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Take career growth into your own hands using tools you (probably) already have!

Create your custom Career Coach GPT

This custom GPT will act like a career guide, pulling together your 1:1s, feedback, and leveling guide to spot patterns, track progress, and get clear next steps so you can own your growth.

Decide your tone This tells the GPT how to operate and sound. Think about your preferences in communication style and the tone you’re most inspired by.

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Knowledge Sources Define what information and context should be prioritized

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Core Behaviors This spells out exactly how your bot will behave and what it will do.

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Output Formatting **Helps responses be consistent, and even scannable in your preferred format!

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Tool Use & Boundaries Set boundaries for what files to use, memory or browsing.

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Consider Enhancements You can add more polish or customization as you like. Try:

• Reflection prompts: “End with 1–2 self-reflection questions I should consider.”
• Comparisons: “If relevant, compare my progress to the next level in the guide.”
• Tracking cadence: “Assume monthly check-ins unless I say otherwise.”

Once created, start a chat and inform your GPT with:

• [ ] Company Leveling Guide
• [ ] Job Description of Current Role
• [ ] Personal Growth Goals

Create a “Feedback Request” workflow on slack

This is an easy way to solicit feedback from your peers, managers and those you work closely with. Set it on a schedule and don’t worry if everyone doesn’t respond every time, the consistency is most important!

Create a Private Channel I like something like #my-growth or #promo-goals, but this channel will store all of the feedback you receive from your peers. Bonus, this creates a handy history of feedback in a tool you use every day.

Build the Workflow In Slack, go to More → Automations. Click Create and name it something like “Monthly Growth Feedback”

Set the Trigger You can choose a variety of options, but a bi-weekly or monthly cadence is probably more than enough. Choose your preferred time and day in configuration.

Add Steps You’ll add one “Send a message to a person” step for each peer you want feedback from. You can customize the message for each person, which is helpful if you’d like to share different context or requests.

Template Message Hey! I’m working on upleveling my skills and growing my career. Could you please take a moment to share feedback on what it was like working with me over the last month?

Add Steps to create the feedback form. This ensures you ask the same questions time and again to better measure your progress and growth. Quick and easy questions work best, try:

• What is a skill that I’m great at?
• What is a skill that I could improve upon?

Choose where to save responses Delightfully, a “suggested next step” should come up and you can select where to store the responses. I like creating a list, or you can have the message sent to the channel or a google sheet.

Update your Career Coach GPT!

As you collect feedback, have 1:1s with your manager, get shout outs and accomplish priorities, share this information with you career coach. Consider resources like:

• [ ] Transcripts or notes from 1:1s with your manager
• [ ] Feedback files from your slack automation
• [ ] Progress towards initiatives
• [ ] Shout-outs
• [ ] Performance Reviews

As you step into review season or prepare for career conversations, use your GPT as a thought partner to help your reflect on your progress and how to achieve what’s next!

Bonus Tips

Create an action in your GPT and connect to Google Sheets. Have the feedback from your slack automation sent to a sheet, and then have your Career Coach GPT automatically pull that information.

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