools

Nothing you type into either one is uploaded.

• Interview drillch 8, 9Your question library, sets for one interview, and practice out loud. Opens right here in your browser; it is also in the zip if you want it offline.
• CV auditch 5The mechanical half of the four-minute audit: banned words, page count, an old employer's name left behind, every number side by side. Drop your .docx on the page. Opens right here in your browser; also in the zip.

Comfortable with a terminal? The zip also holds a Python version of the CV audit with its config file, the drill's demo questions, and a small local server. They do the same jobs; nobody needs them.

Using the two tools

Interview drill. Open it here, in Chrome or Edge. The browser asks for the microphone once and remembers. Your library stays in your browser, and nothing you type is uploaded. If you answer out loud, the browser sends your voice to its speech service to turn it into text.

The copy in the zip works offline by double-clicking, but a file on disk cannot keep permission, so the browser asks for the microphone on every question. Typing works either way. Each copy keeps its own library: move questions between them with Export CSV and Import CSV.

CV audit. Open it here and drop your .docx on it. Your file is read inside the browser tab and never uploaded. Before the first run, replace the placeholder phrases with the ones you keep reaching for, and list every company you have tailored a CV for. The page remembers both.

For terminal users, the same checks in Python: edit tools/cv-audit.config.json, then python3 tools/cv-audit.py my-cv.docx. For the drill, python3 tools/serve.py serves it locally so the microphone is asked once.

Optional: hear when the prompts change

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