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/expand - Competency Expansion from Documents and Online Presence

You are enriching the candidate profile by discovering competencies hidden in documents and public online presence. This command is additive only — it never modifies existing profile content, only extends it.

Follow these steps **exactly in order**. Do not skip steps.

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Step 0: Read Existing Profile Files

Read these two files in parallel before doing anything else. You must know what is already there so you do not propose duplicates.

• `.claude/skills/job-application-assistant/01-candidate-profile.md`
• `.claude/skills/job-application-assistant/02-behavioral-profile.md`

Hold this content in context throughout the command. Do not re-read these files later.

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Step 1: Discovery — Scan All Sources

Scan every available source for "experience items" — anything that implies skill, knowledge, or competency. Process sources in this order.

1a. documents/cv/

Read all files in `documents/cv/`. Extract:

• Every course or module listed (including university coursework and online courses)
• Every certification mentioned, with issuer and date
• Every job responsibility bullet point (tools, methods, outcomes)
• Every independent project or side project
• Every volunteer or extracurricular role

1b. documents/linkedin/

Read all files in `documents/linkedin/`. Extract:

• Courses and certifications in the "Licenses & Certifications" section
• Skills and endorsements list
• Volunteer experiences
• Projects section
• Any platform-specific items not already found in the CV

1c. documents/diplomas/

Read all files in `documents/diplomas/`. Extract:

• All course/module names listed on transcripts
• Thesis title and subject area
• Any specialisation or track name

1d. documents/references/

Read all files in `documents/references/`. Extract:

• Competency language used by the referee (what skills or qualities they mention)
• Any specific projects, tools, or methods named

1e. GitHub Profile

Look up the GitHub username from `01-candidate-profile.md`. If a GitHub URL or username is present:

1. Use WebFetch or WebSearch to retrieve the public profile and pinned repositories 2. For each repository found:

• Fetch the repository README
• Note: name, description, primary language(s), topics/tags, any frameworks or libraries mentioned in the README
• If the repository represents an independent technical project (not an empty stub or uncustomized fork), extract a project summary (problem domain, tech stack, and demonstrable technical results) for consideration under Independent Projects

3. Also retrieve the full repository list if available (to catch unpinned repos)

If no GitHub username or URL is found in the profile, skip this source and note it was skipped.

1f. Other URLs in Profile

Check `01-candidate-profile.md` for any other URLs (portfolio site, personal website, Kaggle, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, publication links). For each:

• Fetch the page
• Extract any tools, methods, datasets, awards, or skills mentioned

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Step 2: Web Enrichment

For each experience item discovered in Step 1, search the web to extract the competencies it implies. Apply both approaches below — do not choose one over the other.

Approach A: Direct lookup (explicit tools and frameworks)

If the item names a specific tool, framework, library, method, or platform, search for it directly:

• `"[Course name] [Provider] syllabus learning outcomes"`
• `"[Certification name] skills covered exam guide"`
• `"[Tool/framework name] skills what you learn"`

Fetch the most relevant page and extract the competency list.

Approach B: Inferred competencies (from description and context)

For each item, regardless of whether Approach A found anything, also reason from the description:

• What problem domain does this item address?
• What methods, skills, or knowledge does someone need to do this work?
• What is the standard toolchain for this kind of work?

Combine both approaches into a single competency list for each item.

Prioritise web lookup for:

• Named online courses (Coursera, edX, Udemy, LinkedIn Learning, DataCamp, fast.ai, etc.)
• Named certifications (AWS, GCP, Azure, Databricks, Tableau, etc.)
• University courses with a standard syllabus
• GitHub repositories with a README that names specific technologies

Infer (without web lookup) for:

• Generic job responsibility bullets with no named tool
• Vague project descriptions
• Reference letter language (already phrased as competency — just record it)

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Step 3: Build Competency Map

After enriching all items, build a deduplicated competency map. Group findings into these categories:

**Technical Skills — Primary** (core languages, frameworks, methods you use regularly) **Technical Skills — Secondary** (tools you have used but are not primary) **Domain Knowledge** (subject matter expertise: geophysics, ML, NLP, etc.) **Methods and Practices** (agile, version control, reproducibility, testing, etc.) **Soft / Behavioral** (leadership, communication, collaboration signals from references and project descriptions) **Independent Projects & Portfolio** (distinct technical projects from GitHub with problem domain, tech stack, and key technical milestone)

For each competency, record:

• The competency name
• The source item it came from (e.g. "Coursera — Deep Learning Specialisation", "GitHub — repo-name", "Reference letter — Jens Jensen")
• Whether it came from direct lookup (A), inference (B), or both

For each project, record:

• Project name
• One-line summary: problem tackled, tech stack used, and verifiable outcome/impact
• Source (e.g. "GitHub — repo-name")

Remove anything already present in `01-candidate-profile.md` or `02-behavioral-profile.md`.

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Step 4: Present Grouped Summary

Present all new competencies and project additions for the user's review before writing anything. Format:

## /expand found [N] new competency signals acros